Microsoft Surface Pro to launch in U.S. and Canada on February 9th starting at $899

6. devildlm1 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:02 7 0

I agree. For that price, they should at least throw in the cover!

15. joey_sfb posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:58 0 1

No a bit surprise on its pricing. Microsoft's bill gate stand on stage with a windows xp tablet edition in the year 2001.

Acer was the first to manufacturer the windows xp tablet and request M$ to lower the licensing fee. $200US per copy is too much. M$ refuse of course.

That's why i surprise there are microsoft fanboy around. I not a fanboy because i paid a lot for their product and services.

22. phones522 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 19:12 1 0

Agreed for that price you could just get a touchscreen windows 8 laptop

23. Edmund posted on 22 Jan 2013, 19:17 2 0

Why? It is a full fledged tablet PC with an i5 processor onboard.
The Surface is a lot more useful than the ipad or any android tablet currently on the market, so I think the price justified

29. haseebzahid posted on 23 Jan 2013, 07:57 0 0

surface price seems hig but reasonable maybe but for keyboard covers its way too much over priced 100$+ for keyboard cover its extortionate when it costs them 10$

27. btbotimtim posted on 23 Jan 2013, 05:14 0 0

I would purchase LG tab book. In US$, it is about 800 - 900.

11. carlosechev07 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:39 1 1

It's more laptop than tablet.. I think it will suffer the same way laptops right now.. slower sales and canibalized for pure tablets form factors..

13. PhoneArenaUser posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:47 1 1

Dilemma, laptops are turning into tablets or tablets are turning into laptops?! :D

8. GhettoSquid posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:09 4 0

You can certainly get a cheaper or more powerful notebooks than this, but as far as a two pound, 10" tablet with a low voltage Core i3/i5 processor goes, this is one of the cheaper ones. The immediate competitors for this category is the Samsung Series 7 for $1200 and the Acer W700 for the low side at $800. Given what the Surface Pro has or doesn't have, it's priced correctly.

The Nexus 7 and 10 are great devices, but in terms of capabilities and processing power, the Surface Pro would tear them a new one.

7. duwiegeneral posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:07 1 1

inovation cost @ mick 25

9. pfroo40 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:31 0 2

OK, buy a decent i5 laptop for $600 and buy a good 10" tablet with 64GB for $700.

$1300 for both, or $900 for a Surface Pro?

Or, buy an ultrabook with equal specs and still pay $900+ just for that alone.

14. carlosechev07 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:48 1 0

Surface Pro is a laptop with the keyboard, the real price is $1030.. I think is a lor expensive to be marketed as a tablet..

10. darac posted on 22 Jan 2013, 17:38 1 0

What a laptop has over this?
This IS a laptop, when you pair a keyboard in

25. VZWuser76 posted on 22 Jan 2013, 22:45 0 0

I'm having the opposite experience with windows8. At this point I'm thinking of picking up a copy of win7 & loading it up. The way its setup it hamstrings everything (for me at least).

I went to play a video the other day. I wanted to stream it to my laptop and send it to my tv over the hdmi output. I could play the video in desktop mode, but they don't allow hdmi out for video in desktop mode. No problem, I'll switch to tile mode and do it that way, right? Nope, in tile mode it won't stream the video. So I go back to my old Vista laptop and try the same scenario that I first tried. Works fine. So to give users the same experience as if they had their phones, they've actually limited the functionality from previous iterations. I should've followed the old rule (every other release of windows is the one to get, ie win98, XP, win7, etc.)

26. Edmund posted on 23 Jan 2013, 00:25 0 0

I'm sure Microsoft have plans to ditch the desktop completely, but the timing isn't right.