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More competition to Apple/Android is good for us. I'm surprised such a techy crowd isn't jumping on the opportunity to try out new tech. I just pre-ordered mine and I'm stoked!
I applaud Microsoft for doing something new-- the new windows UI is very original. Further, they have managed to meet Apple in terms of pricing for a comparable iPad, something others have struggled with. But the big take-away innovation here, and the center of their marketing campaign, is that it has a keyboard cover. This seems to be about 5 years out of sync. 5 years ago, everyone expected the iPhone to fail becau…
> But after I got my first iPad, the original, I found that I could type at nearly the same speed Speed is certainly one issue, but the ergonomics of typing for an extended period favor separate screen and keyboard components. I too use a table for typing and while I'm pretty quick at it, I can't find a comfortable position that lets me do this for more than half an hour at a time. For this reason alone, the inclusio…
It's also what you're used to. Some people can T9 pretty darned fast because of experience.
What is the resolution?
But the flip side of that is most of the Windows 8 interface is rectangles with large type. You don't need very high resolution devices to make that style of interface look crisp and sharp.
I think this is the nail on the already-likely-dead coffin of MS Surface. What's the market they are going after??? "tablet market"? nope - already dominated by iPad "enterprise"? nope - 1) not a market, 2) already dominated by iPad "budget"? nope - priced on par with iPad seriously, how are they going to push this thing? they don't have a channel like Apple nor Amazon, so they need to rely on all their other paths.…
Seriously, the tablet market is still wide open. having an iPad3, iOS is only good for a small portion of things I would like a Tablet can do
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> they have managed to meet Apple in terms of pricing for a comparable iPad No 3G / LTE.
I don't think the $500 iPad has 3G?
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I think this will sell well into markets that are heavily invested in microsoft infrastructure These are the Windows RT tablets (ARM-based). Presumably a lot of Windows x86 software won't have ARM versions, so I'm not sure these will be popular even among the Microsoft shops.
Corporate road warriors that need to access the same Office systems the rest of the home-base grunts use.
(For all I know, it might still be the best available word processor for tablets; I have never used Apple's "Pages"; but previous versions were ... lacking)
Does anyone know if this can be used for development and graphics editing? Or if it will run Windows Desktop apps? I could almost see something like this replacing my everyday work computer.
Who want this? http://www.microsoft.com/global/en-us/news/publishingimages/...
There was a lot of buzz around the cyan version of the new Nokia Windows Phone 8.
Does anyone know if this can be used for development and graphics editing? Or if it will run Windows Desktop apps? I could almost see something like this replacing my everyday work computer.
What you are looking for is Surface Pro which will be available in a few months. Or you could buy any one of the Windows 8 (not Windows RT) convertible tablets/hybrids that will be available from the likes of Lenovo, HP, Acer, Asus, Samsung, etc after Windows 8 launches.