*** The Official Microsoft Surface Thread ***

Glaucus said:
I don't agree at all, people will still go and buy arm. Which means not only is it not a mistake it's essential.

Where clove tail will come into its own is for cheap business devices.
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I'm sure people will still buy ARM as well.... and then get annoyed and confused when they cant get their Windows software working. Having two different OS's for tablets also causes so many marketing problems, especially when one OS (RT) offers no advantage over the other.

It also seems that OEM's agree and are possibly making more Clover Trail tablets compared to ARM tablets. Clover Trail has tablets coming from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung and ZTE.
 
Not long to go :) Though just read through some of this thread for the first time and sad to see the pro is out months after the RT version, shame as it's the full fat version I'm mainly interested in.
 
Freakbro said:
Not long to go :) Though just read through some of this thread for the first time and sad to see the pro is out months after the RT version, shame as it's the full fat version I'm mainly interested in.
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You never know, on the October 26th keynote they might have a surprise announcement that the pro will be coming sooner due to consumer demand, it's doubtful, but there's a chance.
 
Was it ever official that it was coming latter? Isn't the release date for the pro all speculation. I've seen everything from the 26th, 30 days after rt, jan, 4months after rt release.
 
The wait is killing me.
Though I agree with MR.B.

An Intel Atom on Clover Trail at the same price point, performance and battery life, along with the full fat Windows 8 is a better product to an RT (The Atom could do everything the RT can do, the RT can't do everything the full fat Windows 8 one could do, it is rarely as black and white as this is.)
 
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I was just sent this by a student, apparently their uni it services will buy them on students behalf.
 
That is tempting, if one of the schools my dad works at does it,
I think this also points to an earlier release of win8.1 and surface2 than end of October like I thought.
 
I think this also points to an earlier release of win8.1 and surface2 than end of October like I thought.
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I don't know if it was a joke that I some how missed but Paul Thurrott seemed to suggest it would be released on august the first, I can't really see it somehow otherwise what would be the point of release the preview?

I must admit I was never going to get a first gen surface (especially an RT) but at £200 with a touch cover well that just seems like a no brainer.
 
If the touch cover is forward compatible that would be nice. But still, £200? I know it's cheap but I still think I'd put the money towards a Surface 2. Remember it's not really a bargain unless you wanted one in the first place.

And the gits aren't doing the resale value of mine any favours!
 
Only really for students though, I couldn't go out and buy one, annoyingly enough.

I've started using my Surface a bit more though, but RT doesn't seem snappy at all.
I'd much rather use my Dads Nexus 7.

Really wish I'd waited on the second generation stuff, but oh well :p

Hopefully we won't be waiting too long for a baytrail 8".

But all in all, worst tablet movement ever..
 
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