Surface 2: A Look at the Hardware Inside

[WilliamK101]

I like the improvements they have made to this device. As Windows 8 improves (big improvement already with 8.1) so will the availability of apps for this. Win8/RT are still relatively new systems.

 

[g-unit1111]

Thank god I don't get held to account by you then, the price is not too high for either device, in the class that they occupy they are comparative or even cheap - when challenged that a Surface Pro costs more than an iPad for example by "other" commentards (not you) then of course it is, the Surface Pro competes with high-end ultrabooks - the RT competes with the iPad and its only flaw I can see is a smaller App store that is almost ridiculous to compare when nobody uses more than around 50 apps anyway and almost all the top 50 are there and much less shovelware

So you may be an MS fan, but to say Surface is overpriced, when you use the correct comparative, you are wrong

Am I an MS fan? Yes. Do I own Apple products? Yes. Will I re-evaluate my posting habits? Not a chance, go fish with the mods if you really want to petition for a ban.

I'm definitely not knocking the Surface down for pricing, compared to Apple's 128GB iPad 4 which is nearly $1,000, to have the 64GB Surface with a 64GB micro SXHD card for less than $400 is an absolute steal. And I'm not knocking the hardware either - Microsoft was very wise in choosing the Tegra 3 platform, it's worlds beyond the Apple A5/A7 platform in terms of what it can do. What really makes it frustrating is that you cannot use x86 apps, and even certain methods around using ARM only (which I won't mention here :lol: ) fail to work around the ARM platform. You're pretty much locked in from the minute you buy one. I like the Surface Pro - which does run x86 apps - but that is overpriced when you compare it to a fully functional laptop equivalent or a third party Windows 8 tablet.