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disolitude on 07 February 2013
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Turkish said:
disolitude said:
Turkish said:
disolitude said:
Turkish said:
Ain't no way I'll throw €1000 at this, you have a full fledged laptop like the Sony Vaio Z at that price. I'd consider a 128GB version at 699, but never 999.

Yeah but if this said Sony on it youd be all over it...


no

The fact you would want something like Sony Vaio Z over this is questionable. Over here Sony Vaio Z is 50% more expensive, 50% heavier, no touch screen or pen input... It's got benefits like bigger hard drive and i7 but its not even the same market.

At $1000 dollars which is what Surface Pro and touch/type keyboard costs, you really can't find a touch screen device with an i5/i7 processor that has a 1080p screen and a wacom digitizer.  Asus Thachi is 1299, Acer S7 is 1200 as well.

Only drawback I see amongst all those reviews for Surface Pro is the battery. Its about an hour too short. Everything else is reviewers notunderstanding what they are revieweing...

You can get a Vaio or a Samsung ultrabook at that price or for €100 more with excellent batterylife.

you can, but without touch screen, wacom digitizer and over 50% heavier and usually without 1080p screen...  Some people don't mind carrying 4 lbs laptops with no touch screen and care about hard drive space and GPU performance. Surface isn't for them obviously. But for someone that wants thin, light, powerful, keyboard, touch and wacom digitizer experience with fill Windows 8 OS, I can't think of a cheaper product.

Here is a statement from Microsoft about Surface just so people understand what this product is:

"The product was designed to take full advantage of Windows 8 coupled with the Ivy Bridge core processor from Intel. We created a product that did not compromise speed, performance in any way. With that, we wanted to be the best notebook/laptop product in its class, but still deliver you the tablet form factor. This product is optimized in every way to take advantage of the full third generation core i5 it runs, yet give the best battery life.


If you compare it to say a MacBook Air, you will quickly see that pound for pound in battery size vs battery life, you will find optimizations that puts Surface best in its class. That said we picked a smaller battery to be sure we were able to give you the same performance and to keep it thin. This kept the weight under 2lbs, and still kept it thin enough to take advantage of our great Windows work for inking and give you a great inking experience (like pressure sensitive inking, ability to do kanji, great sketching)."

Not many sub 1000 dollars devices can meet all this criteria.