Microsoft Surface Tablet announced

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I'd imagine that this cost more than an actual surface.

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tino said:
You should wait for the Lenovo Tablet 2 price. Its an atom tablet that has battery life almost as long as the note; has pen support and runs real photoshop; plus you can dualboot Android.

Really the only down side is shorter battery life and maybe 100 more expensive.
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It looks interesting, but I'm suspecting it will end up quite a lot more expensive than the Atom 10.1, maybe at $800 or so and it's releasing a bit too late (need it for university, so no later than october).
 
Emily Chu said:
wait wtf ? srsly ?

I have a Acer Aspire One ZG5 from like 5 years ago and your telling me it can run Android ?

intel Atom N270 ?

because windows 7 sort of runs like ass on it

will dual boot asap lol
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Do you have touch screen? If you don't, installing android is pretty useless. You really should just install xp or a slimdown version of xp.
 
Complex Shadow said:
its a cake? i need a link to this.
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Microsoft held a Windows 8 celebration at its Redmond headquarters earlier this week on August 8th (8/8), but while the company didn't manage to make 8888 the final build of its latest operating system, it was able to create a giant Surface cake for the party. The impressive cake, which includes a table and five Surface devices, was on display for members of the Windows team to celebrate a fully baked version of Windows 8.
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http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3232879/surface-cake-windows-8-party-microsoft-campus
 
I don't think that entire thing was a cake, just the little surfaces on top.

There were App Store cupcakes though, and they were positively delicious!
 
dLMN8R said:
I don't think that entire thing was a cake, just the little surfaces on top.

There were App Store cupcakes though, and they were positively delicious!
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Really? I mean, I figure you where there and all, but were they really sitting on a table, on top of another table?
 
I dunno, I didn't actually see the surface cake until I saw my friends' pictures from it later :-( maybe it was a giant cake!
 
dLMN8R said:
I dunno, I didn't actually see the surface cake until I saw my friends' pictures from it later :-( maybe it was a giant cake!
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The brown table top part certainly looks like a cake, it's too uneven to be an actual table. Looks like a giant brownie.
 
What's that Acer guy whining about. Surface is pretty much the only thing surrounding Win8 that's getting positive publicity. He should be happy that MS got people to take note of Win 8 tablets.
 
Milchjon said:
What's that Acer guy whining about. Surface is pretty much the only thing surrounding Win8 that's getting positive publicity. He should be happy that MS got people to take note of Win 8 tablets.
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its just OEM's being lazy as fuck. they think they can push a lackluster product to market and get bank on the poor man or avg consumer because they don't mean shit to them. and they see MS's push of the surface as raising the non existent bar(which was quite fucking low to begin with), which would either take a cut of there profits or make them spend money on some R&D which would still hurt them in the short run. honestly i can't blame MS, after years of seeing their product on shit hardware being the butt of all jokes. VIZO is the only one company actually doing anything note worthy.
DataStream said:
I want this with WinRT.

Would be so nice for my bedroom as a music/video playback device.
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well there is that asus all-in-one computer/tablet. =/
 
New blog post: Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs

It’s also worth taking a moment to describe how our collaboration on these PC efforts has been different than in any other Windows release. Our engineering collaboration on these Windows RT PCs has been strong, collaborating with the PC manufacturers, Silicon partners, and Operators to focus on hardware, software and services integration. Each respective partner was committed to sharing early iterations of their products, whether it was a SoC bring-up board, early builds of Windows RT, firmware and drivers, or hundreds of pre-release PC hardware samples (such as the ones featured in earlier demonstrations and videos). Product designs were informed and revised by our collective efforts through development and testing. As a result, all of these Windows RT PCs will have consistent fast and fluid touch interactions, long battery life, connected standby, and are beautiful, thin, and light designs. All of these are designed to make the most of the capabilities of Windows RT.
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The measurements are based on firmware still undergoing final optimizations, and the just released Windows RT RTM code, and will only improve as the PCs move towards manufacture. To provide context on the significance of the measurement, it is important to understand how the scenario was measured. In this case, the PC was playing back in full screen a local HD video at full resolution with a screen brightness of 200 nits. It was also configured for one email account using the Microsoft network. Finally, these numbers are also influenced by the different PC form factors themselves, which include both tablets and laptops, screen sizes that vary from 10.1” to 11.6”, and battery sizes spanning 25 Whr to 42 Whr.

Scenario
HD Video Playback: 8 hours to 13 hours of scenario run time
Connected Standby: 320 hours to 409 hours of scenario run time
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EDIT: Ah, beaten in W8 CP thread.
 
I am starting to think Acer is not saying these things to MS. My theory is that Acer is signalling. They are saying this to Dell and Samsung. Becuase really, you don't need to say the same shit 3 times.

What Acer is trying to do and invite Dell and Samsung, who have the early RT access to collectively give Microsoft's RT initiative the cold shoulder. Lenovo IMO has shown its hand. It has shown an atom tablet but not the RT tablet, that to me says that Lenovo cares more about the regular W8 platform.

It will be real interesting to see what will Dell do. They are basically pinch hitting for HP after HP turn down Microaoft's early access invitation.
 
They also published the number "13 hours" in the exact same cell of the table, but you're choosing to deliberately ignore it?

What next?

"Weight? 1200g? That's 2.6 pounds! That's almost as much as a laptop! Nearly twice the iPad! Hah!"
 
dLMN8R said:
They also published the number "13 hours" in the exact same cell of the table, but you're choosing to deliberately ignore it?

What next?

"Weight? 1200g? That's 2.6 pounds! That's almost as much as a laptop! Nearly twice the iPad! Hah!"
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oops, brain fart. I read that as 8 hours and 13 minutes somehow
 
tino said:
I am starting to think Acer is not saying these things to MS. My theory is that Acer is signalling. They are saying this to Dell and Samsung. Becuase really, you don't need to say the same shit 3 times.

What Acer is trying to do and invite Dell and Samsung, who have the early RT access to collectively give Microsoft's RT initiative the cold shoulder. Lenovo IMO has shown its hand. It has shown an atom tablet but not the RT tablet, that to me says that Lenovo cares more about the regular W8 platform.

It will be real interesting to see what will Dell do. They are basically pinch hitting for HP after HP turn down Microaoft's early access invitation.
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Have a link? Was HP ever asked?
 
tino said:
I am starting to think Acer is not saying these things to MS. My theory is that Acer is signalling. They are saying this to Dell and Samsung. Becuase really, you don't need to say the same shit 3 times.

What Acer is trying to do and invite Dell and Samsung, who have the early RT access to collectively give Microsoft's RT initiative the cold shoulder. Lenovo IMO has shown its hand. It has shown an atom tablet but not the RT tablet, that to me says that Lenovo cares more about the regular W8 platform.

It will be real interesting to see what will Dell do. They are basically pinch hitting for HP after HP turn down Microaoft's early access invitation.
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It sounds like you're reaching to me. We haven't seen anyone's RT tablets and we have seen plenty of W8 tablets. It's MUCH more likely that it has to do with the tight constraints Microsoft has placed on RT (or readiness) than it does with some sort of with what you're suggesting
 
Lynn616 said:
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I saw that China Times article back in July. Like to see where they got the rumored OEM list from. Microsoft didnt confirm OEMs till today.
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Shrug. OK email China Times then.

(It doesn't matter. Dell can still make a good tablet or make one as shitty as the Streak 10 and get laughed out of the tablet market again.)
 
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