Why the need to disassociate yourself from the decision of getting one with that last comment? Afraid of a little fanboy attack on the innerwebs from people you don't know?I actually had/have a Surface (don't worry it was a corporate xmas gift,didnt actually spend money on it.)
I truly, honestly, can't possibly see a reason why anyone would want a surface Pro over a MBA...even if one were to exclusively use Windows 8...as a wild saturday night activity, I installed windows 8 on my MBA and it ran extremely well with a reasonably high nova bench score at 550. The trackpad scrolling allows navigation via gestures, much like a touch screen would, without turning the screen into a layer of smudgy prints. Ironic that Microsoft's best product to run their OS is a Mac rather than Microsoft's own computer.
Bunch of people at my school all bought a new Surface , pwnd
Nobody wants a sort-of laptop that has no keyboard hinge. It's difficult to use on your lap. And the fact that the keyboard is sold separately (at a high price no less) makes it a no go for most customers. I'm not sure why Microsoft hasn't understood this yet.
Make a laptop with a Surface-inspired design, and I'm sure it would do much better. Microsoft's hardware quality is good, and their designs are attractive, but this form factor is bad.
And drop the RT. It is not going to sell, period.
Look, I just posted about how I think the Surface Pro is actually a good device, but now you're going to make me regret it. It's a really good device for portable pen-related work especially, but you can't compare tablets with that much price variance. If you want to compare an iPad you have to compare against the Surface RT. A base iPad is $500. A base Surface Pro is $900.
I can buy a Surface Pro for $899 or a iPad 4 128 GB for $799. I'd rather spend the $100 more for what I get.![]()
Well Apple stock fell about 5% when they announced the iPhone 5S and 5c...
The surface pro (2) is actually a great device
For students - specially for those who need to draw (design engineering etc).
I don't think it's that bad of a device
For anyone interested in an honest appraisal of the Surface tablets, the original line ranged from good (Surface RT) to excellent (Surface Pro). Today's announcements fix pretty much everything that was lacking.
I have both a Surface Pro and an iPad 3. As much as I've loved the iPad over the years, the Surface Pro is my go-to tablet. It's excellent for reading, and superb for video. XBox Music seems more usable at this point than iOS 7 music app. Overall I feel that Windows 8.1 is a better tablet OS than iOS 7, even before adding on a full Windows desktop. And it's all 64-bit, and build quality is equal to Apple.
Innovation? This is a refinement year for Surface, just as it has been for Apple, but anyone who says there's no innovation in Surface is just not looking. And, by the way, the music mix app and keyboard introduced today? Haven't seen anything like that on any platform. That was innovation, and completely unexpected.
The app store is sufficient at this point. A few big names are missing, but it meets all of my needs at this point. It passed 100,000 apps months ago, so dismissing Surface for "no apps" is just ridiculous.
As I develop an iPad app over the next few months, I'll almost certainly do some of my server-side work on my Surface Pro, because it can be a service platform (web and database) as well as a tablet.
I actually think that the arm model is good to keep. It allows Microsoft to change directions quickly if Apple decides to do OSX as an arm product in the future, or it allows them the ability to destroy Apple by making consumer windows arm only and have ridiculous battery life on a tiny device and have the same OS running on everything from PCs to phones to smart watches which is Apples ultimate desire. Really all it needs is an x86 emulator and for ARM cpus to be faster to power said emulator at reasonable speed (which will only take time and in fact they may already be powerful enough to do it now) and it could be fully functional to replace current windows for consumers similar to how Apple had to make a powerpc emulator to switch to intel in the past. If anything keeping Windows RT around could easily be what saves Microsoft and returns it to the market leader in the future. RISC just makes sense for consumer products, and Microsoft could keep standard x64 windows for enterprise