Microsoft Surface Pro will be available January 2013 starting $899
When Microsoft announced the Surface product line I was immediately drawn towards the Surface Pro and not the Surface RT. The latter got released first to my dismay and while it seems to have done reasonably well, it was clear that the majority of IT professionals were waiting for the Surface Pro instead.
The core reason behind that decision is the fact that you can run legacy Windows programs on the Surface Pro but not on the Surface RT. Sure, Microsoft Office and apps that you can download from Windows Store may be all that some users need to work with the device, but I want control over the device and the software that I install on it.
Microsoft has not revealed many information about the Surface Pro up to this point in time. We do not know how much it will cost, how long the battery of the device will last on average, or how capable its cpu and onboard graphics processing unit are. A release date has not been mentioned as well. It is impossible to make a buying decision without knowledge of these information, well, not impossible but it would not really make sense to buy the device without that knowledge.
Tami Reiller, Microsoft CFO and Chief Marketing Officer of the windows and Windows Live Division revealed at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference 2012 that the surface Pro will be released in January 2013.
We also have talked about -- I keep losing my clicker here -- we have also talked about not only Surface RT, which is shipping today, but we also back in June talked about the Surface with Windows 8 Pro, and you're seeing here a picture of Surface with Windows 8 Pro, or Surface Pro as we often refer to it. You'll see the same kickstand, the same covers work with Surface Pro as well, and you'll see the pen with Surface Pro as well.
And we talked about back in June that Surface Pro would be available in early 2013. And, in fact, Surface with the Windows 8 Pro will be available in January. So, there you see a picture of both. So, we're very excited about Surface, and how customers are reacting to Surface RT, and the excitement for Surface Pro for sure.
No word on an exact date or pricing yet. Price will determine the device's success or failure. While I do not know the exact price the Surface Pro will be available for, I can give you the lower price limit that it won't cross. The Surface with Windows RT with 64 Gigabyte of storage and a Black Touch Cover is available for $699, and it is that limit the Surface Pro won't cross.
It is very likely that the Surface Pro will be more expensive than $699 considering that it ships with more expensive hardware than the Surface RT. Judging from past pricing, it is likely that it will start at $899 or even $999 for the 64 Gigabyte model, with the 128 model probably starting at $1099 or even $1199.
Here is a short list of some of the components of the Surface with Windows 8 Pro:
- 10.6" Clear Type Full HD 10-point multi-touch display with a 1920x1080 pixel resolution
- 64 Gigabyte or 128 Gigabyte of storage
- Pen input and pen included with purchase
- 4 Gigabyte of RAM
- Intel Core i5 processor
- Intel HD Graphics 4000
- 42 W-h battery
- Full size USB 3.0 port
I had hopes that Microsoft would release the Surface Pro before the end of the year. What's your take on the Surface Pro so far and the pricing?
Update: Microsoft has just revealed the pricing of Surface Pro in a new blog post over at the official Microsoft Blog.
The 64 Gigabyte version of Surface Pro will start at $899, the 128 Gigabyte version at $999. Note that the price includes the pen but not a keyboard which is sold separately. Assuming that the pricing for Type and Touch covers are the same as for the Surface RT, you can add $129.99 or $119.99 to that order which effectively raises the price above the $1000 mark.
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This is below AI generated crap. It is copy of Microsoft Help website article without any relevant supporting text. Anyway you can find this information on many pages.
Yes, but why post the exact same article under a different title twice on the same day (19 march 2023), by two different writers?
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Probably they will announce that the taskbar will be placed at top, right or left, at your will.
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If it’s Microsoft, don’t buy it.
Better brands at better prices elsewhere.
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WTF? So, If I add one photo to 5 albums, will it count 5x on my storage?
It does not make any sense… on google photos, we can add photo to multiple albums, and it does not generate any additional space usage
I have O365 until end of this year, mostly for onedrive and probably will jump into google one
Photo storage must be kept free because customers chose gadgets just for photos and photos only.
What a nonsense. Does it mean that albums are de facto folders with copies of our pictures?
Sounds exactly like the poor coding Microsoft is known for in non-critical areas i.e. non Windows Core/Office Core.
I imagine a manager gave an employee the task to create the album feature with hardly any time so they just copied the folder feature with some cosmetic changes.
And now that they discovered what poor management results in do they go back and do the album feature properly?
Nope, just charge the customer twice.
Sounds like a go-getter that needs to be promoted for increasing sales and managing underlings “efficiently”, said the next layer of middle management.
When will those comments get fixed? Was every editor here replaced by AI and no one even works on this site?
Instead of a software company, Microsoft is now a fraud company.
For me this is proof that Microsoft has a back-door option into all accounts in their cloud.
quote “…… as the MSA key allowed the hacker group access to virtually any cloud account at Microsoft…..”
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so this MSA key which is available to MS officers can give access to all accounts in MS cloud.This is the backdoor that MS has into the cloud accounts. Lucky I never got any relevant files of mine in their (MS) cloud.
>”Now You: what is your theory?”
That someone handed an employee a briefcase full of cash and the employee allowed them access to all their accounts and systems.
Anything that requires 5-10 different coincidences to happen is highly unlikely. Occam’s razor.
Good reason to never login to your precious machine with a Microsoft a/c a.k.a. as the cloud.
The GAFAM are always very careless about our software automatically sending to them telemetry and crash dumps in our backs. It’s a reminder not to send them anything when it’s possible to opt out, and not to opt in, considering what they may contain. And there is irony in this carelessness biting them back, even if in that case they show that they are much more cautious when it’s their own data that is at stake.