Posted on 05/27/2014 11:15:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
So 8 Gb free after Windows and a 1GB ram that is full all the time. It’s not a tablet; it’s a brick.
Could be interested - it’s mostly a toy, but what the heck. Interesting is that Microsoft still hasn’t released Touch Office for anything but the Mac. I’m wondering how this one will deal with that. Thanks for posting and BTT.
1 GB RAM? So, I can’t really run FileMaker Pro or Adobe Creative Suite 4 on it. Heck I doubt I can run WordPerfect X6, Microsoft Excel 2013 and Waterfox at the same time. The previous poster who said “brick” was right.
No thanks....It’s got that win 8 crap on it
Can you wipe it and load Android or Linux?
in before the mac snobs.
bottom line prices are dropping.
Better yet when they fail to sell, the price will come down even more. Supply and Demand works with computers as well.
Dell has a decent Windows tablet for $ 280 or so, I think. I like Android tablets, but I looked at the Windows tablets when making my choice.
I didn’t think they allowed advertising on FR........
Great. Now if they offer a discount by subtracting the 129 dollars it costs for ‘doze 8.1 from the price, I might be interested. I would install the DSL distro or Puppy Linux on it at the very least and then run some benchmark tests and publish the results.
My main question would be about built-in obsolescence, like iPads, which must be returned for a “new” iPad once the battery goes to crap.
I don’t appreciate ongoing implied contracts like that.
I won’t buy anything Toshiba. Why? Remember or maybe you don’t, Toshiba sold the USSR computer software that could be used to mill silent propellers for submarines. Back during Ronald Reagan admin.
Props that wouldn’t cavitate and make noise underway.
Made tracking Russian subs much harder.
I’m not sure who the good guys or bad guys are anymore either in the geopolitical world or the tech world. Maybe there just aren’t any more good guys period.
This isn’t designed to be a full-blown PC. This is designed to compete against the Kindle Fire HD (which my wife loves) that is a web surfing, facebook updating, app games playing toy.
They claim they're reinventing the laptop with this tablet.
Surface Pro 3 comes with a 12" display, Windows 8.1 Pro, an Intel i5 processor, 8Gb RAM, and 256 Gb HDD. There's a slightly enhanced model for $1799.00 that doubles the drive space.
I'm unsure who in their right mind would choose to buy one of these Surface Pro 3s at that price point over a MacBook Air for almost $600 less for almost identical features, or a MacBook Pro against the high-end Surface Pro 3.
What you'd be getting is an i5-based Windows 8.1 pen/touch tablet that costs $1500.00+ and has less power/performance/features than a larger screen full featured Windows 8.1 budget laptop that costs half the price. And for the money you're shelling out for the high end Surface Pro 3, you can almost get the top of the line MacBook Pro.
Before anyone spends a plug nickel on the new Microsoft Surface tablet, they better go look and see what happened to the early adopters of last year's Surface RT tablet.
Seems that industry onlookers are dubious in the extreme.
$1200 buys you a very capable laptop.
I guess what this form-factor is selling is primarily light weight and secondly, depending on model and specs, battery life.
Personally, I’d rather tote the heavier laptop and pocket the savings, but I guess opinions vary...
1gb RAM? Will that even run Windows 8.1?
probably true
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