Wired's Review of the Microsoft Surface
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#2Well all the speculation can be put to rest, the keyboard cover works and fantastically.
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#322 paragraphs before getting into what the thing actually does.
22 paragraphs dominated by nobody noticing it, the kickstand is pretty good, and at first coerced glance people prefer iPads.
Then it gets into what the tablet isn't: Windows as you know it.
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#4> Yes, you can use it as your only computer. I would never have made that claim about an iPad or Android tablet. But if you only need to live in Microsoft Office and the web and e-mail, and use your computer for media consumption, you’ll do great with this.
So an "only computer" requires Microsoft Office, everything else is negotiable.
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#5The review starts out comparing the Surface to the iPad, saying both are better and worse than the other in different ways. But then the review goes on the trash almost everything unique to the Surface. It sounds like a rather splendid failure. I doubt we will be talking much about this product in 2-3 years.
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#6Yeah, it would be nice for tablet diversity but it still feels like it doesn't know what it wants to be... haven't used it yet though so I'd be willing to be swayed.
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#7Well all the speculation can be put to rest, the keyboard cover works and fantastically.
It sounds like it just works. And after "[struggling] mightily with typos and finger placement for the first 24 hours". Who's going to put up with that?
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#8The review starts out comparing the Surface to the iPad, saying both are better and worse than the other in different ways. But then the review goes on the trash almost everything unique to the Surface. It sounds like a rather splendid failure. I doubt we will be talking much about this product in 2-3 years.
That's not the conclusion I came away with. He wrote at the end "this is a great device." Obviously the jury's out on whether or not this thing will actually sell (and thus be worth talking about 2-3 years from now), but he clearly doesn't conclude that Surface is a failure.
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#9Well all the speculation can be put to rest, the keyboard cover works and fantastically.
It sounds like it just works. And after "[struggling] mightily with typos and finger placement for the first 24 hours". Who's going to put up with that?
Someone that just spent $600 on a new tablet is probably gonna be just fine spending a few hours getting used to a new keyboard.
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#10> Yes, you can use it as your only computer. I would never have made that claim about an iPad or Android tablet. But if you only need to live in Microsoft Office and the web and e-mail, and use your computer for media consumption, you’ll do great with this. So an "only computer" requires Microsoft Office, everything else is negotiable.
For 90% of the working world, I'd say that is a true statement. I personally need compilers and geeky utilities, but my boss could probably get by with a browser and a copy of MS Office just fine. My bosses boss definitely could.