djplaeskool
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Microsoft to hold a "small" Surface event | 20/5/14
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Sir_Crocodile
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$800 for an I3? Which will end up £800 no doubt.
No way
No way
jetpacks was yes
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He did eventually.
The Elite
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Didn't he go back and add it with the typepad?
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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Bummer, no mini
Anton Sugar
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Pretty sure he put the type cover on later and put it back on the scale, and the scale didn't budge.
He added the typepad afterwards.
thekiddfran
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Why? The type cover is an add on to the tablet. You can type on it without one.
Damn you!
Doc Holliday
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wtf wtf wtf they switches from Wacom to n-trig. Ugh I beg Wacom was charging for way too much money to license the tech. This was almost the perfect art tablet. Fu ms, fu Wacom.
Sir_Crocodile
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i3, i5 or i7?
Market share is only a useful indicator in markets with commodities (e.g. toothpaste or paper goods). It was a mistake for B-schools to try to transfer that to the tech industry considering the distinct differentiation that exists in product categories. It's not an "either or" proposition with hardware as it is with Colgate and Crest.
In the hardware space, you have two paths:
1. The high margin game.
2. The low margin scale game.
The low margin scale game in the PC space turns out not to be a great place to be in, and it's in fact the very reason that Microsoft jumped into the hardware space.
They didn't do this to be a loss leader. They did this to define a vertically integrated experience that ties software, services and hardware together. They can't beat Google at the free services game, and they can't be just a sole OS player anymore.
Crow noted and eaten. GG, Microsoft.
digitizer downgrade makes this not very appealing to artists now, they shot themselves in the foot...
pretty sure he did.
pretty sure he did.
Did they? That's a mighty shame.
I assumed it was MS Surface mini event as mini event rather than Surface Mini product itself.
I thought he said "loaner"...
Aw, crud.
Was looking to get someone an art tablet and was waiting for the SP3 announcement.
Guess I can wait to see if the Pro 2 goes down in price? (yeah right)
Yeah, he ain't keeping that thing haha
dem
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They said something like 15% more than surface pro 2
Doc Holliday
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According to Engadget they switched to n-trig. Probably why it only has 256 levels. Does if mean the pen has a battery now? Ugh
What? Source? :/
Betta Lines
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Well it can turn on the device from far away, so it has a battery in the pen this time. And he mentioned only 256 levels of pressure.
Meh, I have a Surface with a Wacom digitizer and my girlfriend has a Vaio Duo 13 with an N-Trig digitizer. There really isn't much difference between the two, especially not now that Photoshop is working with N-trig. In fact in some ways, N-Trig is much better like for example that it actually works close to the edges which is really important on smaller screens such as the Surface's.
show me your skeleton
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so no mini? that is... really weird. also the lack of wacom sucks. can you still use a wacom (from a surface 1 for example) or is that not how it works? haha.
Sorry! I was following the Ars liveblog and I didn't notice that update.
Pro 1 is still great except the battery life
And im excited to play with the new digitizer... the wacom one was so fucked and it could never be calibrated perfectly. Drove me up the wall.
Anton Sugar
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I'll make a Pro 3 announcement thread unless anyone else really wants to.
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anton sugar, you are the chosen one.
Chums Knifeblade
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Whats the battery life on the Surface pro 2 like? Also does it do that annoying thing where it wakes up when the type cover touches the screen?
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