QOTW: Which Windows 10 devices might you actually buy?

[Otherhand]

Very tempted by the 950XL, especially knowing that it's compatible with the Surface pen (I'd use it for digital painting).

[edit] Not anymore, sadly! It looks like that's been cancelled... Maybe the next one http://www.windowscentral.com/what-h...ls-rumored-pen

The price makes it unlikely right now, but I have a 930 and those were almost as expensive when they first came out. Maybe I'll see a decent deal at CEX in the next year or so and I'll try a trade-in for my 930.

The Surface Pro, though. Also very tempting, as a painting machine, and I could use Photoshop on it properly.

[Otherhand]

Like wise, and price is a big thing.

The 950xl will roughly be £600, the 640xl is only £160 and will get Windows 10. £400+ difference for two devices that do 90% of things the same.

Also the surface pro's are amazing ,but £600 (inc keyboard), you can get devices from HP for £300 with lower specs, but again will do 90% of what the more expensive models do.

No doubt the products shown are amazing, beautiful and powerful, but are they too expensive?

The 950XL will only be that price at first direct from Microsoft, but it'll fall quickly. Plus there's been a great used/refurb market on eBay in recent years for Lumias (930 is about £160 for a good quality one, and they cost hundreds on release).

I wouldn't say they're 90% the same, although the 640XL is a fantastic budget phone, to the point that it feels wrong to call it "budget". Still, check out the hands-on videos demonstrating the 950XL camera! Obviously not everyone needs a superb camera, but that's a big draw for me, and the Camera app has some unique new functions that only work with the new hardware. Then there's the iris scanner, Continuum, the ability to expand up to 2TB (prohibitive prices now, but once those microSDs fall in price...), the battery capacity, the big 1440p screen, vastly better chips and RAM, USB C... plenty of reasons for me to upgrade, and I'm on the 930 now.

[Saracen]

Unless MS change tack (not holding my breath) I will buy a Win10 shortly after hell freezes over, and even then, only if it's hand-delivered by an ice-skating demon.

I'm sure the above won't surprise anybody that knows my views. I don't want, and moreover, won't have, Win10 in any implementation or device, even if that implementation or device is free.

[andreank]

As expected, the Start menu is the default if you use Windows 10 with a keyboard and mouse, though you can keep the full-screen Start screen if you prefer it. Even on the Start menu, you can pin Live Tiles in multiple sizes on the right, but on the left you also get the familiar list of pinned and recent applications, complete with jump lists for files, the search box that you can also use to run commands and a power button for shutting down or restarting your PC.

[nobodyspecial]

No plans for win10 ANYTHING. I hope vulkan kills it, period. DirectX is the only thing interesting in it to me, and I'll pass hoping for the other side to win so gaming can FINALLY get off windows dependency and more easily portable everywhere. I'm hoping that porting ease, will give devs more time to actually make games FUN, instead of just pretty these days with the occasional one that is FUN and pretty (which again, is usually SHORT also, which spoils the whole thing anyway). Win10 is like inviting a group of about a dozen spies into your house and each brings another dozen cameras he installs, all for the price of DX12 games. MSFT is severely overestimating my love of their platform even if my job will force me to learn win10 at some point (IT guy, but I'll be telling everyone to avoid it like the plague for home use). I can live with win7, but TBH I've been getting slower on the pc since XP64. Everything is more clicks to get the same crap done, now learning keyboard combos to get the same crap I had with a click in office 2007/2010 (2013 is just a mess) etc. Tired of MSFT killing my work productivity and messing with my life at home isn't making this IT guy happy either. I can't wait for Vulkan android/linux games

I've been putting off learning linux for a long time (no games, other apps not up to snuff back then), but Vulkan (and win10) may finally jazz me up enough to put in 50-100hrs of training to get some REAL idea of a possible job switch to the dark side (or is that joining the force? Walking to the light? LOL). Pay over there is actually better these days anyway if you put in the time and I don't have to go to a school to get it these days either I could easily see having a windows machine as my secondary system at home in a few years rather than primary I see all my MSFT certs looking at me rather nervously right now...ROFL.

[Corky34]

Personally i wouldn't use let alone buy any device with Windows 10 on it, and that goes equally for any device by Apple, Google, or other devices with data collection at their core, they may tell me their only doing it to offer me a more personalised experience, make my life easier, or any other reasons they care to think up, when it's not me collecting that data it's no longer personal.

If i wanted a personalised experience then it would be me doing the personalisation, if i wanted an easier life then it would be me putting the systems in place to make things easier, Personal Computer (PC) may not mean much to some people in the modern connected world but for me the "Personal" aspect is, should be, and will always come first and foremost.

[jnutt]

Will probably get a Surface pro 4 in Florida next year. My wife got a 3 last year and saved a ton of cash

[pastymuncher]

None. It's my data and mine only!! Stick their targeted advertising where the sun doesn't shine!!

[Freebo]

Im looking at getting 950XL and the Surface Book.

[lkarunan]

Very happy with my purchase of the Broadwell Dell XPS 13 DE this April. I've severed my ties with Windows on everything except my gaming desktop. Hoping that SteamOS / Steam on Linux will gain traction when steamboxes are released, so that I never have to use W10.

Sure the Surface Book & Surface Pro 4 have desirable hardware but I'm not paying for a device that ships with beta quality software that I have no real control over.

[phoenix198]

Have a Surface Pro 3, XBox One, ninja Windows 10 PC and a Lumia 640 now. A 950 or 950 XL and I'll be living the dream

[Presto86]

Surface Pro 4 maybe

[Mauley]

Either a Surface Pro 4 or a Surface Book

[wateva76]

I'd love to be able to get an i5 Surface Book with the nVidia GPU, but my priorities at the moment are replacing my Lumia 930 with a Lumia 950 XL (when they come out in Australia), and replacing my Xbox 360 with an Xbox One.

[Moogly]

I'm very happy with my Android phone. It's easy to modify the OS to suit your needs and I can get most everything I want on the Play Store for a minor price if not free. Windows needs to bring something very special both on the hardware and software front to get me to consider switching to their phones.

That being said, I like their lineup a lot more than I did a year ago.

[Moogly]

I'd love to be able to get an i5 Surface Book with the nVidia GPU, but my priorities at the moment are replacing my Xbox 360 with an Xbox One.

You have very good priorities. Gaming should come first.