“Surface Windows 8 Pro will be available for purchase on Feb. 9 in the U.S and Canada starting at $899 for the 64-gigabyte version,” AppleInsider reports. “The Surface Pro comes with a Surface Pen and is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor.”
“Microsoft will also launch new Surface accessories in markets where the tablet is still available,” AppleInsider reports. “They are three limited edition Touch Covers, as well as the Wedge Touch Mouse Surface Edition.”
MacDailyNews Take: “Wedge Touch Mouse Surface Edition.” (smirk)
AppleInsider reports, “The new Touch Covers will be available in red, magenta and cyan for $129.99, while the Wedge Touch Mouse will be $69.95.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Hey look, it’s the thick, heavy, way overpriced, OS-limited “tablet” with mechanical fans and ugly vents that requires a desk (for its “kickstand”), a keyboard, and a mouse!
DOA.
Obviously, smart buyers would choose an 11.6-inch MacBook Air with Parallels (if you’re still forced to slum it with Windows at times).
Bigger display, better looking, better battery life, better security (OS X, option to run crappy Windoze and Windows progams in a sandbox), access to all the world’s apps (Surface cannot run OS X or OS X apps), better, more responsive built-in keyboard, built-in “touch mouse” (Magic Trackpad), etc. – and all at a better price: starting at US$899.98. Even a 13.3-inch MacBook Air starts at only $1,099.98
And a lone cricket marks February 9th on his calendar.
Ah the smell of Zune on the surface of the AM! Cough! Cough! 😝😷🏃💨
Speaking of Microsoft…
Gates Foundation Vaccines Involved in the Paralysis of over 40 children in Africa…
http://vactruth.com/2013/01/06/paralyzed-after-meningitis-vaccine/
That’s a website for nutters.
No Shit, Red Ryder! It’s totally amazing that someone with absolutely no professional training in either Chem, Pharm, Biol, or Medicine thinks that they can spout such nonsense.
Those antivaxxers who propagate the notion that the MMR vaccine causes autism are the most crooked liars of the bunch. There is absolutely no truth that the MMR has any link to autism. They don’t realize that an autistic child will grow up and mostly thrive but measles can kill you if you don’t have the vax. I lost a boyhood friend because there was no vax in the 40s.
/rant
After Gates infected the world with Windows, this is just the next step.
on soap box:
If Gates really wanted to improve the lives of starving children, he would work much more aggressively to reduce the overpopulation. Charities that ship in food and medicine under the title of “humanitarian aid” merely prolong the agony of overpopulated regions.
The only help that actually benefits the downtrodden poor would be refugee evacuation and birth control education. Stop the cycle of overpopulation by not artificially propping up those who cannot sustain themselves, and watch as the disease & misery is eliminated naturally as the population declines. It works for every other species on the planet and it is absolutely the most humane thing to do.
I don’t imagine that anyone at Microsoft really thinks that this hardware will compete with the iPad. It is for those doofi (plural of doofus) who think that they cannot live with Microsoft and would never buy something manufactured by Apple. It is just another form factor, one that will sell millions in the long term. Millions, not hundreds of millions.
doofi who cannot live without Microsoft. /ed
Good one, with the plural!
In German, the word doof means “dumb” or “stupid.”
SUCKER should be carved on the forehead of any idiot that wastes money on this.
Thats not a tablet, thats a laptop, and one with a bloated operating system and I’m positive it will need anti-virus software to keep it operating since it can run regular windows programs, that would include windows malware also, am I right?
Attractively priced … only about $150 more than an entry-level MacBook Air which runs Windows and Office.
+1 +1 +1 +1 you get the point….
It’s still Windows and it still will suck.
Dead on delivery.
No one will buy that!
EPIC FAIL.
Microsoft’s only truly successful products are Office and Windows. All other stuff started out as serious money losers, and for the very few that haven’t been a complete failure before they were cancelled (Bob, Zune, Kin…), MS kept sinking truckloads of money into them for years, until they turned into reasonably decent products (X-Box). Office continues to bring in cash, but Windows has effectively been retired, and in its place, the new Metro stuff has been introduced.
The new Windows 8 “Metro” platform may likely follow the path of MS’s struggle with mobile (Windows CE, Pocket PC, Winows Mobile…): for over a decade, MS has been trying to figure out how to build a usable mobile OS. Or with X-Box: for almost a decade, MS has been sinking money into the platform, hoping to eventually create enough market share to eventually break even on software. While the physical platform is still a massive money loser (hardware is still sold below cost), at least the division is now making some meager profits ($19m on $1.9B revenue — 1%..!!).
I cannot imagine MS having the luxury of ten years’ time to develop Win 8 “Metro” into something people would eventually want to buy. This was possible with a mobile platform, when the market segment was in its infancy, and it was a small piece in MS’s giant Office-Windows duopoly. It was also possible with X-box, where MS went out of its core market to pursue new markets, bankrolling the thing with continuous stream of cash from the two big cows. But now, one of the two cows has become this huge development project, and they simply cannot afford for it to be a money loser for the next ten years.
MS should consider themselves very lucky if they don’t become the laughing stock of Silicon Valley (as well as Wall Street)…
Where on Apple’s US website is there a new new 11″ MacBook Air for $899.98? Or the 13″ Air for $1099.98? -RC
Click or tap the links that MacDailyNews has so helpfully provided.
Go to Apple store, far left and down to refurbished units.
You have to monitor this place as items come and go. GREAT values at times. My last 3 laptops have been from here. Looks great, run great, and always 150 -250 $ off. Full warrantee and I get Apple care so all is covered.
refurbs are the way to go. Bought an eight core Mac Pro five years ago with 30″ monitor, and they’ve been trouble-free since (with heavy, almost daily use). The only way I could tell they were refurbs were the different boxes. Great way to get excellent equipment and save considerable dough.
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I take it you’re laughing AT them, rather than WITH them.
It’s my Dr. Evil laugh. Ballmer, the nut owner, will be looking at a huge pile of unsold Surface Pros.
With a Zip drive and a 5 1/2 inch floppy available at extra cost.
Don’t forget the Parallel Port, how am I supposed to use my printer without a Parallel Port?
Oh and SCSI too, I hope they include a free Terminator block!
Tflint & RataMouse – hilarious – thx
64Gb Surface Pro with what, 23Gb of usable storage? The same 3 letters came to mind for me too – DOA. The high SP price for notoriously cheap PC users? are you kidding? It’s the same rarified atmosphere for a decent MacBook Air and so why would you? Even PC users aren’t THAT stupid. The whole point of a tablet or iPad is affordably priced, not a full OS and as a result highly priced. A findamental marketing goof. A loud and long cruel chuckle ensues for the idea this will sell in any large numbers even on first launch day. Market share in rounding error percentages.
Now i gotta dig my sleeping bag out of the attic because im definitely camping out on the 8th! This is epic!
Microsoft has officially commandeered the short bus of the tech world.
A mouse. ROFL!
These people are stuck in time.
Of course if I could produce a product that would sell to the anti-Apple segment of the tech market, and earn just a couple of bucks off each unit, I could retire today.
How big and heavy is the S Pro? If it’s as fat and heavy as I imagine, then it really might make the distinction to a MBA or Ultracopybook, indistinguishable. That’ll make even more people realize if they already haven’t, that tablets are great laptop replacements.
Sure, the MacBook Air costs less, but it doesn’t have snappy, snappy, snap-snap commercials!
Those commercials are a major marketing flop.
MS must be broken up or the CEO for life will take it down.
When the Surface Pro comes out on Feb. 9th, try not to look at them for lengthy periods. Handicapped people don’t like to be stared at.
A keyboard…
How quaint.
Thanks. First real smile of the day.
LMAO. I can just visualize Scotty sitting in front of Surface with one of those touch covers, then getting rattled that the “bloody keyboard” doesn’t even respond well. 😉
Mind you, I’d love to have the option to use my Apple Magic Mouse with the iPad. Could be very handy at times. Come on, Apple, stop blocking this option in iOS!
What I find astonishing is how MS is trying to position this Pro version. It’s more of a laptop with touch capabilities anyway, with full-blown (or bloated) Windows 8. Then there are those who will plug the thing into an external monitor and USB keyboard and the entire tablet becomes a touchpad. That’s even more laughable. All for over a grand.
At my local Best Buy, which is not always a great bellwether of how things are going for products, they have sold exactly 3 Surfaces since they started carrying them. The sales rep said he sold one over the weekend and had to wipe the dust off the thing. People come in and ask about them, but they always leave the store with an iPad.
…and analysts (let me stress ANALysts) continue to talk of Apple’s downfall like it’s 1997 or something. Is there something wrong with this picture?
MDN: Obviously, smart buyers would choose an 11.6-inch MacBook Air with Parallels (if you’re still forced to slum it with Windows at times).
Or crank up Boot Camp Assistant, make a ‘Doze partition, infect ‘Doze onto the partition, boot to it and there you go. The best touch gesture trackpad in the business. No stupid mouse.
We are witnessing the onset of severe Alzheimer’s at MegaloManiaSoft. Is it sad? Or is it hilarious? Yes.
Always nice to see Microsoft double down on failure.