Microsoft Announces Full Surface Pro Specs; Starts at $899, Launches in January

[SKYMTL]

Thicker, heavier and with only half the battery life of Microsoft’s Surface RT, the Pro version’s $899 starting price could be a bitter pill to swallow come January.

Read more here: Microsoft Announces Full Surface Pro Specs; Starts at $899, Launches in January | Hardware Canucks

[botat29]

LOL they can't even launch it for Xmas, what a fail and office is not include ?

[Mars]

There are really no surprises here, they'd long ago announced specs (i5 cpu, so obviously worse battery life than ARM), size (thicker than the RT, since it needs a fan), software (Windows 8 Pro, so no Office) and price (comparable to ultrabooks).

[SKYMTL]

Actually, supposedly it is fanless. Notice the lack of ventilation areas on the chassis.

[Mars]

It has ventilation ports, they're hidden on the back top edge all around the chassis where the kickstand isn't.

Mobile i5 is minimum 17W TDP, I don't think there exist any portable products with that kind of TDP that aren't actively cooled.

Clovertrail can do fanless, but it's got a 2W TDP, Haswell pushes down to 10W, which might be able to do fanless.

[Generic User #2]

hm, ventilation slots are totally fine with me. a fan is not; that thing is going to get the crap beat out of it and I don't want to deal with noise either.

EDIT:

think they underclocked? or got the best binned chips from intel?

[stoanee]

I think I am interested in this, will see how the roll-out goes.

[dustin1706]

Hmmm... I was planning to get rid of my infinity and get the surface pro. I really hope that it has more than 4 hours of battery life.

Will wait and see what it's like,but I may end up going with a small ultrabook instead.

[chrisk]

Won't be available in Canada in January according to this:
Microsoft's Surface Pro launching in January, priced high | MobileSyrup.com

Any ETAs for Canada?

[muse108dc]

Am I the only one thats not at all surprised by this price and is satisfied with it? I was hoping for 800 but was expecting 1k for the entry level pro. Its not high in my mind, your getting a lot more than the non pro model or ipad.

Anyways, I wont be preordering I dont think BUT I do think I will be picking one of these up. Battery life does seem low at 4 hours, I hope that improves, and weight I can live with. Full windows + a stylus should work wonders, RT is too gimped to be useful to me.