Is it a tablet, is it a console, no it's a........

Del Lardo · 19-06-2012, 00:47

Surface!!!!

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx

Pretty impressive so far.......

Flibster · 19-06-2012, 01:39

Certainly does. Loving the keyboard cover.

Will it drag me away from getting a Asus Transformer Infinity? I don't know, it might.

LeperousDust · 19-06-2012, 17:26

Gonna muddy the water for other manufacturers making products though surely? Do Microsoft pay themselves to use windows

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Looks pretty decent though I must confess, I'm still waiting for my perfect Ultrabook, hate the way the term is attached to almost everything now days, I still haven't found an ultrabook that is decent enough for what I want... Acer might be changing that though (swerve ball from them took me by surprise!)

Garp · 19-06-2012, 21:37

It's a much needed move from Microsoft. The OEMs have been letting the non-Apple market down drastically. If Microsoft can figure out how to do this, and do this well, it should shake things up quite a bit amongst other manufacturers. We need the serious competition in the field, not "we can get away with it" crap.

Pumpkinstew · 20-06-2012, 11:57

The keyboard is clever but they need to do more to distinguish between the RT/arm models and Pro/x86 models.

To most consumers the difference won't be obvious.

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