If you don’t mind visiting the Huffington Post, here is a similar article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/surface-vs-ipad_n_2079990.html
Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft’s New Tablet Is More Profitable Than Apple’s, According To Report
EXCERPT:
Microsoft and Apple are garnering the highest profit margins for their tablets, followed by Google and then Amazon, according to research firm IHS.
Microsoft Corp.’s first self-made tablet, the Surface, costs about $267 in parts and labor when excluding its optional keyboard cover. It went on sale Oct. 26 priced at $499, for a profit margin of around 46 percent. Surface comes with a 10.6-inch (26.9-centimeter) screen measured diagonally, and can access the Internet only through Wi-Fi. The price is for its base model with 32 gigabytes of memory.
With a similar configuration, the Surface bakes in slightly more profit for Microsoft than Apple Inc. did when it released its third-generation iPad in March.
There is a difference between profitability and gross margin. You’d never know that from reading this article, though. Cost of goods is but one aspect. I suspect cost assumptions are predicated upon a certain volume of sales. Sales volume over time has yet to be determined.
So, misleading article, again, in order to trumpet some similarity to Apple. Sort of pitiful, really.
1366x768 screen vs 2048x1536
year old tegra 3 chipset vs apple’s custom designed latest ASIC
Yep, Surface — it’s “The IPAD for DUMMIES”
And to prove that assertion, just consider 90% of the folks buying it think they can run regular x86 windows programs on it. Not that Msoft is doing anything to inform the customer this is not the case...they insist it’s “one w8 platform”.
Yeah, right. If you believe that, you DESERVE to be banished to Msoft land, forever. Don’t bother the rest of the productive world.
We recently bought some laptops with windows 8. The interface is horrid! Amazingly bad. We had to “retro” the interface on all the machines. Everyone hated it!