An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
- March 22, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- Mashable
- Team Treehouse
- Smashing Magazine
- Crazy Leaf Design
- My Ink Blog
- 24 Ways
- Wal You
- Daily Now
- The Verge
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
February 6, 2013 07:00 am GMT
I come bearing glad tidings. After decades of OEM malaise, a constant parroting of the speeds and feeds mantra, and an aesthetic that was formulated in the back room of a dingy Staples office supply store, the PC is really back. In short, the Surface Pro is so good that it could drive Windows 8 adoption with enough force to make people reconsider Microsofts odd new OS. Microsoft bet the farm on a new paradigm and it needs a champion. Surface Pro is the right hardware for the job. I havent been a Surface apologist and, although Ive seen Windows 8 as more of a success than a failure, no hardware has truly made me see the value of the platform until this model Surface. But enough effusive praise, lets look at the hardware. Back in November I noted that Microsoft launched the Surface RT long before the platform was stable or even interesting. The RT, as youll remember, runs a quad-core Cortex-A9 ARM chip clocked at 1.3 GHz. Its not awful, but its not great, either. This model attempts to right those wrongs by turning the Surface from a tablet device into a what essentially amounts to a Windows laptop. This is an important distinction. The Surface isnt supposed to be a tablet you drop on the coffee table and use when you want to look up something on IMDB. Its a powerful computer with enough speed and graphics chops to give any other manufacturers laptop a run for its money. Previous Windows tablets have been hampered by a strange and messy amalgam of interfaces, pen input, and a focus on the slate form factor. This device, on the other hand, is a real hybrid – a laptop that is also a tablet that is also a media consumption device. You will use it just like you use a laptop whereas, by definition, the hobbled RT version of the Surface is meant to be used as a tablet. In examining the Surface Pro we must remember that, physically, the Pro is essentially the same device as the Surface RT. It is very slightly thicker at exactly a half inch versus .37 inches for the RT. It is also a half a pound heavier than the 1.5 pound RT. Click to enlarge. The system runs an Intel dual-core 1.7GHz Core i5 chip and comes with 64 or 128 GB of
Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/u8dWwA7DpsQ/
The Microsoft Surface Pro Proves That The PC Is Back
I come bearing glad tidings. After decades of OEM malaise, a constant parroting of the speeds and feeds mantra, and an aesthetic that was formulated in the back room of a dingy Staples office supply store, the PC is really back. In short, the Surface Pro is so good that it could drive Windows 8 adoption with enough force to make people reconsider Microsofts odd new OS. Microsoft bet the farm on a new paradigm and it needs a champion. Surface Pro is the right hardware for the job. I havent been a Surface apologist and, although Ive seen Windows 8 as more of a success than a failure, no hardware has truly made me see the value of the platform until this model Surface. But enough effusive praise, lets look at the hardware. Back in November I noted that Microsoft launched the Surface RT long before the platform was stable or even interesting. The RT, as youll remember, runs a quad-core Cortex-A9 ARM chip clocked at 1.3 GHz. Its not awful, but its not great, either. This model attempts to right those wrongs by turning the Surface from a tablet device into a what essentially amounts to a Windows laptop. This is an important distinction. The Surface isnt supposed to be a tablet you drop on the coffee table and use when you want to look up something on IMDB. Its a powerful computer with enough speed and graphics chops to give any other manufacturers laptop a run for its money. Previous Windows tablets have been hampered by a strange and messy amalgam of interfaces, pen input, and a focus on the slate form factor. This device, on the other hand, is a real hybrid – a laptop that is also a tablet that is also a media consumption device. You will use it just like you use a laptop whereas, by definition, the hobbled RT version of the Surface is meant to be used as a tablet. In examining the Surface Pro we must remember that, physically, the Pro is essentially the same device as the Surface RT. It is very slightly thicker at exactly a half inch versus .37 inches for the RT. It is also a half a pound heavier than the 1.5 pound RT. Click to enlarge. The system runs an Intel dual-core 1.7GHz Core i5 chip and comes with 64 or 128 GB ofOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/u8dWwA7DpsQ/
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Techcrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology blog, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.More About this Source Visit Techcrunch