Sunday, January 27, 2013

Microsoft Surface Pro hands-on impressions from CES

LAS VEGAS— Perhaps you remember Surface RT. It was Microsoft’s bid to become a legitimate computer hardware manufacturer—a Windows-based tablet with a clever, snappy, magnetically attached keyboard cover. It looked great. It felt great. It had all the pluck and presence of Grade A industrial design.

Surface RT gave us the touch control of Microsoft’s modern U.I., but was also intended to serve as a solid, no-excuses PC productivity station. The tablet even came with a starter version of Microsoft Office to help fulfill that promise.

But Surface RT was also laden with a crappy OS—hobbled by Windows RT and its “desktop as barren wasteland” conceit. And this is why I now discuss Surface RT in the past-tense. It’s not a device that anyone can seriously consider. Not when there are so many worthy Windows 8 Ultrabooks and hybrid designs to choose from.

The good money has always been on Surface Pro. It was announced right alongside Surface RT, with a promised release date of sometime in the neighborhood of January 26. Surface Pro is a slightly thicker, much more powerful version of Microsoft’s original Surface tablet. In fact, it looks identical to Surface RT, save for being 0.53-inch thick instead of 0.37-inch thick. And even though it weighs 2 pounds to Surface RT’s 1.5 pounds, it really doesn’t feel all that much heavier.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2024690/microsoft-surface-pro-hands-on-impressions-from-ces.html

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