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Someone above said you can move the recovery partition to a USB stick
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So why, then, isn't Microsoft including a recovery USB stick, or recovery SD card?
If I'm paying a thousand dollars for a screen (not including keyboard, of course- that's an extra 150), why should I be limited to only 2/3rds of useable space?

I mean, a Windows 8 install CD can fit on a 4GB SD card or USB stick (especially if properly compressed); and you can get those for 5 bucks off-the-shelf. Wouldn't be too hard, and would certainly increase goodwill (surely you could just charge 1005 dollars instead) towards your consumers.
 
[citation][nom]rwinches[/nom]Please provide the link that states Surface Pro comes with MS Office installed.[/citation]
Even on MS's own site they have a footnote that says Office must be purchased separately. So that 45GB does NOT include Office.
 
[citation][nom]merloin[/nom]You buy a 128 GB drive, and once formatted, eats away 8GB alone. Then by the time you install the base OS and some applications, I imagine it'd be close to the 85 - 90 GB remaining range, if not a little less.[/citation]

Yup. I have a 120gig sanforce gen 3 drive and with hardly anything I'm at 82. so 85-90 for a 128gig sounds about right!
 
[citation][nom]smfrazz[/nom] Ars and Anantech will be my primary Tech sites since Tom's is slowing going downhill.[/citation]

Anand is probably the single best person to report on recent technology, period. Anand the person, not the website. Although the site is amazing tbh
 
Why do companies do this? I'll give you another example: the "Nook Simple Touch", that comes with 2 GB storage, can only hold about 250 MB of your own e-books! But then why are they advertising it as 2 GB then?? False advertising at its finest...
 
[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]There's a difference between 45 GB of an OS plus useful software, and an OS plus shit-loads of trial/bloatware.What I found on my N61Jq laptop when I first purchased it:-Free Piggy Game that requires payment beyond the first level? -A marriage game that breaks the registry if you uninstall incorrectly?-Norton Anti-Virus trial? -A facial identification log-in that can be tricked by a simple photo? -A BIOS flash software that never works?-A monitor color/setting adjustment software that has less features and more bugs than the already-installed AMD CCC driver?-A backup software that is worse than other freeware software?-A DVD burning software that I'll never use?-A shortcut link to Amazon and eBay?NO![/citation]

there's also a big difference between buying a 64gb of android/ipad tablet vs 64gb of surface tablet. a whooping 44.5gb! android os only eats up 500mb plus >100mb of useful apps. While ipad only eats up 2gb. 45 gb is a waste of usefull space. it's stupid to buy surface because it has 64+gb!
 
I don't know. Call me crazy but the first thing I do when buying ANY computer is format and reinstall a clean copy of the OS. Why should the surface pro be any different?

My 128GB SSD gets formatted to about 111GB. After Windows 7-64bit is installed and tweaked (reduced page file, turn off (or move) system restore I end up 96 GB. Right now with all my basic programs, office, and far cry 3: 36.6GB Used 75.09GB free.

People need to learn to organize their stuff better and stop becoming so dependent on MS and the OEM to tell you what you need installed.
 
Why would they include a recovery partition on a tablet? It should have at minimum 100GB of free space, ideally 110GB. Give users the option of creating their own recovery partition. For a tablet it is still probably enough space at 83GB, especially with USB drives, external drives, cloud, and everything... but it is shameful to have that much space taken up default.
 
If the 8GB swap file and 5-8GB hibernate file (for 8GB RAM Surface Pro with fast startup) is counted then it's not that bad.

13-16GB on both files + 16GB Win8 + 16GB recovery partition (hope there is one) = 45-48GB or
8GB swap file +16GB Win 8 + 16GB recovery partition + 5GB "stuff" = 45GB
 
Is a big lose to eat 45 Gb from the expensive SSD storage. Maybe the best thing was to include a cheap USB stick with restoring data, and also to choose wat application you want to be installed from default, because many people don't use all the applications that comes preinstalled on a laptop. On PC windows 8 takes < 10 GB.
 
[citation][nom]bigdragon[/nom]45GB of used space right out of the box? That is insane! What a bunch of crap! I can install Windows 7 64-bit, Office, and Visual Studio while only taking up less than half that much space.[/citation]

Right. "Half". Good luck with that!
 
[citation][nom]bebangs[/nom]there's also a big difference between buying a 64gb of android/ipad tablet vs 64gb of surface tablet. a whooping 44.5gb! android os only eats up 500mb plus >100mb of useful apps. While ipad only eats up 2gb. 45 gb is a waste of usefull space. it's stupid to buy surface because it has 64+gb![/citation]

Some like the real deal and not the stripped down bare bone that's left in the other mobile/tablet os's, if you think it's stupid to buy a car - by all means get a bike instead - Its the freedom of choice! That is the difference here - Full fledged OS or stripped down os.

For me a stripped down OS is more like what Dr.Evil would have said it:
"Your the one calorie OS - Not os enough!"
"Your the quasi OS - Not os enough!"
"Your the diet OS - Not os enough!"

Most people think its a fair trade to loose some space and the IT experienced people counted on it judging by most comments here, the surface pro is pretty much a real computer with a real OS so why think its different in storage needs?
 
Guys, this is a FULL computer, not a lightweight tablet OS.
It can run a full MS Office, Lightroom, Photoshop, Visual Studio ... and you can even easily run virtual PC's Inside! Comparing this with lightweight tablet OS's is like comparing Apples, Jelly Beans and blackberries with ... well ... something that can't be eaten ;-)
When your iPad memory is full, well, you have a full iPad and neet to sit and wait for an Apple Keynote announcing a bigger iPad. Here, for 100eur, you can get a 128Gb SDXC card that you can leave Inside your surface tablet. You end up with a 256Gb-45Gb tablet ... What do you think Apple would be Apple's premium between a 64Gb iPad and a 160Gb iPad.... 300€ difference ???
 
Assuming it has a MicroSD slot (I would NEVER buy a phone or tablet without one) then why does anyone in their right mind not buy the smallest drive space version and then just stick an large and cheap MicroSD card in the sucker? Only lame Apple products gouge customers with $100 upgrades for larger amounts of internal storage. Only suckers buy Apple products, lets be honest here.
 
[citation][nom]keither5150[/nom]... I will be getting one once they have a 7 or 8 inch version with over 250GB space. I will be waiting a while....[/citation]

Just don't hold your breath for this one...
 
Like some others already commented, the space taken seems larger than expected. I am no stranger to limited space of an SSD and it does look like Microsoft has installed additional non essentials junks on the SSD to take up 45Gb. It should be more like taking up 20Gb-25Gb.
 
[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]Ahh, some little cry baby upset? Amazing I could post a FACT about Office not being included (according to Microsofts website) and some loser down votes me. Here's a link stating so:http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/e [...] -me-choose[/citation]

You didn't follow your own link: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/business/home

"Preview edition installed. Final Office Home & Student 2013 RT version will be installed via Windows Update when available"

I'm not sure what the size difference is between the Preview edition and the Full edition, but most likely the Preview edition takes up a lot of space.
 
[citation][nom]jeffjwatts[/nom]You didn't follow your own link: http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US/business/home "Preview edition installed. Final Office Home & Student 2013 RT version will be installed via Windows Update when available"I'm not sure what the size difference is between the Preview edition and the Full edition, but most likely the Preview edition takes up a lot of space.[/citation]
You didn't fully comprehend what you read. The footnote is tied to the Surface RT paragraph. The Surface Pro description was left hanging.
 
what is with people on here.... you have people that hate apple, hate microsoft and the minute I mention where the 128gb SG3 is people go nuts and mark the comment down? LOL kids around here need a life.
 
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