The official Surface Pro 2/Surface thread

[finbarqs]

Yay or nay? updated specs, is it enough to entice you?



Please keep your comments technical in nature - although yawning is allowed - and avoid snide comments which could be interpreted as trolling
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[VulgarDisplay]

Did they announce the price yet? If they want the Surface to gain traction it needs to be around $500. If not then yes it's a yawn.

 

[Red Storm]

I find the Pro 2 intriguing, and I actually don't like Windows 8 much at all. But now that it has Haswell... well, I will consider a Pro 2 when I shop for a new laptop this holiday season.

The RT will not take off, again.

 

[RandomFool]

Looks great to me but it's not worth upgrading my Surface Pro.

I want to know if the power cover is backlit as well, that's about the one thing announced I'm interested in buying right now.

 

[Red Storm]

Looks great to me but it's not worth upgrading my Surface Pro.

I want to know if the power cover is backlit as well, that's about the one thing announced I'm interested in buying right now.

You mean the Type Cover 2? It will have backlighting.

 

[Ns1]

Did they announce the price yet? If they want the Surface to gain traction it needs to be around $500. If not then yes it's a yawn.

$899 for pro.


If I get my gold iPhone soon, I'm unloading it on eBay to buy a surface pro 2. LOL

 

[RandomFool]

You mean the Type Cover 2? It will have backlighting.

Nope, the power cover. From the pictures it appears to be a type cover with a built in battery but there aren't many more details about it since it's not due out until early 2014.

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/pre-order#scroll-2

 

[Ravynmagi]

$899 for pro.


If I get my gold iPhone soon, I'm unloading it on eBay to buy a surface pro 2. LOL

If you can unload that soon, you could probably buy two Surface Pro tablets and still have enough left over for a black iPhone 5S.

 

[Ns1]

If you can unload that soon, you could probably buy two Surface Pro tablets and still have enough left over for a black iPhone 5S.

About $1k - $1300 on eBay. I bet when the next wave of gold's come in, prices will drop. Hopefully they'll stay @ the 1k mark.

 

[Phokus]

Dumb question, i was reading up on the original Surface tablet and it says only programs from the Microsoft store could run on the tablet. For the Pro version, can you run normal windows/non microsoft store applications?

 

[Ns1]

Dumb question, i was reading up on the original Surface tablet and it says only programs from the Microsoft store could run on the tablet. For the Pro version, can you run normal windows/non microsoft store applications?

yes. it's basically a windows laptop that converts into a tablet.

 

[dougp]

Dumb question, i was reading up on the original Surface tablet and it says only programs from the Microsoft store could run on the tablet. For the Pro version, can you run normal windows/non microsoft store applications?

Pro version can run any Windows application, period. It's a standard Windows PC.

 

[Ravynmagi]

Dumb question, i was reading up on the original Surface tablet and it says only programs from the Microsoft store could run on the tablet. For the Pro version, can you run normal windows/non microsoft store applications?

Definitely Surface Pro is pretty much a real computer. It can run any x86 app regular laptops and desktops run.

 

[Phokus]

alright thanks guys

 

[Ns1]

any specs on surfacepro2? What kinda gaming can I hope to achieve with it?

 

[bonkers325]

any specs on surfacepro2? What kinda gaming can I hope to achieve with it?

you can play Civ 5 on surface pro 1 on medium settings without a problem.

 

[Imaginer]

any specs on surfacepro2? What kinda gaming can I hope to achieve with it?

Going by my current Surface Pro in having it run Final Fantasy XIV at "laptop" settings adequately, Borderlands 2 at under 20FPS with a light skirmish, the Haswell i5 should be a bit better.

Anything but demanding FPS games should be good.

 

[Super56K]

any specs on surfacepro2? What kinda gaming can I hope to achieve with it?

Anandtech lists a 15w i5-4200u with an HD4400.

 

[Ns1]

any reports of "world of tanks" on surface pro?

 

[Mopetar]

The updates look fairly impressive and now that they've got a Haswell chip in the Pro I'm seriously considering picking one up, but I want to play with one for a while first. I'm especially curious about how good the new Touch cover is as the old one didn't feel anywhere near as nice as the Type cover.

Otherwise, given that they were so close to launching the next batch of hardware, I still can't figure out why they wouldn't wait to discount the older hardware until the new stuff came out so it didn't make them seem so desperate.

 

[foghorn67]

I am going to get the 8 GB 256 Surface Pro 2.

I think the price is reasonable, not great.

It is as fast as a Macbook Air with a similar screen. It doesn't have a keyboard, but it has a Wacom pen which is more important to me. (It sucks that 8GB is considered a premium in this day and age, and MS should be ASHAMED they are selling the 64GB model, but whatever.)

All in all it is roughly in line with ultrabook/macbook pricing, which is what it is competing again.

There are no other shipping Haswell tablets with pens. So they just don't have much competition.

I'm getting the 256GB model as well.
I can't wait.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Surface Pro 2, 8GB, 256GB SSD. With power cover. With docking station.

This is my next.

 

[desura]

Looks interesting.

I'm actually more of a fan of the RT.

IMO, the OS is actually better thought out than iOS, in many ways. and the improvements in the touch keyboard + badly needed speed improvements make it attractive.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

RT with full touch Office is incredibly appealing.

 

[Ns1]

RT with full touch Office is incredibly appealing.

no stylus no care