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    News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    The usual “sources familiar with plans” have confirmed it.
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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Seems like a pretty beastly piece of hardware. How would it compare to the Xbox360s own specs in terms of real life performance?

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Can you imagine the battery life?

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    If I can play my 360 games on it, or even stream live footage to it I.e making it the primary display I will be getting one!!!

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Is it just me or are these blatently the specs for the next gen Xbox? Is it going to be called Xbox Surface and NOT Xbox 720?

    12 CPU Cores
    5GB RAM
    Custom AMD designed GPU

    hmmmmm....

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Nice specs and I am taking them with a pitch of salt.....

    380w Psu, that is a mighty battery!
    SCSI hard disk, im sure they may mean SAS as a native SCSI controller is a bit old school (by 5-10 years)
    Im assuming that the 1440p output is via the HDMI and not the native 1280x720 screen.

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    The 380W PUS is for the stationary computing device i.e. the thing the tablet connects to, i.e. the next gen Xbox. There are two separate devices being specified here, the 1440p is the output from the stationary device probably will be via HDMI. This is Microsofts version of the Wii U

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    PSU typo...

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    After reading it again its clearly the specs for the new Xbox. And the specs for the tablet are listed separately. Looks Awesome!

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Quote Originally Posted by daveyhue View Post
    After reading it again its clearly the specs for the new Xbox. And the specs for the tablet are listed separately. Looks Awesome!
    As long as it doesn't come with a similarly "awesome" price (e.g. £700), and it'll run XBox360 titles then put me down for a pre-order.

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Quote Originally Posted by daveyhue View Post
    After reading it again its clearly the specs for the new Xbox. And the specs for the tablet are listed separately. Looks Awesome!
    The tablet is not a tablet, it's a WiiU

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    The "Stationary Computing Device" is the next xbox.

    The tablet looks like it's REALLY lacking in memory. 288MB? Really? My 2 year old mid-range Android phone has 512MB...

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    I wonder...

    Nintendo did the first mainstream motion controller, Microsoft saw what they did and how much people took to interacting with a console is such a simple manner, and completely ran away with it.I wonder if this will be the same, they take the idea of the Wii U, and make it much better and how Nintendo should have done it.

    Stranger things have happened.

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar View Post
    I wonder...

    Nintendo did the first mainstream motion controller, Microsoft saw what they did and how much people took to interacting with a console is such a simple manner, and completely ran away with it.I wonder if this will be the same, they take the idea of the Wii U, and make it much better and how Nintendo should have done it.

    Stranger things have happened.
    Looks like the case. A shame nintendo are not like apple ie try and sue everyone who even looks at there designs

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    We could all be getting carried away here - they already have smartglass for current XBox, the mobile part of XBox surface could just be a low cost deviced tied to the smartglass app, so people who don't want to buy a Win 8 device can still get the benefit of the additional features that smartglass offers. That would make more sense of the apparently low memory amount - if it's just running a stripped down Windows runtime with one app on top it won't need much grunt...

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    Re: News - Microsoft's powerful 7-inch Xbox-Surface tablet

    Looks good, not going to like the price tag i'm thinking though. Any more details on the Xbox 720?

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