Microsofts Ipad Killer

[camip]

If that tablet allows me to do school work on it(googledocs) then I'm sold. An Ipad ain't that cool in my book because I want to use to look at stuff laying in bed but it is way easier to use my phone; which has everything the Ipad has. But if i could lay in bed and type essays without having my laptop around that is something I'd buy.

[george graves]

[Raxe]

I build my PC's, mod my laptops and have a certificate in network administration, yet I use my iPad for 80% of my web browsing. Don't knock it till you've lived with it - you'll soon realize how great of a trade off the amazing mobility is vs. having 24 tabs open and three chat services running at all times. Obviously you can't design websites or photoshop dongs into friends pictures with it, but nobody said you need to scrap your PC altogether.

[samurai pizza cats]

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[MC Hammered]

Make the touch surface 40" big with a retina display and wireless keyboard and I'll give it a shot.

[LBJefferies]

I was waiting for the actual Microsoft Surface which was the real enormous iPad that doesn't go anywhere.

This tablet form factor is completely useless for work anyways. Types goddamn slow and spreadsheets are crap. It's always going to be that secondary device.

You saw the external keyboard right?

It's hard to say how this will go over. I think it will clearly be the superior device in terms of functionality. Which isn't saying much because the Ipad can't do half the shit I wish it did. On the other hand, Apple has a large and devoted fan base which will buy dog shit if it had an Apple logo on it. This may keep Apple in the lead, especially if they start adding more functionality to the Ipad.

Microsoft has been playing catch up with their consumer devices for a while now. But they are local to me and Bill Gates is doing amazing things with his money so I support them and really hope they can pull ahead of Apple sometime soon.

[wholethingoff]

I was waiting for the actual Microsoft Surface which was the real enormous iPad that doesn't go anywhere.

This tablet form factor is completely useless for work anyways. Types goddamn slow and spreadsheets are crap. It's always going to be that secondary device.

[RobertK]

iPad fanboys starting to get butt hurt.

Apple is missing the big picture like it did years ago. Its current enterprise integration and security capabilities are a joke. This is why 99% of the smartphones I issue at my job are still BlackBerrys.

If MS can pull off a consumer friendly tablet that can also integrate into a secure enterprise domain then I see many corporations switching over the the MS tablet since Android and iPad tablets just don't have OSs built for full scale enterprise deployment.

Long term.. users want simple transition from professional to personal use. This is why Windows was so successful. Apple has tailored most of its products to consumers and half baked its enterprise functions.

[pandaboo911]

If its got no mobile OS it's probably going to be way too annoying to use, and have loads of bloatware that you'll never use. If you think the iPad is crap because it's simple then you're missing the point.

[tg318is]

I lime.

[Restoman]

This just isn't going to go over as well as the ipad. Sorry. Get one, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

[Swanny]

I loved I concept of the tablet/ notebook like the asus transformer prime. This looks like a step in an even better direction.

[RUFFLZ]

Its just a large iPod in my eyes.

you must own a 6" tv.
because anything else would just be a large TV.





















smh

[CrusherCurtis]

actually looks useful.

[FunfGan]

The problem with most tablets is that they try to do too much and fail at all of it. The point of the iPad is to do 90% of what you'd want to do really well, and really pleasantly. The other 10% requires a real computer.

To say that the iPad is a piece of crap because it doesn't have every single feature that you personally want is to completely miss the point.

That was worded poorly I suppose. My point is, its so very underpowered, at least the earlier versions I used. To me, It couldn't have taken much more to at least run a slimmed down version of the current to that time Mac OS. I was simply let down by the confined use. Its just a large iPod in my eyes.