Microsoft's Surface Pro is this week's lucky slab of silicon to hit the bench.
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The 64GB version of Surface Pro has 23GB of free storage out of the box.
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Surface Pro is comparable to a full-blown Windows laptop that also boasts tablet capabilities.
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The culture Microsoft has fostered for decades assumes that the Surface Pro is for work.
Could this be a factor in why the Surface Pro is already being sold out?
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Are they ready with a press release proclaiming a sell-out weekend for the Surface Pro.
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The launch of the Microsoft Windows 8 Surface Pro has not gone to plan.
FORBES: Microsoft's PR Team Misfires As The Surface Pro Launches
Customers who could evangelise the Surface Pro and create a snowball effect in sales.
FORBES: Microsoft's PR Team Misfires As The Surface Pro Launches
Though we've seen many tablet hybrids (the Surface Pro, etc.), they've mostly had smaller 11-inch screens.
Microsoft will introduce Surface Pro based on Haswell and so will the likes of Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
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All this earns the Surface Pro a repairability rating of just one out ten (ten being the best).
ENGADGET: iFixit tears down Microsoft's Surface Pro, rates it 1 out of 10 for repairability
People previously on the fence about purchasing a Surface Pro reversed course and started hunting down the hardware.
That said, perhaps the forthcoming Surface Pro software update might solve this problem altogether, but an Android tablet?
Readability and eye strain with non-Windows 8 applications: The Surface Pro was designed to run Windows 8 applications natively.
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Where the Surface RT and Surface Pro both struggle is their dependence on, ironically enough, the proper work surface.
The Surface Pro handles Diablo III at 1920 x 1080 resolution with most specs except shadows maxed out.
The biggest fuss has been over the storage available to the users of the 64GB and 128GB Surface Pro.
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Their prior perceptions held that the Surface Pro was strictly a business machine.
Heck, even the Surface Pro reared its head backstage at the show.
Its first computer, the Surface tablet, was released in October and has been followed up with the Surface Pro.
Ultimately, it makes me think the Surface Pro was something of an afterthought.
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The Surface runs on an ARM microprocessor, but the upcoming Surface Pro will run on an Intel chip .
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If you want to find a silver lining, people are talking about the Surface Pro online, building up the awareness.
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The only people dancing for joy about owning a Windows computer seem to be in those Surface Pro TV ads.
For the Surface Pro, there is also a built-in downside to their display technology because of Windows 8, which I note below.
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The Surface Pro has about the same footprint as the iPad with the Logitech keyboard attached, either in landscape or portrait mode.
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Surface RT and Surface Pro headed to new countries starting late March.
ENGADGET: Surface RT coming to six more countries in late March, Pro in the 'coming months'
Someday, the Surface Pro will deserve a spot in a technology museum.
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In making the move from the Surface RT to the Surface Pro, we step up from 1, 366 x 768 resolution to 1080p.
Keyboards: The Surface Pro offers two kinds of wafer-thin keyboards which are magnetically and electrically linked to the base of the tablet.
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