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Or, maybe, because they thought having a single device rather than two was an advantage? I would certainly rather have a single tablet that could also act like

by tikhonj 14y ago

Or, maybe, because they thought having a single device rather than two was an advantage? I would certainly rather have a single tablet that could also act like a laptop as opposed to both a tablet and a laptop.

CountSessine 14y ago
But you can't have that. There are too many hardware constraints. Current ARM chips have less than 1/10 the memory bandwidth of current Intel notebook CPUs and in real-world benchmarks are MUCH slower. Ditto tablet vs notebook GPUs. At best, Microsoft is making a tablet with a keyboard, not a notebook/tablet hybrid. I love my iPad. But Surface isn't going to save me from buying a laptop. There are lots of things that I've found that I just couldn't move over to my iPad, and none of those are going to move over to a Surface either. So at the very, very most, Surface saves you from buying one of these: http://www.zagg.com/accessories/logitech-ipad-2-keyboard-case http://www.zagg.com/accessories/logitech-ipad-2-keyboard-cas...
- recoiledsnake 14y ago
  Surface Pro has an Ivy Bridge processor.
  - CountSessine 14y ago
    That's nice. Then it'll come with a notebook's battery life too.