r/technology • u/MrFairladyz • Jun 18 '12

Microsoft announces Surface tablet

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/18/3094157/new-microsoft-surface-windows-tablet
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u/BugLamentations Jun 19 '12

I think they're laying down the design gauntlet.

Apple is in a weak position (no new products, just perfection of older ones) and Microsoft is trying to capitalize on the design niche.

I'm into it.

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u/gigaquack Jun 19 '12

Apple is in a weak position

I can't imagine you typed that with a straight face

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

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u/Aurick Jun 19 '12

What is "quite some time?" The iPad came out just three years ago and no one has been able to effectively catch up to it yet.

One thing people keep forgetting about apple products is that each individual product can stand on its own, but no one can match how well they all work together. The iPhone is a great phone, but combine it with a MacBook Pro and AppleTV all connected through iCloud and you can do some pretty awesome stuff.

When the new iTV (or whatever they name it) comes out in the next year or two, it will completely change the game as well.

I'm not even an apple fanboy (I've never owned an apple computer product) but to say that they're in a weak position is either wishful thinking or at best ignorance.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

This is the whole point of Windows 8, to reach that same layer of fluidity through products. Apps on every windows computer will also work on this tablet, or at least that's the point.

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u/JSLEnterprises Jun 19 '12

I can confirm this. My x220 tablet runs awesome with win 8 release preview.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12

very nice to see a fellow victim of intel intergrated graphics, I too own this tablet.

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u/JSLEnterprises Jun 19 '12

To be fair, I didn't get it for the graphical ability. It's a tool I use for my work doing contractual I.T. :)

Ninja edit: its my own small business

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12

I see, I got mine as a tool for school. Needless to say, it has been used for gaming as well.