Microsoft Surface

[leemajors]

I wondered why they didn't make a 16gb one. Now I know why. On reddit they said with apps the os and office installed it takes up 12 gigs.

if true that's a damn good reason not to get one at 32 or 64.

[CuckingFunt]

too much for the RT. I will watch and see how it develops.

Yeah that was my thought, who knows how expensive the intel ones will be

I completely skipped that detail when I was looking over the article. That definitely changes my level of interest.

[mingus]

why would you buy a surface at that price point when you could just get a nice laptop with a much bigger hdd?

Because of the portability to go along with and touch screen. Those weigh heavily for me.

[leemajors]

Good info on Surface here:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/17/3...tore-employees

RT does not have a full version of Office, or Legacy App support i.e. anything coded to run on x86/64 - no backwards compatability.

[leemajors]

Verge Review:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/23/3...surface-review

7.0

[DJ Mbenga]

potential unrealized so far is the consensus. ny times was more apt. the hardware is amazing, drool worthy. then the software, and they get depressed.

[Trainwreck2100]

Been meaning to ask this for awhile. Has there ever been a worse commercial to launch a product? those dancing schoolgirls look angry as too

[leemajors]

Surface Pro will have half of the Surface battery life:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/29/3...attery-life-rt

[koriwhat]

Acer's CEO talks more about Surface:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/07/a...about-surface/

acer has made ty products since day 1, wtf are they to say anything? my first computer, not the first in the house, back in the 90's was an acer and that pos was just that, a pos! i doubt they've gotten any better since. that's like emachine thinking they have any clout.

[baseline bum]

Been meaning to ask this for awhile. Has there ever been a worse commercial to launch a product? those dancing schoolgirls look angry as too

This was pretty awful

[lefty]

acer has made ty products since day 1, wtf are they to say anything? my first computer, not the first in the house, back in the 90's was an acer and that pos was just that, a pos! i doubt they've gotten any better since. that's like emachine thinking they have any clout.

I bought an Acer desktop in 2006

It died in 2009



Acer

[koriwhat]

I bought an Acer desktop in 2006

It died in 2009



Acer

that's a pretty good run for an acer... pretty damn impressed.

[leemajors]

64GB Surface Pro will have 23GB usable space:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/39...pace-windows-8

[TDMVPDPOY]

overpriced for that piece of , u can build one cheaper than that...look at the htpcs and low energy builds u can build...or even the rasberry

[leemajors]

go ahead, build a tablet.

[ElNono]

64GB Surface Pro will have 23GB usable space:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/39...pace-windows-8

More stupid engineering... smh

Why not include a separate 32gb 'recovery' pendrive with the package instead?

[Cry Havoc]

64GB Surface Pro will have 23GB usable space:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/39...pace-windows-8

That's absurd.

However the backup par ion is probably like 10 gigs.

[leemajors]

That's absurd.

However the backup par ion is probably like 10 gigs.

Completely absurd they couldn't get it down under 15. I think a full Mountain Lion install is somewhere around 5GB.

[Cry Havoc]

Completely absurd they couldn't get it down under 15. I think a full Mountain Lion install is somewhere around 5GB.

To be fair, Windows is a lot more compatible with multiple devices.

[leemajors]

To be fair, Windows is a lot more compatible with multiple devices.

Very true. Just really surprised they coulndt cut some fat with their flagship product.

[ElNono]

To be fair, Windows is a lot more compatible with multiple devices.

Uh? This is a tablet. You don't need any major drivers other than possibly just mass storage.

Plus it's a connected device. Have it download any weird driver after the base OS installation.

The bloat comes from the built-in apps + backups of said apps on the restore par ion.

[leemajors]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/20/40...ominate-volume

After describing Surface as a "design point" to "prime the pump" and "sell a few million," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is describing the company's tablets as a "real business" this week. In a brief interview with MIT technology Review, Ballmer avoids answering Surface sales questions, but says he's "super-glad" Microsoft did the Surface as it's important for the Windows ecosystem. "Surface is a real business," says Ballmer. "In an environment in which there’s 350 million PCs sold, I don’t think Surface is going to dominate volume, but it’s a real business."

[bluebellmaniac]

64GB Surface Pro will have 23GB usable space:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/39...pace-windows-8

I predict a class action lawsuit for false advertising on the usable storage for the Surface...

[Brunodf]

So who bought the microsoft surface?Is it worth?

[Trainwreck2100]

Nobody has bought this piece of