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Old July 30, 2012, 10:41 AM
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Microsoft’s Surface tablets will be launched on October 26, alongside Windows 8, according to a disclosure in Microsoft’s 10-K report.

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Old July 30, 2012, 11:27 AM
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Oh Surface....please, PLEASE be as good as I am hoping you will be.
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Oh Surface....please, PLEASE be as good as I am hoping you will be.
Amen, though. As much as I enjoy my Nexus 7, I could see myself using the surface to accurate take down engineering notes at school.
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Bingo. IMO, the N7 sucks as anything but a media consumption device.
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That date is somewhat later than I was expecting, but i'm still looking forward to checking them out once they drop!
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Bingo. IMO, the N7 sucks as anything but a media consumption device.
I want mostly if not completely Windows for the sake of having Word, Excel, and OneNote at my finger tips. Hell the damn thing would help me in the lab too.
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Problem with running surface pro is going to be battery life. I would love to have a full windows os but that means using a power hungry cpu(compared to ARM). I have used a windows 7 core i5 tablet and would maybe get 3 hours out of it. That to me is a worthless piece of hardware.
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