Microsoft Surface RT Priced

Yeah weirdly I thought Engadget's was the most glowing. Gawker were pretty damning of it (I read it on Kotaku, don't know where it was originally posted though)
 
MR.B said:
I wouldn't take any notice of The Verge review. They're always bias towards anything that isn't made by Apple (especially Joshua Topolsky who reviewed it).

I'd definitely trust Anandtech over them, and Anand said this about performance and lag:



I've always agreed with what he has to say on these matters. When Android was a laggy mess it was brought up and what he had to say was spot on, so if the Surface pretty much matches the iPad even though it has a slower GPU then i'll trust Anand. The fact MS have managed to get a far more capable OS running smoother than a cut-down phone OS on the same hardware is extremely impressive.

Like i said earlier though, MS really should have just made a Intel Clover Trail Surface. Full Win 8 + same size form factor, battery life about the same as ARM, and better SoC performance.
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Anand did have a good few critical things to say about performance of Surface RT. You've only supplied the positive there. It was his review that I read, and I left it rather concerned. I think it would be fair to say he liked the Surface and was impressed by Windows RT, but felt that Tegra 3 let the side down.

Personally, I've learnt my lesson. I ignored the concerns over the first iPad's lack of RAM and bought one any way. As soon as iOS4 launched, the performance tumbled. iOS5 made it even worse. iOS6 skipped this device altogether. The first iPad's lack of RAM is the source of the performance problems, and the writing was on the wall at launch. I'm not going to make the same error twice - if reviewers are expressing concerns over the performance of Tegra 3 under Windows RT, I'm going to skip it and wait for more performant devices to launch. It might be a small problem now, but 12 months from now? Two years from now? These devices aren't cheap enough to be disposable.
 
Thankfully unlike ipad, you have plenty of choices. The atoms are looking far more powerfull
And there's some s4 win rt tablets as well.

Like the dell xps10

Allready on us site, not on uk site :(

Also Samsung ativ tab also seems to be s4
 
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Thanks again. Got some updating to do in other thread

Can you find a full xps10 spec sheet on dell site? I can't see one.
 
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satchef1 said:
Anand did have a good few critical things to say about performance of Surface RT. You've only supplied the positive there. It was his review that I read, and I left it rather concerned. I think it would be fair to say he liked the Surface and was impressed by Windows RT, but felt that Tegra 3 let the side down
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Yes he had some issues, but his conclusion was overall very positive.

The main issues he had was with app launch times and desktop Office. The app side is something that can be specific to each app, being as these are very first versions as well i only expect app performance to improve. Theres also the benefit that you can easily have multiple apps open at once and performance doesn't take a hit.

Your problem you had with iPad wont apply here either. Win RT will be around for a long time, the next version probably wont be out for atleast 2 years, and MS support Windows for many years. 5 years from now Win RT will still be getting updates, and it's looking like MS are planning to increase the Win 8/RT update pace and might even abandon Service Packs in replace with faster and more significant updates. The only real area where performance will be an issue is future apps/games that wont run too great but that applies to any computing device.
 
satchef1 said:
Anand did have a good few critical things to say about performance of Surface RT. You've only supplied the positive there. It was his review that I read, and I left it rather concerned. I think it would be fair to say he liked the Surface and was impressed by Windows RT, but felt that Tegra 3 let the side down.

Personally, I've learnt my lesson. I ignored the concerns over the first iPad's lack of RAM and bought one any way. As soon as iOS4 launched, the performance tumbled. iOS5 made it even worse. iOS6 skipped this device altogether. The first iPad's lack of RAM is the source of the performance problems, and the writing was on the wall at launch. I'm not going to make the same error twice - if reviewers are expressing concerns over the performance of Tegra 3 under Windows RT, I'm going to skip it and wait for more performant devices to launch. It might be a small problem now, but 12 months from now? Two years from now? These devices aren't cheap enough to be disposable.
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Actually the performance being stated is where I expected them to be, with the exception of the Office issue (hopefully resolved in RTM). It's also a good read to understand why it has the performance it has, based on the compromises all round.

I was never expecting much, but it still seems to fit in with what I will want it to do.

Take your point on them being disposable, I'm very much treating my purchase of one as that though (use for 1 year - anything beyond a bonus). But that's a very personal decision and I just hope the platform is enough of a success that we have that luxury of future versions (beyond the Pro).
 
Any small lags etc im willing to bet are clearer right up with an update im willing to bet, just looks to me a bit of a glitch in the software side of things.
 
Reading through threads on WPCentral it looks like they are going to start shipping them on Friday, which I hope to god isn't true.
 
I think it might be nice to have a reviews thread for us, have our own scoring system, that way we can work an average from lots of different owners.
 
EDDS said:
That's the trouble with todays media, they are so far up apples arse that when a game changer comes along, they can't see it.
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Haha quite possibly...

[RXP]Andy;23025378 said:
The Guardian, normally seem to be very apple bias normally. So as above really.
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That's why I added that is was mostly a collection of other reviews :p

The collection of reviews over at gdgt seem to be agreeing mostly with each other though. That it's good but not great. Guess we'll have to wait until Friday to see what the guinea pigs think :D
 
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