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Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by mattiask »

bosch wrote: post #38
mattiask wrote: post #33

I'm actually a Windows user (although I own an iPad), but you have to be a bit humored by all this. As usual where Apple has used a feather Microsoft have used the whole chicken with keyboards, screws, different versions, the whole enchilada. I'm only surprised there's no stickers. "ClearType display"? really, you felt you had to brand it just to compete with "Retina display". Despite all this the tablet might actual…

You mean how like Apple was so original with an MP3 player?

I'm not going into an originality discussion, certainly that argument has been made thousand of thousand times on forums all over the internet.

Very few companies are truly original. Even fewer are successful while being truly original. But having the guts to go all in, be consistent and going that little extra mile will get you pretty far.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by yottabyte47 »

JennyKim wrote: post #48
ericdykstra wrote: post #47

If this lives up to the promise, it will definitely replace my netbook. This looks like something that will perform well as a tablet for apps and light internet usage, and is an easy form-factor to take to a coffeeshop for some hacking or writing as a netbook replacement. EDIT: Why downvote ?? I don't care about the points, just curious if you are MS haters or something.

Don't worry, it's made by Microsoft, so it will suck.

Windows Phone 7 isn't bad.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by dm8 »

JennyKim wrote: post #48
ericdykstra wrote: post #47

If this lives up to the promise, it will definitely replace my netbook. This looks like something that will perform well as a tablet for apps and light internet usage, and is an easy form-factor to take to a coffeeshop for some hacking or writing as a netbook replacement. EDIT: Why downvote ?? I don't care about the points, just curious if you are MS haters or something.

Don't worry, it's made by Microsoft, so it will suck.

Haven't you tried XBox, Kinect, Office, Visual Studio?

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by WrkInProgress »

MrFoof wrote: post #7

They have a video on the main page. The video is a minute long. They have asked for my attention for a minute. In that minute, they have not told me anything about what the Surface can do for me, and why I should care about it. I'm absolutely baffled by that. Yes, I might know what it is, and have some idea about what it can do, but if this was a television commercial, I'd bet money that such a campaign would be a qu…

Maybe this is just a teaser video. It certainly seems that way. They are revealing the product right now .....

Look at the video they have for the consumer preview of Windows 8 ... it's more in the vein of what you are talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM5pFkNQ7no&feature=plcp

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by nickbarnwell »

ericdykstra wrote: post #47

If this lives up to the promise, it will definitely replace my netbook. This looks like something that will perform well as a tablet for apps and light internet usage, and is an easy form-factor to take to a coffeeshop for some hacking or writing as a netbook replacement. EDIT: Why downvote ?? I don't care about the points, just curious if you are MS haters or something.

I'm very excited by the i5 packing version with DisplayPort out; being able to take the same device from your bedside table to reading on the train to cranking out code at work is the Star Trek-esque vision of computing I've had in my head since I was a toddler, and it's nice to see it finally starting to come to fruition.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by jsz0 »

2012 is the year third party OEMs start to go extinct. First (and always) Apple, now Microsoft, soon Google/Motorola. There may be some niche markets left over for third party OEMs but otherwise I think they're done. No wonder HP wanted out of the PC industry. Maybe they knew something we didn't?
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