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A shade too expensive, I think £350 and we'd be talking.
Crap specs for £400, will be avoiding.
Mine's ordered. Will get a Surface pro once the second generation with Haswell come out - the current surface pro with IVB is not a lot of use without active standby.
479 with the cover? no thanks
To be honest - this had to be £399 with cover. As it stands - it will flop.
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Agreed, the cover should be included in the price. That, or have a better resolution display (I'm thinking...Transformer Pad Infinity style)
edit: The included Office seems like a great deal, but the problem is the average person wouldn't give a crap, and just be put off by the sticker price.
If the build quality is as good as they say, I'm in.
+1 ~ January sales anyone?!Originally Posted by neonplanet40
it looks nice, but that's a little too much for me to fork out to be honest.
Agreed. Oh well MS, better luck next time!
Same price as iPad but with more storage AND better features.
OK so the screen isn't as high resolution (disappointing but the overall quality is still high) but I reckon you'd get a lot more done with one of these for it to be a competitive tradeoff, it could be more than a consumption device, still I think not as good as an Ultrabook though by a long way.
Biggest problem I see is the ridiculous price of the keyboard cover, that is taking the piss, over £100? Are they having a giraffe? Seriously, for a mini keyboard with a clip on it? You can buy reasonable Android tablets for that.
The touch cover needed to be included in the price, £399 inc black cover for 32GB, £479 for 64GB. Optional upgrade at purchase to the type cover for £10, swap colour for £10 or £20 for fancy coloured type cover. Max price £499. Undercuts iPad and Asus Transformer by a bit to compensate for average screen and also gives usable features, worth the premium over a basic laptop and slots in just below cheaper Ultrabooks... done.
Android has the cheap market sorted, trying to compete there would be pointless, I think MS were close here but no cigar.
Problem for MS is home users don't understand that Office isn't he same thing as Windows, and unlike businesses certainly won't pay a premium for it. We get someone walks into the office every week asking why the new laptop they bought at Curry's hasn't got Word or Excel, and they look confused. They invariably get a pirate copy from their brother or something in the end.
This late to the game i think they needed to take a hit on the pricing just to get some market share,
to pricey for the spontaneous buyers
Bear in mind that this is an ARM powered tablet that isn't running full fat Windows so the spec is more than sufficient!
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Goodbye Surface, for half the price I'll get 75% of the performance with an Acer W500
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