Microsoft Surface RT Priced

If that Surface Pro pricing is accurate and they follow the same conversion rate they used for Surface RT (£1 = $0.80) then Pro should be £720 inc VAT for the 64GB and £799 inc VAT for the 128GB.

Those prices look very attractive to me indeed.
 
As I said ages ago I was hopping for 800 but thought it unlikely,900 most likely and 1000 would be pushing it. So I'm well happy. Although those prices don't include keyboard. So that adds is it 120 on?
 
DeathStorm said:
That's why they have 2 models, despite a similar experience they're two very different solutions.
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The way I see it, somebody in the market for a Surface Pro is after something that -

  1. Can be used as a tablet
  2. Is very mobile
  3. Is Win32 compatible
  4. Is high performance

In roughly that order. For me, a relatively short battery life really impacts those first two points both from an expectation and practical point of view.

Unless you absolutely need the CPU power and RAM, or just simply have your heart set on a Surface, I'd be seriously looking at the Lenovo Tablet 2.
 
The Lenovo is atom, so a totaly different device and as such isn't suitable.
You aren't going to run business apps, games or many othe apps on an atom.

Obviously, what we really need is haswell. That should give 10hours, but still need a big battery like the surface/w700.
 
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I hear where you're coming from, one of the reasons I settled on the Surface RT was the battery life and lower cost were more important to me than legacy software support but I do quite value the compact size with keyboard.

I can quite easily see myself getting a Surface 2 if they include the newer Atom's and they give 7+ hours battery life at a reasonable cost...
 
So did many people actually buy these?

Torn between this and the Nexus 7 for christmas, this obviously is a bigger screen and I quite enjoy the metro interface and can sync with my PC account.

On the other hand Nexus 7 can sync with my phone and I'm sure the gmail support etc. is much better and of course no gamepass app for windows yet :(

People who have them, it has been a month or so now, is it living up to expectations and as good as the competition?
 
Glaucus said:
The Lenovo is atom, so a totaly different device and as such isn't suitable.
You aren't going to run business apps, games or many othe apps on an atom.

Obviously, what we really need is haswell. That should give 10hours, but still need a big battery like the surface/w700.
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Really? So youd say the same for the Vivotab?

What kind of games can one expect to run run on the Surface Pro?
Surely Office apps should run ok on an Atom based tablet?
 
Cavallino said:
Really? So youd say the same for the Vivotab?

What kind of games can one expect to run run on the Surface Pro?
Surely Office apps should run ok on an Atom based tablet?
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Atoms are slow, you aren't going to run anything to demanding, so it depends what software you have. Atoms are only marginally faster than arms CPUs, but with far far worse gfx power.

Surface pro has intel 4000hd so you'll be able to run most games, albeit not at full details/res.

IMO
Win. Rt = iPad competitor
Atom - notebook replacement, slow but can do everything
Win pro(i3/i5/i7) - ultra book replacement/possibly desktop if you don't need top gfx.
 
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TBH the Atoms aren't as slow as many people make out. For normal desktop tasks they are just fine. The GPU part of the SoC is awful however. Don't expect to run any modern games at all.
Anand benchmarked the CT Atoms on 3DMark03 and they scored around the 2000 mark. To put that in to perspective, that's about the same as a GeForce 3 was getting back in the day.
 
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