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Will you buy one if the RT is ~$500 and Pro is ~$900

yes 115 52.27%
 
no 79 35.91%
 
see resultz 23 10.45%
 
Total:217

Did they say screen is 10" or 12"?



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"The tolerence is to tight that putting a piece of tape in the device would make it bulge"

Jun 18, 16:48 PT

The surface is thinner than a credit card - this is a good represention of what's going on. "Every micron" matters says MSFT.

Jun 18, 16:47 PT

We're comparing the VaporMag surface and compare it to the thickness of a credit card.

No single part of VaporMg
is thicker than 0.65mm

Talking Touch Cover now



Slimebeast said:
Did they say screen is 10" or 12"?

10.6''

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



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Darn, no price or date announcement today. Sux.



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Touch cover has an accelerometer built in, so it knows when its folded back and it will deactivate the keyboard.

Seven layers in Touch Cover, pressed to 3mm thick



Surface for WIndows RT coming in 32GB and 64GB models. Priced "like comparable tablets based on ARM."



lol read this on twitter:

MS: "This spine feels like a book. You'll hold it like a book. It will feel like it's another book..." It's like some kind of "Wonderbook."



Surface for WIndows RT coming in 32GB and 64GB models. Priced "like comparable tablets based on ARM."



Suggested retail pricing will be announced closer to availability and is expected to be competitive with a comparable ARM tablet or Intel Ultrabook-class PC. OEMs will have cost and feature parity on Windows 8 and Windows RT.

What does that mean? (the bolded)