okay this week was pretty slow in terms of new releases we got sort of budget and entry-level phones from poco called to the mNUMBER_TOKEN pro and from nokia called the xNUMBER_TOKEN which is a NUMBER_TOKEN phone for the us market and also some sick looking headphones for the cult audio brand grado called the rsNUMBER_TOKENx and rsNUMBER_TOKENx reference series that cost twice or three times as much as the aforementioned phones to see all of the new releases of the week as well as their details you can head over to the crowd app which is linked down in the description okay the first big story of the week is microsoft announcing a brand new version of windows called windows NUMBER_TOKEN se and a new laptop to go with it called the surface laptop se and can i just start by saying that i hate this name i mean se it's clearly a lazy clone of the iphone se naming scheme microsoft even went on record and said it doesn't mean anything it doesn't mean student edition or special edition or anything it's just a lazy clone get better microsoft anyway this new operating system version is basically student edition it is aimed specifically at kids in school until they are about NUMBER_TOKEN years old and while microsoft tried to hype it up as some major new thing i really don't think it is it appears to be the exact same operating system as windows NUMBER_TOKEN at its core and unlike previous versions like windows NUMBER_TOKEN s or windows NUMBER_TOKEN x this can technically run all the same apps in the same way as regular windows and it isn't tied to microsoft store either just some currently unknown app approval process the only differences are that it comes pre-installed with education software like flipgrid and office more complicated parts of the operating system such as the my computer area and the file explorer are hidden from the user apps now default to opening full screen and have limited snapping options and the whole system supposedly has some performance optimizations for low end hardware although microsoft has suspiciously given zero actual details on that so i'm very skeptical about the claims my guess is that the only real performance tweak is that since most apps will run full screen or at most in split screen most users will only want to use one or at most two apps at the same time so that should improve performance but we'll have to wait and see anyway the surface laptop ascii is a very affordable NUMBER_TOKEN dollar machine with a plastic build a cheap looking NUMBER_TOKEN inch non-touch tft screen and an intel celeron processor that sounds painfully slow but it's supposed to have an above average keyboard great repair ability and should come with office and stuff pre-installed which would presumably make this worth the very aggressive price tag we're told that other device makers will also release windows NUMBER_TOKEN se based laptop soon and obviously all of this is an attempt at clawing back market share from chrome os which has exploded in popularity in schools where it is now easily the market leader in countries like the us i'm not actually convinced that microsoft has done a whole lot to make this a truly competitive offering against chrome os since this is basically just windows NUMBER_TOKEN but we'll have to wait and see okay and the second story of the week will be youtube announcing that they're now officially going to hide the dislike counter the button itself will still exist and the video owner will still be able to see the ratio somewhere hidden in their back end but the public will
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