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Surface Pro 2 and Surface 2: Now With New Kickstand!

Posted by timothy on from the seeking-balance dept.

UnknowingFool writes "For consumers who had hoped that Microsoft would greatly upgrade their recent entries into the tablet market, leaks and rumors have said that both machines will receive modest hardware changes. Surface Pro 2 will sport new Haswell processors which will increase battery life to 7 hours. RAM is expected to increase from 4GB to 8GB. Surface (formerly RT) will get Tegra 4 processors. The only other confirmed change will be new kickstands that have 2 positions instead of one."

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  1. Bought nokia by EmperorOfCanada · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am going to ignore this story (because it is stupid) and instead comment on Microsoft basically buying Nokia. First a prediction, smartphones are going to be commodity items in 5 years. Yes there will still be some high end units but 5 years from now the fight will not be in features such as screen size, resolution, computing power, etc. It will be in the old features such as durability, battery capacity, cost, and weight. This is where Nokia can excel. Thus if Microsoft can keep from putting MS office on everything it makes then Microsoft has a chance of controlling the OS on a significant proportion of the phones out there.

    I have another prediction. MS will think that two wrongs make a right and start giving Surfaces away with their new XBoxes (Limited time offer)