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Well, at least Asus pricing itself or of the market makes any decision easier for me. I'm no apple fan (and re: laptops - I normally love Asus) but they've set the benchmark with the iPad pricing. Various companies have found it hard enough to compete (with a straight tablet) at a similar price up to now, and something special or extra is needed to justify anything that actively costs more.
I cant think of any reason to get one of these over an ultrabook. Tablets have to be cheaper, how can asus not get that after getting so many sales with the N7?
Is this the first real sign that W8-RT will flop?
I said before that win rt costing $80 dollars per licence (as stated in a previous hexus article) was dumb and here we can see the result. Balmer needed rt to be a cheap hook system to get public into ecosystem but instead its cheaper to go apple....
Those prices set Windows tablets up for a complete fail. A keyboard+battery dock that costs more than a decent Android tablet (16GB Nexus 7) on its own? $1000 for an Atom based tablet with keyboard. The "low-end" device is costlier than an iPad 3, a proven and popular tablet with an established ecosystem and proven OS.
Tablets have to be cheaper than ultrabooks - and Asus themselves are selling the UX31A for $1050 with an 1080p IPS screen, Ivy Bridge, 128GB SSD, etc. If you can't sell an Atom based system with a smaller screen, smaller storage, etc, for significantly less then don't bother.
Asus really should use these tablets merely to upsell customers to the UX31A and other Asus Ultrabooks. There's no other purpose to these tablets.
Wow, more than I was expected, tbh.
Not impressed - for the same price as the TF600T I could get a TF Prime 64GB - for which the docking station is a LOT cheaper. Presumably Asus (at Microsoft's behest I'm guessing) is aiming for premium pricing rather than starting low to gain market share.
If this is typical for Win8RT systems then I'm very sure I'm going to not bother - especially as that $600-700 price point could get a pretty reasonable lightweight laptop (which'd obviously be running full Windows8. not the RT variant).
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Do they still think that we got money to burn these days?
Ouch. If those prices are right, I'm priced well out of the market! I won't be the only one either, especially once the inevitable ridiculous $/£ conversion kicks in. Has to be well south of ultrabook territory before it becomes tempting to me.
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The Xbox division knew they had to burn a lot of cash in order to overturn the massive head-start Sony had, and they did and it worked. Looks like these guys either didn't learn that lesson or can't afford it.
Nothing to swallow there. Just ignore the whole overpriced model and move on until manufacturers and software provider (MS) will sit their ass down and lower the price by 40-50%. No way a student would pay over €500 for device with non Intel CPU.
$998 for essentially a netbook with a detachable touch screen. Funny how an atom is seen as high end compared to arm chips when the atom is considered way below celeron levels in terms of cost and performance.
I'm guessing a lot of this price comes from the bundling of office 2013, which as per another article is $139. + win 8 license on top of that.
I have been tempted by a tablet for a long time and have been waiting to see what ms do.
The transformer infinity has tempted me but will be way too expensive though less than these models. The kindle fire hd 8.9 hits the price / performance slot shame it's not coming to the uk would be nice to run one with cm9/10 on it.
This will bomb so hard that we'll see price cuts by Christmas (assuming they launch in Oct/Nov). It's hard to compete with Apple on the tablet price point as they've got such a good integration of the whole manufacturing chain.
To be fair these are pretty high end devices and priced not far off the top end Android and iPads but offer greater functionality, Office itself is a huge selling point to anyone who wants to do more than browse internet, read or watch a film (and if that's all you want to do buy a basic tablet).
Office might be big in the business world, but when it's adding $100+ to a device mainly used for media consumption it will make people think twice. These tablets must be aimed at businesses - but then they wouldn't want Office Home and Student. And a Student ain't going to spend so much precious money on such a device when they can get a really decent laptop for less, or a netbook/android tablet + gaming PC...
The strange thing is, I know plenty of people now that spend MORE money on a mobile phone than on their tablet.....
This is just stupid.
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