Don't be stupid.

Nope they need to take a good look at the Asus transformer book T-100, because that's the ultimate portable Win8 product. Just a kickstand alone is not enough, and 800 grams is to heavy for a tablet. If they can make something like the t-100 but higher quality and maybe with a low power i3, at $500-$700 then they have a winner.

Does it need saving? I dunno much about market share with tablets other than iPad seems to have retained a much bigger market share than iPhone seems to have been able to hold on to.

Is W8 tablet market share so low that sustainability of the platform is under threat? Seems if W8 has carved out a sustainable niche Surface doesn't need saving, it just needs to work on grabbing more market share for W* as a whole, and not necessarily just for Surface.

The name is still really naff though. Microsoft seems to be singularly useless at coming up with good names for their products; and yeah that means I think Xbox is a naff name.

Maybe you can strap it to your head with something like this for HD VR :p


I use a 1080p 15.4" laptop, any smaller letters will be uncomfortable to read. 12" 1440p seems like a waste if you use it like a laptop.
It's too expensive anyway, my laptop was under $1000 with 2.4ghz i7, 16gb ram, 1tb hdd and GeForce GT 740m. Sure the battery life sucks for gaming, but how does the battery life on a much smaller tablet compare when taxing the hardware?

Thanks, but no thanks.

Gonna tank, people just dont have interest in MS hardware.

They're marketing it a little too heavily as a laptop so I don't see how the pro 3 will drastically improve sales. Still, the price on the i7 model is very steep. I won't be trading in my Pro 1 until the i7 model receives a significant price drop, which might not be until 2015 i'd imagine.

The highest end version is $1950. I'm sorry but there's no way I'd buy that when for the same money I can get:

AND

(Intel Core i7 processor, 8 GB DDR3L SDRAM, 256 GB SSD, Intel HD Graphics 4400)

And STILL have

(almost) $100 left.

No way in hell. Can even subb that laptop for an alienware easily.

Thanks for your concern, I've read about them as well and of course nothing compares to the Wacom and it's main purpose is for drawing.  Tho I read that MS worked closely with Adobe for the Surface Pro 3 so ill continue to keep an eye on this.  If reviews end up sour then i'll pass.

It would be really nice if MS did a promotion to give away a free Xbone with the purchase of one of these (or at least the higher models).

MS themselves call it a tablet, yet I'm the stupid one.