If I ever get a tablet, it will be one of those...
but they are far too expensive for my taste (the keyboard thingy is ingenious though! )

I wonder how much they will cost?

/EDIT, nevermid found it.  Missed it on first read.

If its not around $500 without the kb, then its fail.

MS is the newcomer it has to hit the lower price first and then build up.

I kind of want to get the Surface 2 (the RT tablet version), but im really not sure if I would even end up using a tablet all that much since I have a laptop (and a gaming one at that). I'll probably wait it out, perhaps get one for whenever I decide to get my ass back to school.

Calm down, it wasn't a troll attack.

We all know that the RT version has been a flop, and I'm not sure about the Pro model, but given that it get a $100 price cut not long ago, I don't think this can be called a huge success, can it?

http://www.dailytech.com/Microsoft+Surface+Sales+Totaled+Just+853+Million+for+Fiscal+Year+2013/article33075.htm

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/microsoft-surface-sales/

@Hynad: The answer also applies to you.

Still not very appealing to me. However, in general, Haswell is great for mobile PCs; the highlight here is the 75% improvement in battery life for the Surface.

To be fair, this needs to be compared to similar slim designed laptops with Haswell i5 so we are looking at about $650 minimum w/ keyboard. The keyboard itself is overpriced if you ask most so perhaps, and giving the Surface the benefit of the doubt, $600 without the keyboard would seem reasonable.

Comparing to a $500 iPad wouldn't prove your point, neither way.

To people who want a tablet... its less than an iPad. It doesn't matter if it runs full windows. Tablet buyers don't need/want "full" windows. They want multimedia and a good browser.

MS needs to follow Google's lead and focus on the low-end first. The new commercial MS has out comparing an iPad to the SurfaceRT is perfect. THat should be their only focus right now.

If they want to say they are still better, then they need to copy that similar commercial style with all the stuff it can do to justify the higher price. But "higher" should be no more than $100. Putting it out as high as it is, makes it a niche market device for core windows fans.

Just as silly as the Chromebook Pixel being $1200.

Hell, if they priced it right, I'd even get one over an Android tablet solely because it would be a laptop replacement for my wife who's work has a couple apps that can only run in windows as well as requires IE for other items. MS needs to lose money on this to create marketshare.

Oh i did chuckle when they boasted 50% more graphics power :)