Microsoft 128 Surface Pad

Its the original Surface Pro, the 1st gen one, theres been a Surface Pro 2, and a 3 coming out this month.
Not much difference between 1 and 2 apart from the newer Haswell chip and integrated graphics.
I would defo hold of until the 3 comes out though before purchasing one at full price or close to it.
This seems a decent price though.

Deleted User wrote: »

For the price it seems too good to be true. It's €799 in pcworld.
Should I get it?

That the Surface Pro 2 in PC World

Seems a very good price alright

lolosaur wrote: »

How much would you pay for the 2?

If im right, there is a crap one called the RT which isnt worth a damn, then there is the surface2 pro which is the 799 one i think

How much would you reckon you should be paying for that?


Any isdea on the release date for the 3?

These all have Intel chips, which in turn means that they do not run RT so no need to even think about that. Surface Pro only runs full fat windows 8, no RT.

My bro has a surface pro 2 and it is a savage piece of kit. I have a Asus 10" Windows 8 tablet with an Atom processor and it's fantastic also. Very quick, incredible battery life and not in anyway slow. Have never had any speed issues at all on it. Anyone moaning about atom processors and perforance frankly doesn't have a clue.

The Pro tablets have advantages, full sized USB port, HD screens, pen input, great design, more powerful hardware and a lot more to be honest. As for an expected price for the Surface Pro 2, it's anyones guess really.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

These all have Intel chips, which in turn means that they do not run RT so no need to even think about that. Surface Pro only runs full fat windows 8, no RT.

My bro has a surface pro 2 and it is a savage piece of kit. I have a Asus 10" Windows 8 tablet with an Atom processor and it's fantastic also. Very quick, incredible battery life and not in anyway slow. Have never had any speed issues at all on it. Anyone moaning about atom processors and perforance frankly doesn't have a clue.

The Pro tablets have advantages, full sized USB port, HD screens, pen input, great design, more powerful hardware and a lot more to be honest. As for an expected price for the Surface Pro 2, it's anyones guess really.

Depends on your usage I guess, My wife got a Lenovo Yoga with RT on it and its perfect for her needs (College), the battery lasts 10 hours and its got the form factor of a really thing laptop and completely flips over into a tablet.

Far better than a Chromebook since it has Microsoft office and most apps these days are web based.

But yeh, if you want to run stuff like Autocad, Photoshop or play games then an x86 based machine is the way to go.

lolosaur wrote: »

can you run azzures./vuze off this as if im thinking correctly, you have tyo get your "apps" from the windows store.

Im just wondering about legally downloading free content from like minded users or would i have to do that and then put movies/music onto the tablet?

Aslo, can i put vlc player on it? or is that a no too?

how restrictive are they in this regard? will i need to download codecs and all sorts of crap to watch stuff? will it allow me to download them even?

I, a wee bit skeptical.

Any program you can run on your laptop will run on this. Simple as that.

You can put VLC, photoshop, firefox, vuze etc etc on it. It is the same as a Windows 8 laptop in that regard. No need to go through the app store to get applications on it, you can simply just browse to whatever website you want and download as normal.

The device is networked through Wifi so you can transfer to it by using that. Or pop files onto a USB stick. Again, it's the same as a laptop in that regard.

Think of it as a laptop, with no physical keyboard and a touchscreen.

I have a surface pro. I got it free so maybe my views are a bit one sided but I really like it. The screen is beautiful, the UI is quite easy to use and intuitive. I've mostly used it for browsing the web and playing minecraft and its perfect for that. I have microsoft office on it too but I haven't used ot for anything yet. I spent a very long time installing updates out of the box which was slightly irritating. I have the keyboard for it as well which I use all the time, not sure if thats included with this one though.