*** The Official Microsoft Surface Thread ***

Think I confused it with the smaller one.
The venue should come in at 400ish? If so, I'll probably jump on one if I don't lose too much money on the RT, or keep the RT and hope VLC's okay at playing my files (I have my doubts the Tegra can cope)

EDIT : Just realised, it's only really MS and Nokia with RT tablets... They really should have just killed it off for Atom.
 
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Bit annoying how they haven't got their student discounts up and running on the new surfaces considering their American website has it all up and running. Means I'll have to wait until they are officially released before I make my purchase.
 
Sending my Surface RT back tomorrow as I seem to have some blistering on the chassis and the touch cover has pretty much lost all of its adhesive! All getting replaced and now I see the Surface RT 2 about to be realised - bad timing when I'm going away for a week next week!

Anyone else found similar issues?
 
Sending my Surface RT back tomorrow as I seem to have some blistering on the chassis and the touch cover has pretty much lost all of its adhesive!

My touch cover started peeling on one corner. MS replaced it in about 5 days with a new one.

Unintended benefit is my new one is a UK layout when the last one was USA.

But good customer service experience.
 
They do seemed to have improved over the last few months. i tried to get my cover replaced a few months back and they were very poor! The lady just told me to log it on-line but I couldn't as there was no option for it! I gave up in the end. Got through to a helpful Irish chap this time very fast and immediately arranged a return/replace.

My chassis has hydrogen blistering according to Google but it seems that no one else has had this issue so far!
 
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Don't think anyone knows when the NDA is lifted or is allowed to say. Hopefully it'll happen this week but there's a good chance it wont be until next week, doubt it'll be any later than that though.
 
Type Cover 2 has shifted to 29th October now. So they must have sold a few.

I want a Cyan one so waiting.

I have both the 256GB and the 128GB on pre order, still can't decide 100% which to get.
 
I can't decide either, don't need more than 128GB/4GB now, but who knows in 6 months time.

Can I ask what you use your Pro for? Just to get an idea of what I can expect from it.
 
Think I confused it with the smaller one.
The venue should come in at 400ish? If so, I'll probably jump on one if I don't lose too much money on the RT, or keep the RT and hope VLC's okay at playing my files (I have my doubts the Tegra can cope)

EDIT : Just realised, it's only really MS and Nokia with RT tablets... They really should have just killed it off for Atom.
Makes more sense if you believe the rumors today that Windows RT and Phone will come together in a year or so. RT type devices of lightweight/mobile/consumer/consumption and x86 Windows Pro for productivity. Sounds familiar *cough* iOS/OSX *cough* :)
 
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I'd take the Windows Phone and Windows RT coming together on that timescale with a huge pinch of salt. Windows Phone development moves like molasses, and besides, do I really want Windows RT on my phone? No thanks.

Convergence as a general trend, yes, but I'm calling red herring on the specifics of some of the recent leaks.
 
Can I ask what you use your Pro for? Just to get an idea of what I can expect from it.

On a normal day it sits on my desk and I use it for Skype :eek:

I use it for two scenarios, when on holiday I use it to answer emails and deal with problems etc.

But every couple of months I spend a week away with it at by business partners place in Spain, so it becomes my mobile workstation for Visual Studio development, which it handles easily.

I'm so lazy in the past rather then spend the time setting up the Surface, I have cloned my Desktop PC onto a Virtual Machine and ran it from that. (But the Surface runs out of Ram for that)


I have a problem with needing to have the latest shiny things, even if the items I already own will do a job just as well.
 
I'd take the Windows Phone and Windows RT coming together on that timescale with a huge pinch of salt. Windows Phone development moves like molasses, and besides, do I really want Windows RT on my phone? No thanks.

Convergence as a general trend, yes, but I'm calling red herring on the specifics of some of the recent leaks.

I can't really imagine RT on a phone being much different.
It's just the tiles and all programs really, just tweak it all a little.
 
Well, for starters, how much disk space does RT consume? Do I really want class drivers for webcams and printers on my handset? How will the OS be serviced? Via Windows update?

I don't know, I just can't see it. A blown up WinRT compatible evolution of Windows Phone that runs on phablets and mini tablets seems much more logical than taking an axe to an ARM port of a desktop OS.
 
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