And here it is, the battle between two former giants of the computer industry can begin. American Microsoft founded by a friend of Steve Jobs Billem Gatesem, now led by CEO Steve Ballmer, introduced its own tablet called Microsoft Surface. The new product will be released this fall along with the operating system Windows 8, which is supposed to be the focal point of the entire tablet. Microsoft will offer two versions of its tablet, one weighing 680 grams, which will be a direct competitor to the iPad, and the other weighing 910 grams, whose price will correspond to ultrabooks. While the lighter version will offer an ARM processor, its heavier sibling will be based on Intel processors.
Interestingly, Ballmer stated during the presentation that so far what Windows The RT model will focus on competing with the iPad, while the slightly thicker model with an Intel processor will compete with ultrabooks and will also bring a FULL HD screen. So he really wants Microsoft compete with the iPad, which has a display with a resolution of 2048×1536 pixels at 264 ppi, with a device that doesn't even offer FULL HD resolution? Microsoft Surface will feature a magnesium-based tablet surface. The company calls this technology VaporMg, which allows for a slim, solid body. Both tablets will feature a keyboard that also covers their body. Microsoft The Surface weighs 1,5 kg, has a PVD finish and has a 10,6″ display.
What fight? In my eyes, they only presented the devices, but did not say the most important thing. Availability and price. Battery life wasn't even mentioned, so it probably won't be anything special, especially with the Intel processor. More or less, it's just so that investors and partners can see that we're doing something. To silence or calm down everyone around the carrot software.
As far as I'm concerned, they are really quite creative http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
Maybe I wasn't impressed by the appearance, the renders that looked like Lumia were much nicer
http://www.wphone7.cz/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/nokia-lumia-tablet-s.jpg
13:39 in the video number 2. Somehow it doesn't work for him there, neither does WIN HOME the button doesn't work, he pressed it maybe 15 times, finally it died :)))) haha. Ok it's just ultra beta last minute version.
It weighs only 676 grams. fix it ;)
you have a mistake there, it weighs only 676 grams ;)
the presentation is terrible, they don't believe the product themselves. but what probably no one noticed is that he talks about the body being Liquid-Metal
12:50 says it clearly there
HD resolution is enough for many people, see iPad2. Not everyone works with graphics. I see that even Microsoft not quite its own, see magnetic cover and similar toonewhich magsafe. I don't think the version competing with ultrabooks will be successful, but we'll see.
The keyboard isn't a completely useless idea, but an iPad is an iPad and most importantly iOS it just is iOS :-)
I don't see, I have mixed feelings...windowsI'm fine with the tablet now, I wasn't impressed with the metro either windows The mobile and the whole tablet seem seamless to mecarMcGiver's knife, it breaks down into four pieces and can do everything until it's too much, I find the iPad undemanding, you don't need any additional keyboard or flip-out stand... for me the iPad with Smartcover is still the best :)
and what on earth is full hd for on a tablet? hd ready is more than enough...
They say everything we already know from the iPad. They think they have come up with something revolutionary, but they are rather behind.
Tommy: are you kidding me? compare an iPad and a G Tab and you'll see how huge a difference it is
...only Horst Fuchs and teleshopping are wrong there
Someone from Microsoft Labs played with the iPad and SmartCover for so long that he came up with something like this, as expected. Otherwise, I hope it's Apple he will sue for everything. :D
I don't know, but in the past there were a number of tablets that were supposed to threaten the iPad... HP, Samsung, Kindle... Unknown price, unknown durability - probably nothing to brag about, otherwise it wouldn't be a secret... Availability? Sometime in the fall, maybe? Apple, when he introduced something, it was on sale within a week... So that it is not another bubble that will collapse in time……………………. So that there was no iPad 4 before;-)
marketing move!…
terrible nonsensechat intel for the tablet - how do I want to cool it down? only if I underclock it and then what's the point???
THIS IS TYPICAL WINDOWSACKY ACCESS!!! pick up where it goes and then let God help you or some iteckar - aaaand you can brag that it has ivy bridge!
Good luck...- wasted money (pre microsoft)
again, I like the idea of a soft keyboard in a case... but only for a tablet - it will never replace a laptop!
palm recognition from the stylus is also good - but that's a software thing.
but at least it's a video like a classic MS presentation, so that a device that runs a certain version of Win doesn't freeze, it wouldn't even be MIcrosoft, and the guy pressed it there :D erm erm moment... I'll take the others and it goes on like this is really WIN's approach, let them be gifted like this and end up in the dustbin of history... and like the most ingenious integrated "facepalm" stand, it's so beautiful there that a person doesn't know where it will catch it by chance and the whole machine flies, the division into "normal" and "pro" is also only for the sake of extracting as much money as possible, what to add Microsoft never learns
it will probably be a machine with those intel cpu... otherwise the keyboard looks really interesting..
and suddenly you don't know what kind of SONG it is in the 1st clip?
The Smart Cover keyboard has something in it. I think it worked, it could take some time. It's the first MS tablet, so let's be a little cautious :-) when they release version 3, if at all, let the Android platform with the whole Samsung shake.
So the tablet freezes at 13:40 p.m., there is no problem with restarting, not working, and the next replacement of the tablet :))))
That keyboard is nice…
Otherwise, I'm missing any further information, everyone is talking about how it's an iPad killer and yet no one knows anything about it... No one knows what the synchronization will be done through (it's not WM so it's probably something new), no one mentions 3G either, battery life is rubbish... Will it be an iPad killer like every other tablet these days? It doesn't have any support from the developer (no SDK for W8 has been released), what will it be like app, how will they be available and through what... MS has already buried the device... It might not be bad, but no one knows anything about it yet...
People, be a bit objective :) We are on Apple website, however, it is very interesting that under the post that Roman posted a few days ago about a "hands-on preview iOS 6", no one was surprised that the system and applications collapsed in one go, which is commented on in the post by saying that this is completely obvious, since this is a beta that is several months before release. Hmm, interesting that this behavior is not tolerated in a beta of an MS product that is at approximately the same stage of development :D
Personally, I'm curious about the new tablet and I certainly wouldn't condemn it in advance. It will definitely find its clientele, and it will mainly be the little things that will decide the success or failure of its mass expansion.
My guess is that Apple it will remain a better choice for "content consumers", or people who take gadgets Apple as part of their "life-style".
The way I read it, I guess no manufacturer in the world can introduce anything new. After all, everything in the world is just a copy. Applol!
Guys, be a little objective