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I find it funny that it seems that Microsoft will actually deliver on this promise before Ubuntu gets a chance to.

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There is a third bq phone with Ubuntu expected in 2015. That phone will be the convergence phone.

That device. Snappy Unity convergence in the pocket ! I will drop my BQ E4.5 for that !

To be honnest I have no idea if Microsoft Continium or any player will release something like that in 2015, any news ?

Microsoft's docking just runs the desktop UI of their universal apps, as far as I know. You won't get the full win32 desktop with the ability to run Visual Studio.

UI-wise it'll look similar to the average user, but it's a pretty different approach.

To be honest, as a Surface Pro 2 User, even with 8GB Ram in Phones becoming theoretically possible, i don't think i'd actually want to compromise any further down for my development environment ressourcewise.

I'm in the same boat. I picked up a bottom-model Surface Pro 3 during a startup liquidation and I'm pretty happy with it for VS2015, but I definitely agree that there's not much more "down" to go.

Agreed. I'm also on a SP3 (but the i5 version), and I wouldn't want to try doing serious work in a desktop environment on a cell phone processor.

Maybe things will change in a few years as ARM/Snapdragon/etc processors continue to improve and phones get more memory, but for the time being I think MS's approach to phones + large monitors is preferable.

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