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Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid
Renegade:
It looks really nice but if the pricing is $500+ it will take much more than that. For the general public and market share.
-rgdot (June 19, 2012, 10:02 AM)
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It does have a keyboard, which adds $100 (around) to the perceived value...
40hz:
If you're more the visual/"just show me" type here's a couple of videos:
The first is some techno-porn shots. Apparently Microsoft learned a few things (not all of them good) from Apple over the years. Because this ad oozes consumer sex appeal, and virtually screams: WANT IT!
The next is the official keynote intro to Surface. Once you get past Steve (Monkeyboy) Ballmer doing his usual self-congratulatory rah-rah valedictory speech it gets more interesting. Around the 20:40 mark Mike Angiulo takes the stage and gets into the i-core Pro, which is the version I would think most of us geek types would be more interested in. Some of the remarks regarding basic design decisions (and compromises) are very interesting. And his comments on the underlying direction and future plans Microsoft has for this new platform are well worth paying close attention to. (And try not to gag too much around the 29:45 mark when the philosophical spiel starts rolling. ::))
If this turns out to be reliable and affordable - everything works as advertised - and it can be delivered to the consumer in quantity on a timely basis - I think Microsoft may have a real winner here. Especially as a computing device for general use by the general public.
If so, Microsoft will likely redefine the whole "personal" game once again. And with all that implies, both for better, and worse.
:huh:
Renegade:
Sigh... yes... want it...
Despite my new-found loathing of the company Microsoft, I do like a lot of what they do... :(
40hz:
Sigh... yes... want it...
Despite my new-found loathing of the company Microsoft, I do like a lot of what they do... :(
-Renegade (June 19, 2012, 11:42 AM)
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I use my GF as a bellwhether for consumer computing. She's smart, technically literate, can code, gets involved in information design at her job, and is one of the most logical and intelligent buyers of technology I ever met. She doesn't shy away from any necessary learning curves. But she also doesn't suffer fools gladly. Or the products they design. And the amount of research she does prior to putting her plastic down for a bit of tech (most recently a digital camera, a distortion box for her guitar, and an ebook reader) is a wonder to behold. She's usually ahead of the adoption curve for what either becomes the mainstream choice or the "smart-money sleeper" product. Her track record is close to 100% for that.
That said, she's not completely indifferent to techno-bling. Her feeling is, if all other factors are mostly equal, go for the prettier one. (How she can think like that and still end up with me is anybody's guess. But I'm not complaining. :mrgreen:)
I'm gonna turn her loose on this one. If she thinks it's a go, I'm almost certain it's gonna be a winner.
8)
nudone:
Just sat through the full 47 minute video. Looks like a winner to me. Makes the iPad look like the obese iPod it has always been. I really, really can't wait to swap my iPad for a "Surface" now I've seen that it's a PC crammed into a tablet.
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