Microsoft Surface Pro 2: We Go Hands On

[jackbling]

A legitimate replacement for the non-sense that is ipads in enterprise.

 

[stevejnb]

A legitimate replacement for the non-sense that is ipads in enterprise.

I hear you there. If a company feels it *needs* a tablet format for work devices - a dubious prospect to begin with - a tablet that is basically a media consumption toy is just not a good pick. Apple tablets - if you take away their Apple-premium-markup - are actually neat devices for a lot of purposes, but serious work is not one of them. Trying to wrestle with a bunch of half-arsed apps to do things that full desktop programs do exceptionally well is just a waste of everyone's time.

 

[Deo Heerai]

It's too expensive for what it is, the new 11 inch touch ultrabooks will be just as portable ,powerful AND cost hundreds less. At 900 bucks this thing is a FLOP just like its predecessor . Microsoft will NEVER learn , as a lifelong windows user I am fed up and taking a hard look at Android products ,they are forward thinking and will eventually bury the dinosaurs at MS . Time for Google office , that will be the final bullet in MS's archaic brain.
Call it euthanasia

 

[RedJaron]

To MITCHELLVII... I think the Pro is aimed at mobile business users... which is what I am. You've got good points regarding the silly pen mount and the screen size being a limit... but I never use the pen and I've found that the screen is still workable for most basic content creation (Office apps, Photoshop, etc...). I even have VS.NET installed and it runs great... but I wouldn't want to do any real development on it. I've been getting more Pro's for Scientists in my group... it turns out it's just about an ideal box for IP Capture (think of it as an Electronic Lab Notebook). It's a great tool for certain uses, and I don't miss my ultrabook a bit (it does almost everything better than the little HP elitebook I had), but it's not meant to be a general purpose machine. It ended up allowing me to get rid of both the Elitebook and my iPad, and while it's not quite as slick a tablet as the iPad... it can do a whole lot more of the things that I need in a mobile system.

With this new dock, I can see this becoming a general purpose machine. Tablet on the go when you need it, dock it for desk work on a better display.

 

[hannibal]

I would really much like to see Wacom tablet! A tablet that you can use to read your email, look videos, read e-books, make notes etc. and allso use as an drawing board with good pen!
It would be really a worth of something!

 

[back_by_demand]

"I would really much like to see Wacom tablet! A tablet that you can use to read your email, look videos, read e-books, make notes etc. and allso use as an drawing board with good pen!
It would be really a worth of something!"

There is a tablet just like that, its called the Surface Pro
http://pocketnow.com/2013/05/13/surface-pro-digital-artists-dream