Just mere hours ago, Microsoft has announced a set of new Windows 8 tablets at a specially held event over in Los Angeles. Dubbed as the Microsoft Surface, the new 10.6-inch tablets will be made available in two versions: one for Windows RT with the ARM-based NVIDIA Tegra processor and another one for Windows 8 Pro that will be powered by an Intel third generation Core processor.

The new tablets come with a magnesium-based casing that is created using a process that is called VaporMg (pronounced as Vapor-Mag) which also includes a built-in kickstand. Here are a brief look at their technical specifications:

Surface for Windows RT

Processor: ARM-based NVIDIA Tegra

Weight: 676g
Thickness: 9.3mm
Display: 10.6-inch ClearType HD display
Battery: 31.5Wh
I/O: microSD, USB 2.0, Micro HD Video, 2x2 MIMO antennae
Software: Office '15'Apps
Capacity: 32GB / 64GB

Surface for Windows 8 Pro
Processor: Third generation Intel Core processor (Ivy Bridge)
Weight: 903g
Thickness: 13.5mm
Display: 10.6-inch ClearType Full HD (1080p) display
Battery: 42Wh
I/O: microSDXC, USB 3.0, Mini DisplayPort, 2x2 MIMO antennae
Capacity: 64GB / 128GB

In addition to these new tablets, Microsoft has also unveiled couple of accessories to go with them such as the 3mm-thin Touch Cover which is essentially a tablet cover with integrated pressure-sensitive keyboard and touchpad. There is also another 5mm-thin cover that is called the Type Cover which features a full tactile keyboard and touchpad with clickable buttons. Surface for Windows 8 Pro receives something extra though in the form of digital pen input.



No actual pricing have been announced yet but Microsoft has stated that these new Microsoft Surface will be priced competitively to comparable ARM-based tablets and Intel Ultrabook-class PC. The Microsoft Surface for Windows RT will be available right at the general release of Windows 8 later this year while the Surface for Windows 8 Pro will follow suit three months later.

It is hard not to assume that Microsoft's decision to come out with their own Windows 8 tablet might put a lot of their OEM partners on alert - to say the least - but nevertheless, we are curious on how Microsoft Surface will fare in the market. Let's hope we will be able to see them here in Malaysia very soon.

Source : http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspx

Gotta say.....I fapped to this. Though, I'm not buying it.

Loving the Keyboard cover thingy.

I'm not a tablet person, but if I HAD to buy one, it'd be a Microsoft one.

Not wanting windows8, it's worse than vista, and it is putting an end to which is not a good thing in the business realm.

So thats why they made Windows 8 so it can use apps. Knew they had something up their sleeve.

I'm an ignorant mouth breather.

 

Fixed.

Failed

 

Ignorance. I have been in the computer realm longer than you have been alive. I know a bad OS, when I see one.

The keyboard looks a bit too slim.

 

But besides that, it looks cool.

Double fail.

 

Ignorance, I'm using Windows 8 right now.

 

Also, your nineteen, only two years older than me. Your "My First Laptop" play set doesn't qualify as a computer.

 

Failed yet again.

 

First of all it was with real tools and a real computer, pretty sure it qualifies. And all worked after I "played with them". Windows 8 is a dying plea from microsoft, an attempt that we in the computer realm have seen many times before. Plus the only people who even like windows 8 are the people that don't have to end up fixing it.

First of all it was with real tools and a real computer, pretty sure it qualifies. And all worked after I "played with them". Windows 8 is a dying plea from microsoft, an attempt that we in the computer realm have seen many times before. Plus the only people who even like windows 8 are the people that don't have to end up fixing it.

 

Your experience with computers is irrelevant. You only have a two year lead (if you aren't full of BS) and even then you probably haven't done anything beyond fiddling with a video program given your ignorance.

 

Point is, you are bashing something you haven't even used yet. I'm using it right now and I can safely say it's better than Vista and at it's current rate of development might wind up being better than Windows 7.

 

 

Your experience with computers is irrelevant. You only have a two year lead (if you aren't full of BS) and even then you probably haven't done anything beyond fiddling with a video program given your ignorance.

 

Point is, you are bashing something you haven't even used yet. I'm using it right now and I can safely say it's better than Vista and at it's current rate of development might wind up being better than Windows 7.

 

No, I've used windows 8. I'm a computer science major, meaning I program computers, and since my dad is in IT I have to help him sometimes. I may be 19 but I at least have about 12/ 13 years of serious experience with computers.

 

And from what I've seen with windows 8 it makes it easier on the user which is always good but (and this is what im getting at) since vista, and then 7 on the IT end for fixing problems in windows makes it alot harder to do the same things.

I like the keyboard. Other than that, i'm not very interested.