In fact, the Democrats made their strategy clear: unless we all play nice with one another, everyone is going to get hurt.
We were told to play nice in the sandbox and good things would happen in our careers.
Of course, we already knew the iPod would play nice with Sync, and while it doesn't specify if each individual DAP that you cram in this thing will have its own interface to display ID3 tags and the like, it sure seems that the major ones will.
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Setting up was a breeze -- no software was required on either our MacBook Pro or ThinkPad T410S. Of course, while the plug and play ability is nice, we did wish there was software for customizing the scroll wheel shortcuts (USB Overdrive let us do that with no issue on our Mac, however).
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But it would be nice if, as we continue to play the budget game, we could at least agree on a way to keep score.
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Otherwise, we were left to play with a Japanese iteration of Windows 8, which seemed nice and responsive in both tablet and notebook setups, although our playtime was limited.
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We got the chance to play with a pre-production model and it's nice.
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This is a bit unusual but we had the chance to practice in these surroundings and I thought it was very nice to play in.
Of course, iTunes video is still wrapped in DRM, so we'll see if DVD Jon has any tricks left up his sleeve to make it play nice with non-Apple devices, but for a first shot out of the gate it looks like extremely promising -- too bad it's Mac-only for now.
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We'll be keeping an eye on you, Amazon -- so let's try and play nice for now on.
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Of course, managing to play nice with every single powerful handset in the world would be a monumental challenge, and we're still a ways off from having a true laptop-replacing cellphone, but we'd wager that this here invention is certainly not a bad one to have on the drawing board.
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Of course, none of this is final, and it's all subject to change, but its was certainly nice to actually use the OS to launch and play a game -- now all we need is a real device with a final OS and we'll be able to form some real impressions.
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For example, the beta version we took for a spin was only compatible with the Xbox 360, but the final product is set to play nice with the PS3, PC and Wii U, in addition to next-gen consoles via a software update.
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