Microsoft Surface

[Xenolightning]

Cost on the surface pro??

Dignity

[Codex]

This thread needs more dick stroking

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

, there is also a slightly harder, thicker, blacker keyboard cover.

 
How come no one made a joke about this.

I'm disappointed.

[Bell]

Why is this even a discussion?

Because the discussion about which tablet is best is irrelevent when they are all shit and pointless.
It's also fun to shit on brand-name fanbois

[Pyromanik]

Hah that's what apple fanbois say [...] and it just works!"

Had a guy ask me today if there was an app for email.
Apparently it doesn't "just work".

[toofast]

Because the discussion about which tablet is best is irrelevent when they are all shit and pointless.
It's also fun to shit on brand-name fanbois

They seem pretty handy for use on the move, where it becomes a bit impractical to have stable place to setup.

[Bell]

That's what smartphones are for imo, if you are trying to be seriously productive on the move you are doing it wrong.
The only thing you can't really get done on a smartphone well that you can on a tablet is watching movies and looking at pictures.
If you are going on a plane or a long car/train journey then sure its nice but given how often most people do that is it really worth $500-1000 to you?

I just don't see how a tablet is that much different to a small laptop as far as mobility is concerned, I can't fit either into my pocket so I wouldn't want to lug them around day to day.

[Retardobot]

When I settle in for a titanic shit, I have to spread my legs and plant myself firmly to the bowl and adhere myself to a position which I wont easily move from.

Using a laptop in this scenario is impossible because I have to have my legs closed in order for it to rest upon my legs. Closing my legs seriously diminishes my shit busting power.

I can accomplish powerful turd hammers with what I call a 'power-stance' when at the porcelain throne, and I can get this done by being able to hold a tablet in one hand, mid air because everyone fucking loves surfing and shitting.

And if you don't, you're a god damn terrorist and you deserve to die.

Tablet - 1, laptop - 0.

BRB, going out to by a Surface Pro.

P.S, Microsoft, contact me. You're marketing this thing all wrong.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Retardobot knows the target market.

[AintNoMeInTeam]

So Retardobot is saying the marketing for the Surface Pro should be to people with serious shit to do.
Just saying, but i think this is who they are already marketing it to.

[BerG]

What we need is advertisements with hot women taking a shit.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

The RT at Harvey Normans/JB is about $120 more then the pricing in the US.

Might be worth looking into getting it shipped over.


I'm considering getting the RT version.

For people who have/are considering the pro version, what x86 apps would you be running?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Cost on the surface pro??

Looking at US$1000

[Growler]

so $1800-5000 here?

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

so $1800-5000 here?

Did the exchange rate just go crazy?

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That's what smartphones are for imo, if you are trying to be seriously productive on the move you are doing it wrong.
The only thing you can't really get done on a smartphone well that you can on a tablet is watching movies and looking at pictures.
If you are going on a plane or a long car/train journey then sure its nice but given how often most people do that is it really worth $500-1000 to you?

I just don't see how a tablet is that much different to a small laptop as far as mobility is concerned, I can't fit either into my pocket so I wouldn't want to lug them around day to day.

I meant the surface in particular with its support for x86 in work environments, so you can run specialist apps. I think it would be pretty useful for engineers/electricians who often have to wire up directly to devices to set them up, and they are usually in locations that don't really do too well with a laptop. That being said the price point is fairly high for this added convenience.

In regards to this whole using a tablet to watch movies/pictures/web. Who the hell would pay $500-1000 for that? I got my tablet for 190, and that was dualcore 720p IPS screen. And if you were someone who didn't care that much about res/cpu speed, you could easily pick one up for closer to $100.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I meant the surface in particular with its support for x86 in work environments, so you can run specialist apps. I think it would be pretty useful for engineers/electricians who often have to wire up directly to devices to set them up, and they are usually in locations that don't really do too well with a laptop. That being said the price point is fairly high for this added convenience.

Is it? $1200 for a laptop would get similar specs as the surface pro.

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Is it? $1200 for a laptop would get similar specs as the surface pro.

I guess you are right. I am a bit out of touch with laptop prices. Seems like only the sub$1000 market has really hit great value for money.

[AintNoMeInTeam]

one random thing I want to try is to see how well it works with a PC xbox controller playing some (lightweight) steam games. It could come in handy for some casual gaming when on holiday

[O-L-W-A-G]

The iPad is nice as a general purpose replacement for consuming media, small documents, emails, Skype, managing servers, browsing the interwebs etc because it is so portable and the battery life is insanely long. I personally load the tablet up with movies, music and buy a small data pack when going down to the bach for the summer. With a laptop you have to either sit, stand or half lie down half sit but with a tablet you can be in pretty much any position you like.

I have no real reason to keep the netbook at the moment as the raspberry Pi has been a very good replacement for coding. If anything intensive needs to be done I can use my gaming desktop. My mates have been sinking between $1000-3500 on notebooks when I got the iPad 2 64GB + 3G for $1000 on the Playtech Boxing Day sale. Tell me which is more cost effective? Bear in mind that they could get a surface pro($1200) if they wanted Windows or they could get a iPad mini($479) if they wanted to do simpler stuff.

[BerG]

IPAD? FANBOI RETARD MENTALLY RETARDED LOSER WHO DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO WORK TECHNOLOGY. GO SUCK OFF STEVE JOBS CORPSE. CLEARLY YOU WOULD WANT TO DO THAT TOO. DICKHEAD. GO COMMIT SUICIDE OR SOMETHING, YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT IPAD USER.

[Pyromanik]

^astronomical butthurt.

$100.

I call bullshit.

My mates have been sinking between $1000-3500 on notebooks when I got the iPad 2 64GB + 3G for $1000 on the Playtech Boxing Day sale. Tell me which is more cost effective?

"My friends got proper computers for $1000"
"I got an ipad for $1000" ... "ON SALE".

umm...

[toofast]

I call bullshit.

http://www.dhgate.com/ultrathin-7-cutepad-capacitive-q88-android/p-ff8080813b5faf47013b64a1c77c6d26.html#s1-20-null

Not a bad device. Not dualcore, nor 3g, nor HD screen. But give that to most people who just want something basic (browse web, watch movies, read pdf) and it will do the job. Really though you want to be looking at the $160ish mark, to get the dual core 1gb ram HD screen.

Also nice job cutting out the words closer to $100 (as in a about $100-120).

[O-L-W-A-G]

"My friends got proper computers for $1000"
"I got an ipad for $1000" ... "ON SALE".

The majority of people buying notebooks are paying $1500, an android tablet or the cheaper iPads can be a third of that. I got the most expensive model(because I need the 3G and 64GB) which was at the time $1200 ish so for $1000 it was a steal. Most people would only require a 16GB wifi only tablet, they only need it to browse and type occasionally.

I am not a fanboi, have an android phone and had an android tablet. I find the play store apps aren't as refined but it is open, iOS would be useless to me without a jailbreak and the devices have more support from devs.

[Codex]

If you're going to piss around jailbreaking your ipad or iphone just to get the features available on both other platforms then you may as well get the other platforms.