[SmokingJoe]

The rest at the link

[chrisser]

These “list” articles where you have to click a new page for every item are getting tiresome.

I hope Information Week recorded that I hit the first page and then left the site.

I don’t mind a few ads, but lately it’s getting ridiculous. Perhaps those paying for their ads on pages 2-10 will reconsider their buys.

[Slump Tester]

"Consumers aren't used to thinking about chipsets."

I liked that. As a whole, consumers are pretty stupid and will just shop price. (Remember back in the day when Cyrix sold souped up 386 CPUs and called them 486DLCs?)

[Hodar]

Part of the function of any tablet, is it’s portablility. These are primarily LEISURE devices, like reading a book on a plane, train, in bed - where you neither have space, nor a flat surface. When deployed, the Surface takes up about the same real estate as a laptop.

It seems like MSFT is again attemptiong a “1-size fits all” solution. And as such, I do not predict a succesful launch. The “Pro” version utilizes a 140 watta chipset - and with the form factor, this will be a screaming machine - for about 20 minutes. It has top venting (hint: you do not want excess heat in a highly mobile device).

There is a reason they did not release resolution and/or battery life - these are not strong selling points.

Part of any wise professional’s skill set is knowing when to use the right tool for the right job. Laptops/Netbooks/Ultrabooks are great productivity tools - they are not the same thing as conventional Tablet. Tablets are handy LEISURE tools, they are great for movies, music, games, books - in bed, on vacation, on a plane/train - and with ~10-100+ hr battery life (iPad, Kindle etc) they work very well for this purpose.

[BubbaJunebug]

Make sure when you buy one....buy a back up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-pMZd1fupw

[Magnatron]

This unit looks pretty cool - and I’m an iPad addict. That said, I would definitely consider switching platforms if Microsoft announced that they would manufacture these things somewhere other than a slave labor camp like Foxconn. Better yet, they should make them right here in America.

[smith288]

[dayglored]

Just a comment... I know how excited you are about Surface. And you're entirely free to post as much of this advertising as you wish. But, as someone who is interested in Surface, and who is completely overwhelmed by a week's worth of repetition of the few bits of information about the proposed product, I'd like to point out that:

• A product that does not exist cannot have "cool features". Vaporware can have "proposed features" and "specifications" and many other things, but talking about the device as though it exists and has actual features is hype. Advertisers do it all the time, because they love wanking about vaporware, but the rest of the world doesn't believe it until the product is real.

• In order to exist as a real product, a device must a) have a price, and b) be available for purchase. Otherwise, it's just talk. This is true for all such "pre-announcements" whether done by Microsoft, Apple, Tesla autos, Cold-Fusion reactor companies, or anyone else.

• FR's Microsoft fanboys have lost all credibility regarding complaints about the advertisement threads posted by the Apple fanboys. :)

• It's going to be difficult to keep up this rate of advertising hype for the next 3-6 months until Surface actually surfaces. If you plan to do so, I offer the observation that the only people still reading the advertising hype will be the Microsoft fanboys. All the rest of us -- including those like myself who started out interested -- will be long since bored silly with hype about Surface, being thoroughly inundated with redundant stories about vaporware.

Meanwhile, post all the advertising you want.

There's an old joke about a woman who was married three times and was still a virgin. When a friend asked her how this could be, she explained:
  "My first husband was injured in an accident on our wedding day, and unfortunately he was unable to perform.
  "My second husband turned out to be gay.
  "And my third husband was a salesman."
The friend asked, "What was the problem with him?"
The woman answered, "He never actually did it. He just sat on the edge of the bed every night, telling me over and over in detail how good it was going to be."

Just sayin'... :)

[aimhigh]

Vaporware? What is the screen resolution? There is too much missing info to take the product seriously yet.

[SamAdams76]

Maybe we should wait until these things are actually in production before trying to determine "10 Coolest Features."

We are still months away from actually seeing one. In my opinion, Microsoft made a blunder by announcing it so soon. Now Apple has a 5-month window to design their own version of the kickstand, keyboard cover, etc., and they might even get it out sooner.

[Cementjungle]

I’m very happy with my Samsung Galaxy 10.1” tab... excellent device.

[ctdonath2]

And now...Google's adoptive tablet, the Nexus 7 just announced!

A lively year for tablets, which seem bent on catching up to where the iPad was.