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Microsoft Announces New 'Surface' Tablet, New Hardware and Software Based on Windows 8
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for those that questioned my low price on this tablet
$450 is about all I would pay for a MS tablet, I know it won't be that cheap just listed what I would pay for it.
Still the keyboard in the cover is a great idea as are the processors/storage, but seriously if I need a full blown computer, and I might now, I'll just go with an MBA.
The iPad is a great content tool and will help me in my classes, but it won't be in lieu of a laptop and/or my iMac. I suspect the Surface tablet might be a little bit more helpful for many students.
$450 is about all I would pay for a MS tablet, I know it won't be that cheap just listed what I would pay for it.
Still the keyboard in the cover is a great idea as are the processors/storage, but seriously if I need a full blown computer, and I might now, I'll just go with an MBA.
The iPad is a great content tool and will help me in my classes, but it won't be in lieu of a laptop and/or my iMac. I suspect the Surface tablet might be a little bit more helpful for many students.
Probably. But Apple has always announced specific timeframes, many of them same-day. At least those nutjobs can point to a date.Doesn't this happen here whenever a new Apple product is announced?
Not with iOS and definitely not a completely unresponsive system. Also if you watch the part just before the crash, Sinofsky repeatedly fails to do a gesture while saying how smooth/easy it is. (Here's the direct link to that part, followed by the crash) How can executives not fully rehearse for this kind of thing?
Please stop making practical uses for a built in keyboard that is optional to use.
Wonder if the Intel version will have sufficiently standard PC hardware so that it can run Linux or if Microsoft plans to lock it down using UEFI secure boot.
This thing + Linux/FreeBSD would be a nice portable laptop like device.
Unfortunately that's the case:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/shuttleworth-on-ubuntu-linux-fedora-and-the-uefi-problem/11270
(Apologies if someone wrote about this before)
Since the case fits right on and flips back too, it will always be available if you want it. That means even if you want to type a forum post at your desk you can just flip it forward and type it.
Except this wasn't a hand-on article from a tech blog but a fully prepared presentation given by the company. That's why you rehearse the heck out of it.
If it's something to do with the wireless network that's understandable because sometimes it's just impossible to control. But this was just a poor preparation on Microsoft's part. Then again, I begin to think being awkward is in Microsoft's marketing gene.
Don't know whether someone posted the pic already, I am not going to read all the 1900 posts but
1. Not to scale.
2. Can you fold a laptop keyboard behind the laptop body?
3. Do most laptops have touchscreens?
4. Do most laptops weight as light or lighter than a tablet?
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Wait until the Vizio laptop/PC's are released.
You'll see a new record for posts.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2405900,00.asp
Nearly 2000 posts. Microsoft must be really desperate for this to be a success for them to send out so many trolls onto all the Apple message boards. I don't know why they bothered, I wouldn't have thought Apple fans would be their target audience. I wonder if Monkey Boy will get the axe if this thing tanks.
I've used (or should that be endured) Microsoft products for many years until I just got so fed up with them that I made the switch to Mac when I started my own business. I'm certainly not going to move back now.
So go ahead MS trolls. It won't make any difference. People will make their own mind up. In a few months they will go into their local electronics shop, pick up the Surface and play with it then compare it to the iPad and decide. My guess based on previous experience is that most of them will continue to chose the iPad.
I've used (or should that be endured) Microsoft products for many years until I just got so fed up with them that I made the switch to Mac when I started my own business. I'm certainly not going to move back now.
So go ahead MS trolls. It won't make any difference. People will make their own mind up. In a few months they will go into their local electronics shop, pick up the Surface and play with it then compare it to the iPad and decide. My guess based on previous experience is that most of them will continue to chose the iPad.
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Last time they failed to generate much buzz, seeing how there's 307 comments on the news item, and the Vizio story is integrated into a bundle of different announcements from CES :
https://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/0...gorilla-glass-vizio-windows-phone-ultrabooks/
What are the chances Microsoft does something radical, like sell the Surface for some ridiculously low price like $100-200, and they try to make all the money on app sales?
Kinda like how Xboxes and Playstations are sold for losses but they make it up big time in the game sales.
Kinda like how Xboxes and Playstations are sold for losses but they make it up big time in the game sales.
What are you talking about ? Seems to me the nearly 2000 posts is people bashing this. Why would Microsoft send out "trolls" to bash their products ?
To me, it looks more like some kind of insecurity on the part of the more "hardcore" Mac user base.
Its actually a great video, its an introduction to a new product. like it or not for 99% of people they base 1st impressions on looks alone.
Wow, my iPad has never crashed or hung doing simple things like web browsing.
Keyboard...so what?
I don't get the hype about the keyboard...they've had keyboards for the ipad pretty much since day one. Android and windows devices always tout features that iOS doesn't have (and yes, there are many bells and whistles missing from iOS), but iOS and the iPad will never be beat until android and windows devices have the BASICS...simple media syncing between all devices, an interface that doesn't lag with every touch, long battery life, and reliability.
I don't get the hype about the keyboard...they've had keyboards for the ipad pretty much since day one. Android and windows devices always tout features that iOS doesn't have (and yes, there are many bells and whistles missing from iOS), but iOS and the iPad will never be beat until android and windows devices have the BASICS...simple media syncing between all devices, an interface that doesn't lag with every touch, long battery life, and reliability.
Not sure if this was meant as good or bad, but IMO it's VERY good. Apple talked a big game about the post PC era, but all they did was add a device to the PC world, not replace anything. The surface truly looks like it will help usher in a post PC era.
I don't currently own a Windows machine, so I might pick up a pro version to have something around just to have something to use Windows software on (games and such) and to have as a backup PC. A lot of it depends on reviews and how good the product is, but at least Microsoft gets some credit for trying something interesting.
Mine crashes occasionally. What it does more often is load webpages with lots of graphics on them VERY slowly, some websites don't even load any of the graphics. It's an ipad3, and my ipad2 seems like it loaded webpages much much faster for some odd reason. The web browser does crash a LOT if I'm loading 2 or 3 tabs and one of the pages is graphics intensive.
I've followed this enormous thread over the last couple of days with amusement. Some (somewhat obvious) observations:
* A lot of people on this thread seem to be very interested in a tablet-ish netbook-ish form factor for running Windows (full blown or otherwise). Obviously, for those folks, this will be the product to get, though with unknowns like RAM it remains to be seen how well the "pro" version will perform - but time will tell.
* It's clear that the big selling points seem to be the storage, keyboard and the ability to run Win 8. While I'm not in the market for a Windows solution for anything in particular, definitely hoping to see Apple step up with at least more storage on their next iPad variant. Keyboard isn't that interesting to me based on how I use my iPad.
Microsoft (in my opinion) has in the past struggled with execution and also with a focused vision. We'll see how they do here. If they can actually execute, Windows users will have a worthy device to use. But like in the Canon / Nikon wars in which I participate and where the manufacturers leap-frog spec-wise, there's nothing so enticing that I'd see "jumping ship". I like iOS and Mac OS X a great deal and one of the few people brave enough to say I like the direction of both.
Would I add one of these to my arsenal? Maybe, just maybe for work - it still tends to be Windows based but that said, there are a lot of other toys in the lineup ahead of that (more centered on those pesky Canon / Nikon wars and a new rMBP)
* A lot of people on this thread seem to be very interested in a tablet-ish netbook-ish form factor for running Windows (full blown or otherwise). Obviously, for those folks, this will be the product to get, though with unknowns like RAM it remains to be seen how well the "pro" version will perform - but time will tell.
* It's clear that the big selling points seem to be the storage, keyboard and the ability to run Win 8. While I'm not in the market for a Windows solution for anything in particular, definitely hoping to see Apple step up with at least more storage on their next iPad variant. Keyboard isn't that interesting to me based on how I use my iPad.
Microsoft (in my opinion) has in the past struggled with execution and also with a focused vision. We'll see how they do here. If they can actually execute, Windows users will have a worthy device to use. But like in the Canon / Nikon wars in which I participate and where the manufacturers leap-frog spec-wise, there's nothing so enticing that I'd see "jumping ship". I like iOS and Mac OS X a great deal and one of the few people brave enough to say I like the direction of both
. Would I add one of these to my arsenal? Maybe, just maybe for work - it still tends to be Windows based but that said, there are a lot of other toys in the lineup ahead of that (more centered on those pesky Canon / Nikon wars and a new rMBP
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