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Microsoft Surface Pricing

Way too much money, I can custom build a PC with way better specs better than that. Considering other tablets are atleast $200 lower in price, I guess they really want Windows 8 to fail on all fronts.

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You can attach an exterrnal display....

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IMHO, way too much money...

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When can we pre-order as I'll be looking to get a 128GB version and this will become my carry around rig, whereas an Alienware MX18 will remain my doing real work from the hotel beastie.

The wife has pretty much laid claim already to my RT, so the timing works rather well for me.

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I agree. Considering it can essentially replace a desktop and is far lighter than a laptop, the $899 price is reasonable.

As with ultrabooks, your'e paying for portability. Weight is huge consideration if you to carry it around most or all of the day.

While I would agree that the price points seem to be a good value, I would think Microsoft would almost be willing to give these things away for free. Not really, but they have a tall mountain to climb and price could mean the difference between success and failure. If Microsoft blows this, it is really going to hurt the company. They need a hit and they shouldn't be making a dollar of profit from any tablet they sell at this point, even Intel based. They need apps for the RT and they really need Metro apps for the Intel based product too. They aren't going to get many developers unless people start owning a lot of these. The advantage the Pro version has it that two decades of apps that already exist and it is my feeling that they should take advantage of that.

Some news on the Surface front:»www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2412729,00.asp

reply to Boricua65
Way too expensive to break into the market.

reply to Kramer
The Pro is not Windows RT - it's a full windows tablet. As such there is no "market" to "break into" - there just aren't any other full tablet OSes out there. This is the ONLY game in town if you want laptop performance and capability, in a touch tablet form factor.

This isn't some crippled walled garden. That's the SurfaceRT/iOS/Android space. I agree that if they really wanted to penetrate that space they should have taken a huge loss on the RT surface - $249 maybe. Or $199. But this, this is something else completely.

There isn't much compelling reason to go RT over Pro IMHO... which is probably why they delayed the launch of Pro for a few months just to see if the RT tablets had any hope at the "$500 or so" price point.
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You didn't read my post carefully enough. I completely understand the difference. Metro itself on WIN8 needs a lot of help. That's the direction Microsoft wants us to go in and the apps they have provided are only mediocre. What does everyone want to do when they experience Windows 8 for the first time? They want to get rid of Metro and add a start menu to their Windows Desktop. That's because for now, Metro has little to offer. There is nothing especially compelling and few of us have touch screens. Metro is the future that Microsoft has prescribed for us, not Windows.

The Intel based Surface could do a lot to open the door for the acceptance that Windows 8 has yet to receive. With the device, there is a benefit to finding ways to do things with Metro but if not, you can always fall back to Windows. If they sell enough there is a benefit for developers to spend their time, whether it be on the ARM or Intel based Surface. I just think Microsoft needs to lose a little money here with the big picture in mind. The touch screen has become widely accepted by the world for personal computing and Microsoft has been 99.9% left out. They are so late, it is ridiculous. Whatever the platform, Microsoft needs to sell a lot of these really fast.

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More on price!

»www.geekwire.com/2012/microsofts···-tablet/

I didn't realize how cheap the touchscreen Ultrabooks had become. It is going to be a tough sell, especially without a keyboard.

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JohnInSJ , tablets are tablets. Microsoft is competing with the iPad in this space no matter what anybody thinks, says, or wants to believe. The market perceives the iPad to be the ultimate tablet. The Surface Pro is going to be competing with the iPad and with Ultrabooks. The way to break into the market is to either convince everyone that your product is so vastly superior/cool/whatever, that everybody wants to buy one, or, price it so cheap they have no choice but to buy it. Microsoft has done neither, so, now we'll see what happens. If the Surface RT sales are any indication, the future isn't bright.
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