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Microsoft Slashes Prices On Surface
McGruber writes "Thursday, The Verge broke the news that Microsoft was slashing the price of its tablets — the price of the 32-gig Surface RT plummeted by 42%! Staples, TigerDirect and many other retailers are already selling the tablets at the lowered prices. I wonder what Microsoft will do for customers who purchased a tablet right before the price drop?"
Actually, it is a 70% reduction from list price. $150 is 30% of $499, or in other words, a 70% reduction.
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And by then, someone will have worked out how to install Android on it.
Oh awesome! Replace a giant douche with a turd sandwich. Android runs like shit on a Nexus7 which also has a Tegra 3 processor so it's unlikely to run particularly well on a surface. If nothing else (well actually with Windows RT there really is nothing else) at least it runs smooth, when using the OS and the available apps it is a LOT smoother than Android on similar hardware, which - as an Android user - is *very* frustrating. I guess the Nexus 7 is a couple years old now but surely it should be able to handle vanilla Android and be smooth and not so damn jerky all the time.