Microsoft Surface
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- CALLES0
cant wait to go to the Apple Store and try it
- hahahamonospaced
- these will be available at the bon marcheprophetone
- Naygon0
- brilliant
maikel - It needs the stand as well, or it will topple over =\BuddhaHat
- Brilliant. On all levels and meanings.monospaced
- but the laptop doesn't come with a stylus or a touch screen so it's really unfair to compare them. Hahahahamonospaced
- hahaha amazing!Hombre_Lobo
- awesomethatblokemike
- wow, that's awsome. haha...Mr_Right
- *not to scale
the surface's body is as thick as a pc laptop screen, the keyboard, thin sheet of rubberalbums
- brilliant
- pizzafire0
- OuchSalarrue
- ooooo unlucky! it is still in production but this is painful!Hombre_Lobo
- Jesus christd_rek
- Poor gayqoob
- couldn't they just wait until:
a) they fixed the problems?
b) they're ready to sell them?monospaced - vapourwareanimatedgif
- like you can't search apple keynote fail on googlealbums
- hahahahahahahaKnuckleberry
- Microsoft = Dumb Fucksutopian
- they had a spare one.
good thinkingdrgs - discomfortbenfal99
- He shouldn't have ran over. He should have kept talking while switching.ETM
- pablo280
- Newton?Luda
- bullshit, everyone hated on the ipad when it was announced. "giant iphone"inteliboy
- Lol great pic.Hombre_Lobo
- The UI is what matters not the tablet formatanimatedgif
- Apple did it well, that's all that matters.********
- qoob0
^This doesn't give Apple enough credit though.
Tablet PC was just regular Windows with a touchscreen and a pen. It's really designing the software and entire experience that made the iPad unique.
- < bingomonospaced
- you mean enlarging the iPhone made it so unique?!?!vaxorcist
- they set standards that work for a touch interface, something nobody was able to do well beforemonospaced
- it took them years to perfect and lots of R&D, not to be taken lightly, taht's for suremonospaced
- not to mention designed their own processors to make the experience quite amazing, something competitors can't match even stillmonospaced
- I like how vaxorcist says it as if he could have come up with the idea. Funny how obvious things are when smarter people figure it out firstanimatedgif
- it out firstanimatedgif
- Archos, had one of those 10 years ago and it worked just fine.zarkonite
- somehow mono doesn't consider himself a fanboy.DrBombay
- hold on, I am definitely a fan of Apple's products and design, but I am still objectivemonospaced
- i won't accept "dumbed-down into an arrange icons to grid with limited interaction" as uniquealbums
- more a closed systemalbums
- Apple took what Palm did and created a closed ecosystem. So where are the Palm kudos.ETM
- apple did not design processors. they just rebranded intels.mekk
- They sure as hell did design ARM processors for their mobile devicesmonospaced
- d_rek0
Whether you like MS or not you can't deny sexy product design when you see it.
Personally, I think the device itself is very attractive. However i'm skeptical at best when it comes to Microsoft software. After using OSX for so many years now I can no longer subject myself to the myriad stability and performance issues that are accompanied with PC hardware that is run by a Windows operating system. Until they can make the OS bulletproof -in the sense that performance doesn't degrade drastically over time and running the software I require relatively reliably- then I probably wont be monkeying with anything other than Apple product for some time.
- You are full of shit. Windows 7 is just fine.DrBombay
- You're probbably correct, since i haven't used a windows machine for any extended period of time in a while.d_rek
- But my most recent experiences with win7 haven't been all that satisfactory.d_rek
- Windows Phone OS makes iOS look like shit.nb
- thank goodness we're not talking about the Windows Phone OS heremonospaced
- detritus0
Microsoft have spent the last two decades trying to be all things to all people - ostensibly, for the consumers benefit, actually for their own monopolistic intentions.
Apple, on the other hand, have spent the last decade trying to create restricted-use consumer items that fulfill a base set of criteria, but otherwise lock the consumer in to a resticted environment. Apple's reasoning is ostensibly to create a problem-free environment for their consumers, actually for their own monopolistic purposes.
Apple's game was smarter - they not only got their monopoly. but they locked consumers into an environment where they're happy to pay 30% Apple tax whilst claiming they're on a better, freer, more creative and individualistic platform.
Microsoft were last decade's bad guys - Apple are this and the next's.
*shrugs*
- I keep forgetting how deep we are into the new millenium - MS were the 90s bad guys Apple the 00/10sdetritus
- Google and Facebook are OS agnostic – they don't care what you buy, as long as they can sell that info to someone else.i_monk
- sorry, what 30% apple tax?monospaced
- don't be obtuse, mono.detritus
- I know what you mean, but these days it's hard to say they're overpriced considering what you getmonospaced
- gorgeous hardware aside, the free software is worth a tonmonospaced
- I was more meaning the slice of software, audio, video and now eBook revenues they skim from every purchase.detritus
- it's debatable whether the customer is really impacted that greatly theremonospaced
- They definitely are with lack of choice on who to buy from. There will be no convincing you though.DrBombay
- Every reseller imparts a markup in order to make profits. That's how things work. It's not unique to Apple.monospaced
- but there won't be any convicing you because haters gonna hatemonospaced
- good observationutopian
- Creating artificial barriers to guide people to your particular store is a shitty business practice.DrBombay
- But I guess I am just a hater. How dare I criticize apple! (clutches pearls)DrBombay
- where apple and android are killing it is app market share. they are free/cheapBonSeff
- how is windows gonna compete running 8? where are people gonna $1-10 apps?BonSeff
- letterhead0
MS vs Apple aside, isn't this going to piss off other MS hardware partners like Acer, HP etc? I thought they always worked together on creating products and, if Im not mistaken, this would be MS's first hardware + software product.
- except for the xBox and various other failed productsmonospaced
- You are such an Apple cheerleader it is pathetic.DrBombay
- Xbox is far from a failure, it's a pretty great console with solid 3rd party support and great exclusivesernexbcn
- I'm not cheerleading for Apple, dude. I was pointing out a hardware/software offering from MS, that's all.monospaced
- definitely cheerleading for appled_rek
- I also didn't say Xbox was a failure, I was pointing out its success actually. And how am I cheerleading for Apple again?monospaced
- I didn't say you were cheerleading, but you said "xbox and other failed products"ernexbcn
- Monospaced is such a fanboy that he can't even see it! :)ETM
- ernexbcn0
I want to know prices, screen resolution, release dates and battery duration stats.
Until then it's all talking and nothing else.
- animatedgif0
- they renamed the old Surface to PixelSenseernexbcn
- Just a reminder that MS has a bit of a track record with bullshit products. Shocked they didn't launch the new surface properly after that shamblesanimatedgif
- after that shamblesanimatedgif
- ernexbcn0
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thats what is going through my head when i read the questions in bold in the articleBonSeff - Jerry Seinfeld Voice: What’s the deal with the touchpad?DrBombay
- I posted that before I clicked ur link, Imadick, ur awesome.DrBombay
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- BonSeff0
anything apple is better than everything in the history of things, ever.
-there ya go, dobo- pizza is better, argument invalidprophetone
- apple pizzaBonSeff
- iSlicemonospaced
- jessica alba, at your door at 2am, holding a pizza saying "i'm bored..."prophetone
- was it ordered on an ipad using the dominos app? maybe only thenBonSeff
- WTF, Dominos?? Ghetto pizza.ETM
- tredesigns0
they out appled apple with the keyboard/cover
- but I still wouldnt by eithertredesigns
- but did they out Apple the Air?monospaced
- different speciesprophetone
- different species... that's debatablemonospaced
- If one more person compares a tablet to the Air... BHAM!... fork in the eye.ETM