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How's it work for things like streaming media out to external speakers or video receivers at your house? What do you use? Is there something built in? I'm guessing that if it is, then it requires an Xbox. Even though it's running on ARM, are you planning on running AV and Anti Malware software on there? That seems like a big problem with their Intel version of the Surface. I played with an Asus RT tablet the other night at Microcenter and found working within Windows Explorer with my finger to be maddening. Do you find yourself punting to the smart cover when you need to make a new folder? Does the start screen/metro portion of the OS make enough sense for touch that you think it was worth it for Msft to integrate it so deeply into the desktop OS? I really want Windows 8 to be something cool and useful...something that could really replace XP running in a VM for those times I need it. Right now, I'm not seeing the love. Oh... - I'll never understand the "it has office it's for creation" comments in relation to the iPad since you can read and write in Doc format from Pages. - I'm a big fan of using the Apple Wireless Keyboard with the iPad. It's the same keyboard they give out with iMacs and can't be beat. Check it out if you end up ditching the surface. - You *really* would have thought that Microsoft would have avoided getting heat from the EU and DOJ by not jamming Bing down as a search provider. Last edited by DaveNull; 10-27-2012 at 09:10 AM.. |
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10-27-2012, 02:02 PM | #3 | |
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Keep in mind that I'm still playing with this so don't have it 100% figured out, but I will do my best to answer your questions. And for the record, I have been using iPads since the first one came out. Answers will be in red.
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10-27-2012, 01:37 PM | #4 |
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Well that didn't take long...
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10-27-2012, 02:37 PM | #5 |
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Pictures of the nexus 10 leaked. It looks very samsungy, which isn't a compliment. Boo
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10-27-2012, 04:23 PM | #6 |
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Surface is lame, very unintuitive. iPad Mini is a ripoff. These "tablet wars" suck.
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10-28-2012, 06:23 PM | #7 | |
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As I stated in the OP, I felt both the iPad mini and Windows RT would be meh. Windows 8 tabs should be a huge deal but not until after the new year... and really only huge for enterprise customers (although I see them quickly making consumer inroads if the prices are manageable) |
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10-29-2012, 09:33 AM | #8 | |
That's just f***in' stupid
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10-29-2012, 03:26 PM | #9 |
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10-29-2012, 03:27 PM | #10 | |
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That price point is ridiculous. |
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10-29-2012, 03:39 PM | #11 | |
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The cool part about this is that unlike Apple's bullshit, these prices won't be locked in. More and more hardware vendors will come online with this and drive prices down eventually. So even if these start at $2000.. who cares? The prices should drop fairly quickly. |
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10-28-2012, 09:57 AM | #12 | |
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Was doing some more reading on the surface and came across the software update process:
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10-28-2012, 10:15 AM | #13 | |
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10-28-2012, 07:56 PM | #14 |
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I'd be very surprised if we saw any price drops. From all the leaks, Google is discontinuing the 8 gig model, and making the entry level 16 gigs. And the higher end will be 32.
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I am holding out hope for Google to try to sell something decent in the $99 - $150 range... but even if they don't and instead only offer a badass Nexus 10 at a sub $350 price... that is a huge price drop from any other "premium" tablet on the market. |
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