“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.”
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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
Even if Microsoft bought Dell, merge with AOL, rehired the “Dell Dude,” and started sending me dial up Internet CDs every couple of days, they would still be in a better position than they are today. I simply can’t believe how inept of they are.
The story is so funny. If a writer would write this in a novel everybody would say that’s not realistic. Only the Big Monkey can make this happen and so he did. What a price! And a mouse. Love it.
Ballmer! Best CEO EVER!
Thank you,
The information you have shared is very informative.
Isn’t this just a laptop?
What’s the point of a tablet if you are just going to make it a laptop again?
Thus has got to be the most biased and uninformed piece of “news” I’ve read in a while. Vents are on the side, you dont need to have the kickstand open. There are two types of keyboards, one is a real, clicky keyboard. If you search pricing options for other devices it is priced very competitively. It has the exact same specs as a MBA and is cheaper, even with keyboard included. The mouse is obviously overkill but USB mice are cheap.