But, the Surface Pro isn't just a storage device. It would be more like renting a furnished apartment as 1200sqft and getting complaints that all the furnishings take up 700sqft. It might be excessive, but it would be installed anyway if the user were building their own device.
I'm guessing the controversy stems from the marketing decision to call it "storage" rather than "hard disk size". On one hand, more people understand "storage" vs "HDD", but on the other hand "storage" implies available storage space. Guess they should come up with a new term.
At least the Surface specifications page has an asterisk next to "storage" explaining the issue. They even have a full page dedicated to it.
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But, the Surface Pro isn't just a storage device. It would be more like renting a furnished apartment as 1200sqft and getting complaints that all the furnishings take up 700sqft. It might be excessive, but it would be installed anyway if the user were building their own device.
I'm guessing the controversy stems from the marketing decision to call it "storage" rather than "hard disk size". On one hand, more people understand "storage" vs "HDD", but on the other hand "storage" implies available storage space. Guess they should come up with a new term.
At least the Surface specifications page has an asterisk next to "storage" explaining the issue. They even have a full page dedicated to it.