People have to realise (edit - MS have to make it clear that) the Pro version isn't competing with iPads or Android tablets, it's competing with laptops! I'm looking forward to the Pro version, tablets are gimped with mobile os at the moment so this will be a very welcome addition.
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Think RT would do me, would only want it for web browsing videos and music, so think that would be fine, really like the look of it, been playing with Win8 on the desktop and like it but not with a mouse. The kick stand and keyboard...brilliant, like it!
Soldato
The Pro version looks awesome, and definitely fills a gap in the market for sure. It can finally do more than traditional tablets, none of this mobile OS nonsense.
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Pro does indeed look awesome!
Think the RT would do me though, will be keeping an eye out for the price when released.
Think the RT would do me though, will be keeping an eye out for the price when released.
Soldato
It's a laptop...................
But it isnt....
Soldato
Wow, it must just be me.. But no way i would pay that much for a tablet. That would get me close to a high end PC...
You...You did see the part where they essectially put a decent specced PC into a 10.6 tablet you can take with you didnt you?
How much do decent Ultrao books go for?...1k and up?
I was thinking more of the top android tablets, which are around 1mm thinner and ~100g lighter, and with less of a difference in screen size...
And god knows whether any of those will be updated prior to this coming out, I think we'll be getting 1080p screens at the very least by the new Transformer.
It's not too dissimilar to the Samsung Series 7 Slate, with updated hardware, but that wasn't overly popular. The question is was it unpopular because:
It was a bit unwieldy size/weight for a tablet?
It costs so damn much?
The battery life was terrible?
Windows 7 being awful with a touchscreen?
It probably was heavily down to Windows 7, which obviously Windows 8 fixes, but how much do the other points come into it.
I do like it as a product though, easily the more impressive of the two from a tech/geek point of view, but it's definitely a niche product though, even if executed perfectly, whilst it's the ARM one will be by far the bigger seller and I still think that looks disappointing.
Soldato
Hot damn, that looks nice! Pro version looks very promising, would make a nice laptop replacement.
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Looks good to me.
Price is key like everyone said. I wonder whether they'll follow the xbox model and sell them at cost/slight loss but make it up in accessories and software sales.
Price is key like everyone said. I wonder whether they'll follow the xbox model and sell them at cost/slight loss but make it up in accessories and software sales.
To me now it seems like they are going to throw everything at the same time, isnt their some stuff about WP8 as well tomorrow?
Everything seems to be keyed in for the Oct/ Nov release for the RT version, the Pro version come out 3 months later, so Feb 2013
Everything seems to be keyed in for the Oct/ Nov release for the RT version, the Pro version come out 3 months later, so Feb 2013
not to go to OT but, did you know Sony has lost money on every single PS3 sold? That staggers me! But it won the format war so they make the cash on the discs players etc etc
Staggering
Every console since the dawn of time has been a loss leader.
They sell the console at a loss and then make the profit on the software.
