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Shinobi-san on 29 November 2012
Euphoria14 said:

I'm only concerned for Indie gaming and Minecraft really. The big heavy hitters I will play on a console.


Yeah should be more than enough power for indie games :)



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Soleron on 29 November 2012



Battery life is half that of the Surface RT.



the2real4mafol on 29 November 2012

The specs are like that of an ultrabook and so is the price for that matter



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Heavenly_King on 29 November 2012

I think the price is nice considering you get a PC of the size of a tablet. And that you can play PC games through steam on a tablet :)



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mothman on 29 November 2012

So a $900 tablet that requires a $120 keyboard to be fully functional. If their intent was to compete in the tablet space with $700 iPads and $400 Android slates they've lost already.

You can build a hell of a PC or buy a really nice laptop for that price so I don't see it selling in that market either.

Exactly who their target market is I am not too sure.



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Nsanity on 29 November 2012

These devices are overpriced!



Proclus on 29 November 2012

Sounds about right for the things I want a tablet for and releases just in time for when I need it.



superchunk on 29 November 2012

About what I figured.... over $800. ugh, kinda wanted one until that.



mothman on 29 November 2012
BasilZero said:
mothman said:
So a $900 tablet that requires a $120 keyboard to be fully functional. If their intent was to compete in the tablet space with $700 iPads and $400 Android slates they've lost already.

You can build a hell of a PC or buy a really nice laptop for that price so I don't see it selling in that market either.

Exactly who their target market is I am not too sure.


Sales analysts and those who want to use Microsoft Smart Glass on the Xbox360.

 

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LOL

I don't think they're going to pay many salaries on that sorry lot.

You know, if this had come in at $400 to $500 I wouldn't be shaking my head. I might actually be tempted to find out what's what. It's just too f'in outrageous to be real. If this had been April 1 I would have just laughed it off.

I may still have to buy one for work as due diligence for my mobile computing strategy for the city but that's only because I wouldn't be paying for it. :D



Soleron on 29 November 2012
mothman said:
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I may still have to buy one for work as due diligence for my mobile computing strategy for the city but that's only because I wouldn't be paying for it. :D

OMG you're part of the shadowy cabal that buys government IT? Please get them to stop approving XP with IE6 running on massive overpriced HP towers.