Is a price drop incoming for the XB1?

[Landguy]

Arkaign said:

Their desktop workload is not a good match for the slow dual-core processors in the Surface Pros, they use them on the go for email and office documents only. In office they deal with Solidworks and Premiere Pro. The ram and storage limitations of the Surface Pro 3 are very low as well.

It's a great on the go device, but horribly underpowered for serious usage.

Meh, I guess making assumptions is bad for your train of logic.

We have both made some assumptions.

Almost all CAD based programs can run on as little as 2gb of RAM, with system recommendations of 8gb.  Of course, the 8gb of RAM on the Surface Pros and similar tablets are adequete.  Under the most ideal circumstances for heavy CAD users you are absolutely correct in that the dual core processor and intel video cards are not realy close to ideal.  Under your example, the desktop and tablet concept makes a lot more sense.  I do know that you can run Autocad and ArcGis fine on the Surface Pro 2s.  We use them regularly in meetings with no problems. 

I don't follow the Storage problem that you suggest.  Most of the files that people use are on the server in these corporate networked environments.  Sure, heavy duty users will keep their working version of what they are doing locally to speed up processing time.  But the Surface and similar devices have 256 or even 500+ GB of storage on them. Surely, that would be enough for most projects.  Also, with cloud storage, there are no limits to what you have wherever you go.  External storage is cheap enough now that extremely large files can be brought along with you if needed with that scenario.

Based on how fast companies have progressed the power of these PC/tablets in the last 2 years, I would guess that within the next 2-3 years there will be a product out there to fit 95%+ of the users. 

Interesting view points either way.