it has a real Windows desktop and works extremely well. If you are working from your desk you can use the USB ports and connect to a full size screen, pick as your heart desires. If you are on the road, I've had no problem working on my Surface. The only issue is when I have an excel document with a significant number of cells to review, but you can just magnify the screen and you're all set.
but why would you do that if you can get it all in one machine? Sounds like you're drinking a little too much of the Steve Jobs kool aid. He's talked you into feeling you can't have it all in one device, when it's becoming more and more obvious that you can. A tablet isn't an iPad, Kindle or Surface. It's a form factor and the fact that early iterations only allowed it to be good for web browsing and email. Surface changes the game and allows you to have the form factor with the powerful PC guts. iPhone changed the game for phones and I can see the Surface doing the same for the Tablet form factor.
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Surface is not their big bet for 2013, it is a small cog in a massive Windows 8 world. So to speculate that MSFT is in a downward spiral based on Surface is off base. Windows 8 touch devices are really just now starting to hit the market, so until the full array of devices come out, I find it difficult to evaluate performance. Also, you need to separate out Surface RT from Pro since they are very different machines, if you are comparing iPad and Blackberry to them.
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How is your $500 laptop going to compete with the Surface Pro? What does it have that the Pro doesn't? Your generalizations are embarrassing and I get you don't like the form factor, but to say your $500 laptop can do more than the pro is just foolish.
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Really? Most Apple products sell for less than $1000? The iPad 128GB is selling for like $999, all of their laptops are well over $1000, same with their all in ones. Your view on Apple pricing is very skewed.
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when you say poor performance of MSFT software, what do you mean? Office? Windows (1.2B installs worldwide)? Both are critical in the business world today and are running on most Fortune 500 companies.
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davel: yes they do have agreements already with Verizon FiOS and Xfinity for their on Demand. It will only be a matter of time before they take over for live TV as well. Xbox is profitable now thanks to their online services with Xbox Live, they were losing money, but it's the other services they offer with subcriptions and advertising revenue where they make it back. Also, mobile gaming will never take over for console gaming, the processing speed just isn't fast enough and now that Xbox Live is on the PC, they can work that market as well. Mobile and tablets are great for basic games, but they more intense first person shooters are much more engaging on 42" screens. Which is the average size TV for Xbox Live users.
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some of us don't need free! We feel that hard work and good products are worth a little money. Typically things that are free when it comes to technology, make you pay for it in other areas. Like all the ads you get hit with on the Android network. You're also paying for it with the data they continue to take from you through Gmail and then resell to the highest bidder. So don't kid yourself that Google is doing this for the betterment of mankind, there is a reason their stock is around $800. Nothing in the consumer space is truly free.
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why do you have so many devices? Do you carry them all with you? Most people prefer to have less devices to lug around and that is what MSFT is trying to do. I have only Win8 devices now, Lenovo Idea Centre at home, XPS 12 laptop, win phone 8 and Surface RT. They work seamlessly and when you actually use Skydrive, I have access to all my stuff no matter where I am. 7GB for free, that is awesome.
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