Microsoft has a big event, announces new hardware and doesn’t announce price or availability?
I was surprised. Did they forget to mention about price and availability?
Poor PR from MSFT.
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
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#72"Unexpected error occurred." at http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ Not a good omen. (Edit: they fixed it.) Without having seen the product, I'd say that its fortunes will be based largely on its price point. They need to have a compelling offering in the $499 range, or this is going to be a blip on the iPad/Kindle Fire market.
Their site seems to be having problems right now, especially a certain iframe they have in the bottom left corner which times out every page load.
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#73How'd this get to #1 post so fast?
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#74I think it's pretty safe to say that this is Microsoft going all in on the consumer market. 1. Video doesn't really show anything but it is admittedly well made. 2. You have to actually download the tech specs. 3. The tech specs have little meaning. (At first glance what is ClearType HD Display, some sort of Retina?) It's like they took the apple philosophy even further. Not sure how I feel about this but I guess now…
>some sort of Retina? The power of Apple's marketing cannot be overstated here. You're referring to a Microsoft screen by an Apple trademark.
What other terms are there to use appart from specifics like resolution of DPI. There was HD and Full HD, but what does it make these new screens?
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#75They 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
If General Motors aired a commercial showing a stationary car, and some bouncing objects, my default reaction is not to go to a Chevrolet dealer to ask further questions. My default reaction is probably a non-reaction, which is to quickly forget what I just saw -- or more accurately, what I didn't see.
Come to think of it, perhaps General Motors is using a similar ad agency?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OfzaZcz9Q
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#76After 5 minutes of scanning their site, I still cannot find the display resolution of their offering, but I have found:
"Coming Soon."
"Images are design renderings and not photographs."
"1, 2 Actual size and weight of the device may vary due to configuration and manufacturing process"
Anyone find a better spec sheet than this one?
http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingasset...
Why can't Microsoft present normal details in an accessible manner?
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#77The Win8Pro version has about the same 42 W-h battery size as in the new iPad. I doubt it can manage the same battery life, especially if it has to have vents.
On the flip side, as it runs full Windows, it's also your laptop.
For reference, I can get ~6hrs out of my 13" MBA, which packs a 50Wh battery. Going to guess the Surface Pro is running a lower-clocked part (as the 11" does, presumably for heat reasons), so with good power-management software at least 6-7hrs doing tablet-y things is definitely plausible. Obviously, opening Visual Studio or Photoshop will constrain that a bit, but these are things one can't do on an iPad.
Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet
#78They 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…
Shut up and take my money ! live.theverge.com/microsoft-live-blog-tablet-announcement/
After you see the details, you can't but meditate.
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#79Microsoft has a big event, announces new hardware and doesn’t announce price or availability?
This is why I'm very skeptical about this.
They probably won't ship until the end of this year.
HP & Microsoft announced the Windows Slate tablet back in 2010 & it never made it to market.
http://gizmodo.com/5442200/hps-windows-7-slate-device-reveal...
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#80While a horrible launch approach (no price, no availability, no info on cpu or ram) I will be keeping my eye on this, and looking for a chance to test drive in a brick/mortar.
This could become an amazing travel device, but not holding my breath.