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Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail
Nerval's Lobster writes "Microsoft's Surface Pro boasts one feature that could rapidly become an Achilles Heel, especially if Microsoft intends for the device to compete against Apple's iPad and a host of lightweight Google Android touch-screens. In a Nov. 29 Tweet to a customer, the official Surface Twitter feed claimed: 'We expect it [Surface Pro] to have approx. half the battery life of Surface with Windows RT.' That means Surface Pro will have roughly four hours of battery life. That's roughly half the battery life (if not less) of Apple's various iPads, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Research In Motion's PlayBook, Hewlett-Packard's now-cancelled TouchPad, and Motorola's all-but-forgotten Xoom. In other words, pretty much every tablet currently on the market. Nor can the Surface Pro compete with other tablets on price. The 64GB version of the device will retail for $899, with the 128GB version coming in a little higher at $999."
should read, why the surface pro will fail.
1000$ is way too high. Hit the 500$ and then it will compete with high end tablets. Until then there is nothing new with it. They made touch tablets back in the early 2000s that ran x86 chips that never got off the ground either. Too expensive, poor battery life and bulky. Too bad intel is not competitive with lightweight arm chips. The longer microsoft and intel won't compete the more and more people will start using them as their main computers.
You're a well known MS hater and Apple fanboi/zealot. You post short uninspiring snippets in unrelated discussions to boost Apple's bottomline at the expense of Linux. You're probably an AAPL shareholder looking at your posts.
With that out of the way, Surface is not targeting the Nexus 7 or even the iPad, or even the big ultrabooks. Perhaps you got confused with Surface RT. Pro is a different machine.
It's trying to define a new category in the market, like the iPad did, and remember how people on here said it was an oversized iPod Touch and not enough power for a tablet? Remember how that ended up?
Also, your sample size of the developers in your company that are probably fellow Appleheads is so laughably pico compared to the billion strong PC market and even the Windows shops out there that it doesn't warrant a response.