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Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by cryptozeus »

sho_hn wrote: post #83

So they're not just going after the iPad, they're also going after the MacBook Air: The Intel version + Touch Cover was repeatedly shown with the regular desktop and apps on it, and generally spun as a sort of light laptop. Ambitious, and finally makes sense of their Metro/desktop combo OS strategy to a degree. The hardware to go along with it was a missing puzzle piece, and I guess shows just how important it can be…

Does the color of the windows and background changes to the color of the keyboard as soon as we attach it ? reply

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

endtime wrote: post #92
postfuturist wrote: post #36

This device doesn't look like it will work well in my lap. I use a 5 year old laptop that I'm pretty happy with. I have a tablet that I never use but that's mostly because I don't like touchscreen interfaces, except on phones where they are lesser of 2 evils (the other evil being super-tiny keyboards).

Unless you have a very short lap, why can't you do this? + + |ta| |kb| ---- Where the +s are your knees, "ta" is tablet, "kb" is keyboard, and the ---- is your waist.

I have no idea what that diagram is trying to convey.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by rodh257 »

kjhughes wrote: post #76

After 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 pr…

The RT version is 'HD' and the Pro is 'Full HD' so I'm guessing 720 and 1080.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by galenward »

mey wrote: post #80

While 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.

I don't buy the complaint about CPU or RAM - featuring specs is not the way things are done anymore.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by IanDrake »

My client has started outfitting their sales reps with ipads complete with covers that double as a stand. After a few weeks, they wanted keyboards, after keyboards they wanted a stylus.

Personally, I think MS nailed it. This could be just a tablet to some people, but it can be a whole lot more to the enterprise.

Now to see the pricing...

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by recoiledsnake »

bootload wrote: post #132

Just noticed from the Win8Pro version, "Pen with Palm Block" a nice innovation Apple hasn't bothered with yet. Question I want to know is, "can you develop" applications for the tablet, on the tablet?

>Question I want to know is, "can you develop" applications for the tablet, on the tablet?

Yes, on the Intel version, no on the RT tablet.

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by tempuser007 »

prezjordan wrote: post #96
dm8 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

A lot of people praise VS - I just don't see it. It's so bloated, so slow, and so ugly. It takes 60 seconds to open on my high quality workstation and it crashes if you click the mouse when you're not supposed to. Not my cup of tea.

Is it a high quality PC or some overrated super hyped Apple workstation ? Cause on my 3 years old PC with a new SSD I just blink and I can start typing code. If it has no SSD .. it's not high enough :D. Ugly, bloated ??? Omg, youtube.com/watch?v=G1iaVD-B2IA

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by rodh257 »

ja27 wrote: post #55

I just flashed back to Ballmer mocking the MacBook Air 4 years ago. I guess he did want one after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYcxvEfUikg

I'm not sure his shareholders would have loved it if he had of said that he thinks the MacBook Air is amazing and would love one of his own...

Re: Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet

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Post by DeepDuh »

photon137 wrote: post #81
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…

All-in-all, it's a big, big play on Windows 8/RT. A kernel that can perform optimally on ARM/Intel on mobile devices and also support PC devices is a huge achievement - the entire thread-library would have to be one super-cool piece of software engineering. That and elsewhere within the OS, is where the innovation lies, in my opinion. And now you can see why JavaScript was made a first-class language for the WinRT (n…

DOES it perform well though? And by that I mean things like native hardware video decompression without having too much impact on the battery, real-timeyness of the touch UI and overall low power consumption. These are IMO the underlying technologies where Apple innovated the most with their iOS platform and these metrics are yet to beat by others. Do we already have hands on tests with windows 8 on ARM? I at least haven't seen any.
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