Microsoft Surface RT Priced

My Surface arrived this morning. No confirmation email and the shipping box was open on arrival. :rolleyes:

If anybody wants specific pictures I don't mind taking a couple. I'm not just going to throw up generic shots though, you can get them anywhere. If there is anything you're curious about give me a shout.
 
theheyes said:
My Surface arrived this morning. No confirmation email and the shipping box was open on arrival. :rolleyes:

If anybody wants specific pictures I don't mind taking a couple. I'm not just going to throw up generic shots though, you can get them anywhere. If there is anything you're curious about give me a shout.
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Id be most interested in your honest thought on the screen quality.

I may have other questions but thats it for now lol
 
D'oh, I ordered a 64GB version on Sunday and have just found out UPS tried to deliver today. I had no dispatch confirmation from Microsoft. Oh well, will hopefully get it tomorrow.
 
cu3ed said:
Id be most interested in your honest thought on the screen quality.

I may have other questions but thats it for now lol
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The screen is what I would call "very good". The iPad 3 screen is better. There is no getting around the fact that it is average resolution but the contrast is excellent, and so are the colours and viewing angles. Text doesn't look bad at all which was one of the things I was worried about.

Fire away if you have any questions. I do have an iPad3 so I can make those sorts of comparisons as well.
 
I have not owned an iPad since the first one but have the Nexus 7, but wanting a bigger screen.

I think it was my prime concern, if you get a chance can you see if the Flash allows you to use BBC iPlayer in browser?
 
cu3ed said:
Awesome, is the on board keyboard/ auto corrections any good?
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Auto corrections are good but to be fair its only been out of the box a couple of hours. The on screen keyboard is really good I think its better than the ios version, its very zippy especially when back spacing which I always find sluggish on the iPad. I am missing that little press to view magnifying glass from ios though.

The touch cover feels weird its definitely going to take a few days to get used to. The trackpad is excellent though.
 
I guess I could buy one now with the keyboard, then sell the surface itself when I get a Pro.

Meaning I have already paid for the keyboard, making the Pro seem cheaper later!
 
Just a word of warning though - I HAVE seen cut the rope dropping frames and also YouTube. Which is a bit worrying. I'll put it through the wringer though over the next couple of days so we'll see how it performs.
 
bledd. said:
If it turns up before mine, I will steal it!
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Ill sell you it..= profit :D.

Credit card is playing silly buggers with teh bank though.
Just been told that MS moved their online sales accounting to some place in Luxemburg, and its throwing security alerts all over the place.
 
theheyes said:
Just a word of warning though - I HAVE seen cut the rope dropping frames and also YouTube. Which is a bit worrying. I'll put it through the wringer though over the next couple of days so we'll see how it performs.
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Iasked this with someone who had it Monday on ere and they said flash was fine. I get the impression taht review was trying to make it lag.
But more people trying it the better.
I just don't get why they used tegra over the s4pro qaud goodness.
 
In general it does work fine - iplayer for example - but if you're a real stickler you're going to notice it. The IE flash player has been a little bit quirky for me too - not exiting full screen sometimes etc.

Don't get me wrong its by no means bad, I'm just being honest. No doubt we'll get some performance tweaks at some point.
 
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