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Microsoft's New Surface Tablet Hybrid
mouser:
Microsoft announced yesterday that they were going to go up against apple with a new table/thinlaptop hybrid, codenamed "Surface".
Links for more info:
* http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx
* http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/06/19/0253233/microsoft-announces-surface-tablet
* http://www.extremetech.com/computing/131302-microsoft-announces-surface-x86-and-arm-tablets-with-kickstand-and-fold-out-keyboard
Looks pretty cool. Apple has a long history of locking down their machines and making it hard for users to use them flexibly. Let's hope Microsoft can do something different.
allen:
I think it looks amazing. . . with everything I need on external hard drives and the cloud, I could easily see myself ditching my laptop and tablet for this type of platform indefinitely. The price is going to be the kicker.
mouser:
It does have the potential to be a great thing, if Microsoft avoids doing the kind of nasty things that Apple does -- like making it so hard to get files/applications on and off the device and let's us have control of our own device.
Renegade:
It does have the potential to be a great thing, if Microsoft avoids doing the kind of nasty things that Apple does -- like making it so hard to get files/applications on and off the device and let's us have control of our own device.
-mouser (June 19, 2012, 09:27 AM)
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Not sure if I see that happening... But anyways...
It does look very nice. The full-sized Surface is very cool, so I'm wondering if they'll have that same "real" multi-touch on it. Just curious really.
rgdot:
It looks really nice but if the pricing is $500+ it will take much more than that. For the general public and market share.
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