zephervack
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What Microsoft needs to do is sell this at almost cost like the One Plus smartphone is doing, get as much market share as possible.
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Microsoft to hold a "small" Surface event | 20/5/14
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It's pretty good. Microsoft Research posted this video almost 2 years ago which shows their work on touch latency. It's nice to see some of those improvements in real products.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
Mine are all software AFAIK.
- Not recognising that cover is disconnected... so no virtual keyboard
- Track pad scroll direction reverses
That would be ideal. Take a loss on the thing to gain marketshare then. Price more evenly with the next iteration. They won't though.
statham
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he is.
If this ends up being confirmed, these are the SKUs I'd be aiming for. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiit. Might have to sell both my laptops. I'm gonna wait till we find out more though.
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Graphics Horse
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Wow Windows just reshot a movie for him based on his pen scribbles.
MS holding these things in tiny tiny rooms with 24 journalists is super weird, with echoing claps, random chatter... it just oozes odd. Otherwise, the device itself is spectacular. Panos is a hardware guy, and while his delivery and stage presence is goofy, he's the real deal.
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Why doesn't Pianos do more MS stuff? Xbox could really use that fire.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Doesn't seem like there will be a mini announcement. It's already been an hour...
Did you literally just compare a large software conglomerate that dabbles in hardware with a startup that has yet to fucking ship a single device?
As much as I'd like that to happen I don't think the market works like that. Entitled Customers would create a large furore with any price increase.
The surface pro price is not cheap but it's inline with other devices. Even better if you wait for a sale.
There's no mini, unfortunately for a puppy out there.
Same concern here :[
Maybe I'll just be more productive on it heh.
Anton Sugar
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That pen turn-on is VERY cool, IMO. Main reason I keep a pen/paper notebook is that sometimes it's faster to just pull that out and write vs. pull out my Surface, sign in, and turn on OneNote.
I've been testing mine with device manager open, I think the shoddy connector just glitches the driver, at times it makes the pen and the windows button to stop working too until I remove it and they come back right away. It doesn't connect well and chances are there are safety measure in the firmware like shutting down usb power or partially disabling some inputs and sometimes it just hangs there (no on screen keyboard) until you force shutdown! it's so weird I've completely switched to a bluetooth keyboard now, it's just not very reliable overall.
thekiddfran
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So glad they got intel into the surface. That i7 is going to be a beast in that thing.
he did. You can rewind the stream btw
Anton Sugar
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It's all REALLY cool for me...but I don't know how some of these features are going to make it more enticing to the general public. Especially since 7-8" tablets are the rage right now.
killer rin
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I think that might be the article
blue pond - target professionals that can afford this and can appreciate the larger screen and features, but nobody else is really competing in that space. Makes sense. They'll still have surface RT as well
zephervack
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Yep, look at the market share of the Surface compared to other products on its category, who cares it is from Microsoft, they just want to be number 1.
djplaeskool
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"Starting at $799"
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Well, you got your wish.
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