Microsoft Surface

[vicky84]

Microsoft forays into tablet market with a new product called Surface. It looks promising and powerful. Probably you may not need to buy Laptops in future. Thus saving you money.
Lets wait for further details on RAM etc.

Comparision with iPad:



Here's the breakdown:








Spec

Surface RT

Surface Pro

New iPad (Third Generation)



Operating System

Windows RT

Windows 8

iOS 5



Weight

1.49 lbs

1.99 lbs

1.44 lbs (Wi-Fi model), 1.46 lbs (Wi-Fi + Cellular model)



Thickness

9.3 mm

13.5 mm

9.4 mm



Battery

31.5 W-h battery, no word on battery life

42 W-h battery, no word on battery life

42.5 W-h battery, 10 hours of life on Wi-Fi, 9 hours of life on cellular



Storage

32 GB or 64 GB

64 GB or 128 GB

16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB



Ports

USB 2.0, Micro SD

USB 3.0, Micro SD

Charging port



Processor, RAM

Nvidia ARM processor (no specifics on speed yet)

Intel Core i5 (no specifics on speed yet)

Dual-core 1GHz A5X, 1 GB RAM



Data Connection

Wi-Fi only

Wi-Fi only

Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi with 4G LTE, or Wi-Fi with 3G (depending on country and carrier)





Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-and-ipad-specs-comparison-2012-6#ixzz1yNq24pMx


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[vicky84]

Video on Surface launch:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCmudUDv3GA

[DrRajpalSingh]

Microsoft forays into tablet market with a new product called Surface. It looks promising and powerful. Probably you may not need to buy Laptops in future. Thus saving you money.
Lets wait for further details on RAM etc.

Comparision with iPad:



Here's the breakdown:








Spec
Surface RT
Surface Pro
New iPad (Third Generation)


Operating System
Windows RT
Windows 8
iOS 5


Weight
1.49 lbs
1.99 lbs
1.44 lbs (Wi-Fi model), 1.46 lbs (Wi-Fi + Cellular model)


Thickness
9.3 mm
13.5 mm
9.4 mm


Battery
31.5 W-h battery, no word on battery life
42 W-h battery, no word on battery life
42.5 W-h battery, 10 hours of life on Wi-Fi, 9 hours of life on cellular


Storage
32 GB or 64 GB
64 GB or 128 GB
16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB


Ports
USB 2.0, Micro SD
USB 3.0, Micro SD
Charging port


Processor, RAM
Nvidia ARM processor (no specifics on speed yet)
Intel Core i5 (no specifics on speed yet)
Dual-core 1GHz A5X, 1 GB RAM


Data Connection
Wi-Fi only
Wi-Fi only
Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi with 4G LTE, or Wi-Fi with 3G (depending on country and carrier)




Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-and-ipad-specs-comparison-2012-6#ixzz1yNq24pMx


Please post your views.

Very interesting news! Thanks Friend for sharing.

[anilsangwan]

Bhai,
worst thing about Microsoft products is the virus...कितने भी धूप बत्ती - गंडा डोरी कर ल्यो एंटी वायरस की.... वायरस लागे बिना रह इ कोणी..... अप्प्ल आल्या की चीज़ में यो वाईरस आला खांसी खुर्रा कोणी होवे...... मस्त सौद्दा स ipad ....


Microsoft forays into tablet market with a new product called Surface. It looks promising and powerful. Probably you may not need to buy Laptops in future. Thus saving you money.
Lets wait for further details on RAM etc.

Comparision with iPad:



Here's the breakdown:








Spec
Surface RT
Surface Pro
New iPad (Third Generation)


Operating System
Windows RT
Windows 8
iOS 5


Weight
1.49 lbs
1.99 lbs
1.44 lbs (Wi-Fi model), 1.46 lbs (Wi-Fi + Cellular model)


Thickness
9.3 mm
13.5 mm
9.4 mm


Battery
31.5 W-h battery, no word on battery life
42 W-h battery, no word on battery life
42.5 W-h battery, 10 hours of life on Wi-Fi, 9 hours of life on cellular


Storage
32 GB or 64 GB
64 GB or 128 GB
16 GB, 32 GB, or 64 GB


Ports
USB 2.0, Micro SD
USB 3.0, Micro SD
Charging port


Processor, RAM
Nvidia ARM processor (no specifics on speed yet)
Intel Core i5 (no specifics on speed yet)
Dual-core 1GHz A5X, 1 GB RAM


Data Connection
Wi-Fi only
Wi-Fi only
Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi with 4G LTE, or Wi-Fi with 3G (depending on country and carrier)




Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-and-ipad-specs-comparison-2012-6#ixzz1yNq24pMx


Please post your views.

[vicky84]

Bhai,
worst thing about Microsoft products is the virus...कितने भी धूप बत्ती - गंडा डोरी कर ल्यो एंटी वायरस की.... वायरस लागे बिना रह इ कोणी..... अप्प्ल आल्या की चीज़ में यो वाईरस आला खांसी खुर्रा कोणी होवे...... मस्त सौद्दा स ipad ....

Bhai Microsoft kept this project(Surface) secret from its manufacturing partners and rest of the world. Microsoft has learned from apple to have own hardware and software for tablets. So there is tight intergation between Hardware and software. In the past, Microsoft has been involved in manufacturing hardware. But it has been a roller coaster ride. Successful product like XBOX and a failure product like Zune.

I must admit that Microsoft is still 2-3 years behind apple in tablet market. But still i see it a very good start. Lets see how customers feel about this tablet.

[deependra]

Bhai Microsoft kept this project(Surface) secret from its manufacturing partners and rest of the world. Microsoft has learned from apple to have own hardware and software for tablets. So there is tight intergation between Hardware and software. In the past, Microsoft has been involved in manufacturing hardware. But it has been a roller coaster ride. Successful product like XBOX and a failure product like Zune.

I must admit that Microsoft is still 2-3 years behind apple in tablet market. But still i see it a very good start. Lets see how customers feel about this tablet.
Let's see how it goes, but Microsoft has always been a failure whenever it jumped to hardware. Not sure what is the price which is a big deciding factor.
Lack of apps will also be a downside, I believe.

[anilphogat]

Xbox and Kinact are very successfull hardware products of MS, and this also looks great(also has its own apps store.. like ipad). although MS has bad experience with tablets, pricing will be the key for the success of this product.
It's the end of an era. Or maybe the start of a new one. main thing is that they wants to be in hardware for its windows which is now competing with android to hold its market share.

[vicky84]

Lack of apps will also be a downside, I believe.

Yes I agree with you. Microsoft has acknowledged the fact its the apps which derive the success of a tablet. Comparatively Andriod and other open source communities, Microsoft developer community is much smaller. Microsoft has also sidelined .Net for apps development. The focus is more on Javascript and HTML 5. Microsoft's MVC is open source. So probably the community will become bigger as the time passes. The other factor which may dominate in future is the investment in cloud.

[deependra]

I bought Kindle Fire last year and it's really good product, should say value for money. There are few features which are lacking like Camera- making it unsuitable for video chat, lack of 3G, less battery life. But overall, I liked the product and the only thing I wish they could have improved is the screen size which is 7'- making reading a bit difficult from PDFs.

[DrRajpalSingh]

Let's see how it goes, but Microsoft has always been a failure whenever it jumped to hardware. Not sure what is the price which is a big deciding factor.
Lack of apps will also be a downside, I believe.

Friend,

You have raised valid questions to be kept in mind while deciding the purchase!!!