Microsoft Surface RT Priced

Showed the miss the surface today, and she was like it looks really nice but if it didn't have the apps she needed it was DOA for her atleast. Having Office was a plus thou.
 
Fallen god said:
Showed the miss the surface today, and she was like it looks really nice but if it didn't have the apps she needed it was DOA for her atleast. Having Office was a plus thou.
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It would be interesting to know what apps she considered ones she needs. As has been pointed out here already a lot of people use the total number of apps available as evidence to say it won't have any apps so will suck. But when you actually look at the apps people really want (email, office, Facebook, twitter and a web browser) they are all available.
 
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It would be interesting to know what apps she considered ones she needs. As has been pointed out here already a lot of people use the total number of apps available as evidence to say it won't have any apps so will suck. But when you actually look at the apps people really want (email, office, Facebook, twitter and a web browser) they are all available.
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The app count was a factor but being a huge instagram, flipboard (other news ones not 100% sure) and playing all those random fun games most of which she couldn't find or cost just so much on windows right now. And she has a iPad3 right now, but I'm almost sold on the surface personally.
 
They will likely be on Windows soon.

Its far to easy for people to just point at the number of apps and use that as a reason, but they are forgetting 2 things. Firstly 99% of the apps in the iOS and Android markets are complete garbage, and both those markets had hardly any apps in them at one point. Obviously early adopters are going to have to wait for some apps to come along, but assuming W8 is a success (which I think it will be, at least for RT tablets, Pros I'm not yet convinced), the number of available apps is only going g to grow, and grow fast.
 
Skeeter said:
They will likely be on Windows soon.

Its far to easy for people to just point at the number of apps and use that as a reason, but they are forgetting 2 things. Firstly 99% of the apps in the iOS and Android markets are complete garbage, and both those markets had hardly any apps in them at one point. Obviously early adopters are going to have to wait for some apps to come along, but assuming W8 is a success (which I think it will be, at least for RT tablets, Pros I'm not yet convinced), the number of available apps is only going g to grow, and grow fast.
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I hear you, but those are the one she used the most so its like whats the point of giving up your iPad for something less functional at this point at least. Personally I will get the surface I think (if not a N7) and I'm sure she will love the UI, I think thats one thing MS has going for it, its a really nice UI to get **** done. Apps shouldn't be a problem, if people actual use the metro apps on desktop (I wont for the most part) then they have a huge install base ever seen.

I know its an excuse but right now its a problem, and the idea of huge market place is that most of the time you could just search for anything and it would come up, any random kinda of app that you will use once xD. I personally think its more of a insecurity that omg, I wont have any apps to download from, what is my smartphone useful for then.
 
Fallen god said:
I hear you, but those are the one she used the most so its like whats the point of giving up your iPad for something less functional at this point at least. Personally I will get the surface I think (if not a N7) and I'm sure she will love the UI, I think thats one thing MS has going for it, its a really nice UI to get **** done. Apps shouldn't be a problem, if people actual use the metro apps on desktop (I wont for the most part) then they have a huge install base ever seen.

I know its an excuse but right now its a problem, and the idea of huge market place is that most of the time you could just search for anything and it would come up, any random kinda of app that you will use once xD. I personally think its more of a insecurity that omg, I wont have any apps to download from, what is my smartphone useful for then.
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As others have said, those apps will be in windows soon. Also, Instagram is not fully supported with the ipad so i dont know how your missus uses that on a ipad when its not rendered properly.

its best to use that on a phone.

im pretty sure windows 8 already has various news feeds apps and random games she can play.

its not as if windows 8 has no games and no news feeds. tell her to check the app store and see
 
They face a similar problem to the mac. People love the product and would love to get one but it just doesn't run all the stuff they have on their Windows PC.

MS really need to get the 100 top apps working on W8 asap to ensure those barriers are not in the way.
 
rogueblade said:
So are there people who would prefer the RT over the Pro? The Pro is pretty much a laptop while the RT is more like a tablet right?
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Yeh people would like the RT instead of the pro manly cause of battery life, heat, less weight. I think pro is the future but we just need to wait for intel and AMD to get there in terms of cpu that can run super cool and take battery closer to the ARM chips we have.
 
rogueblade said:
So are there people who would prefer the RT over the Pro? The Pro is pretty much a laptop while the RT is more like a tablet right?
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I want an RT - I want it purely as a low maintenance consumption device. It's also slightly lighter, slightly smaller, and potentially quieter and cooler than the Pro.

I did consider a Pro and will probably get one in the future if they're still around ;) Probably after a refresh or two, as I've a couple of i7 laptops more powerful than the Pro I'll wait until it can perform better than them.
 
jonneymendoza said:
takes 2 seconds for u to find the answer http://www.windowsphone.com/en-gb/store
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That's windows phone. Which is different.

As far as I know you need win8 RTM to see what's in the store and even then loads of stuff that has been confirmed isn't in there yet. Hopfully will be in there by 26th, really wouldn't surprise me, that MS are holding some of the big names back for their release party.

I want a pro, purely for games.
However if game developers start developing for rt I would gladly move to RT in the coming years. I see no reason why they can't, or at least for the type of games I'm into these days.
 
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I can't see civilization on the Windows 8 Store.

Also, in the XBL app, how do I make it change details? My MS account and XBL account are on different E-mails, and it loads an account I made years ago >.<
 
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And how do you change the directory when installing stuff from the store? Just bought a 32GB SD card I intend to install stuff on, but the lack of options is just too simple and makes it frustrating.

Just ran a game there which had no exit button.
 
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