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Would pay up to $2k, if there's the power and battery life to back it up.

jesus

 

[luxarific]

SD slot? *hopes*

 

[MThanded]

Is it telling that the two major factors that will ultimately make or break this thing, battery and price, are left out?

Yeah no mention about either of these things. These are really the big elephants in the room.

 

[CountAntonius]

Well I'm definitely impressed.

 

[antiquegamer]

I don't really understand the point of the RT model. Why even bother with it? The Pro version is the real hotness.

Unless the RT model is REALLY cheap.

To compete with others ARM talent, not everyone want full fledge PC. My wife just want it for Internet and light Office and email.

 

[Divvy]

I'm predicting 399ish for RT

799-999 for Pro

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

The one thing that Apple gets right with (most of) their product announcements is that you can start ordering the item immediately after the announcement. Microsoft shouldn't be announcing this with no price or way to purchase. It makes it seem like the product might not be done yet; it's just a tech demo. At least they're doing hands-on demos.

This may be why they aren't talking about battery life just yet. They haven't finalized one.

 

[Ovid]

I think the RT will be the same as the cheapest iPad and the Pro the same as the cheapest Macbook Air. Competitive without being a ridiculous deal.

I agree.

 

[outunderthestars]

disappointed @ no price, but the hype and secrecy was justified imo.

Few products that are that far away from retail get pricing....

 

[Talon]

I'm saying $599 for the 32 GB RT and $899 for the i5. I can't imagine they'll go any higher than that. If anything, $100 under those prices would make a big impact.

But, again, battery life. The RT needs to last 7 hours or more to keep up with competition. Doubt the i5 can reach that.

 

[Shard]

So they are now cribbing from Nintendo's notebook, wonderful.

 

[gaming_noob]

Too many positive posts. Anticitizen One will not be happy.

 

[AgentP]

I don't get it I guess, they are hoping Office is enough to get people to buy a MS tablet with no existing app support. It also looks big, heavy and expensive. Does anyone give a crap about Office anymore, is it enough of a pull to sell anything? I don't even use it on my laptop, let alone a tablet.

MS is struggling to stay relevant in a Apple/Google world. Who makes the hardware?

 

[giga]

…Google is about to slay this with a $200 Nexus 7 tablet next week.

 

[Art Teitlebaum]

600 to 1200 sounds reasonable.

 

[Alabamaman]

No price? GTFO MS!

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

I rate the event an A.

B+ due to no price.

 

[El Sloth]

I like it. I think it looks purdy.

 

[KHarvey16]

I'm gonna say if you want to budget for the pro, start at $1k.

 

[mcfrank]

Surface is interesting and that keyboard cover looks killer, but no date, pricing, or battery life mentions should worry everyone.

 

[LiK]

Too many positive posts. Anticitizen One will not be happy.

he already posted his disgust

 

[RibMan]

Is it telling that the two major factors that will ultimately make or break this thing, battery and price, are left out?

Very telling.

Have they announced the resolution of the 10.6" screen?

 

[Zabka]

So the pro one is going to go ultrabook pricing. About 1000 or more then i assume.

64 GB Ultrabooks at that screen size are around $700+ and that's having to include OEM software fees.

 

[liger05]

Looks dope and I'm impressed but if the basic is Ipad price and pro ultra book price then this thing wont be no rival to the Ipad.

 

[Dabanton]

Lol watch they get it out sometime next year when they run into the iPad 4 which has the stand and cover.

And which will be hailed as revolutionary.

 

[FStop7]

Pricing guess:

$499 32 gig RT
$599 64 gig RT

$999 128 gig Pro
$1199 256 gig Pro

 

[PS3GamerKyle]

I'm late....What did the 5:20 card mean?

when that specific journalist has hands on time with it

 

[zethren]

See, if this was Apple they would have announced that you can buy it right now and my credit card would have been charged already. Microsoft fail.

Yeah and honestly they saw how well that worked with the 360 Slim model. Announcing that they were shipping to retail stores that very day, and that you could go order one right now was awesome, and let the hype transition smoothly into a purchase.

 

[Clydefrog]

this picture feels like months ago

 

[xavi42]

Getting a pro!

 

[victreeb3l]

honestly though the main reason im so hyped is because of how fucking cool the keyboard cover is. i dont really give a shit about having all that power since i have a desktop for all that.

the keyboard cover is just an incredible idea and i was surprised no one had thought of it yet.

 

[Lonely1]

jesus

What's so wrong with what I said? :O

 

[An-Det]

The Surface looks awesome, but no price and release window is disconcerting. I can't wait to read/watch the hands-on impressions.

 

[artist]

Intel dropped the Ultrabook pricing to $799 and is currently meeting with the chinese ODMs to reduce the price further (after Apple slashed $100 off the MacBook Air), so $799 has to be the cieling for the Pro SKU.

 

[OpinionatedCyborg]

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx

I half expected the SEGA shout at the end of this video (not early 90s shout)

 

[clav]

SD slot? *hopes*

Yep.

http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingassets/surfacespecsheet.pdf

 

[Krakatoa]

I don't get it I guess, they are hoping Office is enough to get people to buy a MS tablet with no existing app support. It also looks big, heavy and expensive. Does anyone give a crap about Office anymore, is it enough of a pull to sell anything? I don't even use it on my laptop, let alone a tablet.

MS is struggling to stay relevant in a Apple/Google world. Who makes the hardware?

It will run all the existing windows programs. Thats already a pretty extensive library.

 

[H3xum]

Concerned about no battery talk

Otherwise

Day 1. Will pay up to 1200

 

[SpectreFire]

What's the fucking point of announcing a product that won't be released til next year now? After the iPad 3 and Macbook Air refresh all launch and every spends their fucking money on those?

 

[hwalker84]

Started slow then they blew the damn roof off. I need me some hands on. This really could make me switch from my iPad.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

The one thing that Apple gets right with (most of) their product announcements is that you can start ordering the item immediately after the announcement. Microsoft shouldn't be announcing this with no price or way to purchase. It makes it seem like the product might not be done yet; it's just a tech demo. At least they're doing hands-on demos.

So this thing is out in OCTOBER? 4 months away... I'll have lost interest by then If the price was good they would have announced it today - they'll slip it out in a little press release in a few months. Ah well.

 

[Slayer-33]

I can't believe that they sold me on this. I don't really care about tablets or laptops.. This is just seems too damn convenient though.

 

[TedNindo]

I love it. I don't need a laptop and a comicly large phone anymore. I can have both.
A tablet that runs apps and at the same time its a full blown windows 8 capable laptop that can run any game released on PC ever.

 

[neojubei]

This would have been awesome if not only MS announced a price but said it was shipping in one to two weeks. oh well..

 

[coldfoot]

$499 32GB RT
$999 64GB Pro
$99 keyboard

 

[outunderthestars]

…Google is about to slay this with a $200 Nexus 7 tablet next week.

The market for those products could not be more different.

 

[Piggus]

If it's in the 900 to 1000 range I'd just buy a Macbook Air. :/ The Win8 Pro model looks more like a Netbook than a tablet.

 

[Biff]

What's the fucking point of announcing a product that won't be released til next year now? After the iPad 3 and Macbook Air refresh all launch and every spends their fucking money on those?

ask any video game publisher ever

 

[rezuth]

No word on battery life? Guess that means it won't be that impressive.

 

[Zabka]

Very telling.

Have they announced the resolution of the 10.6" screen?

1366x768 is the min spec for Windows 8 to have app docking so I bet it's that.

Surface Pro says "Full HD" so I'm guessing 1080p.