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  • D DaveAuld

    At the live event taking place now, Microsoft have announced a new tablet called Surface. Their website has been updated: http://www.microsoft.com/surface[^] Edit: Youtube video now up; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo[^] 9.3mm thick Detachable cover includes keyboard and touchpad (3mm think) Built in stand HDMI USB2.0 Front and Rear cameras. WinRT, Arm processor by NVidia.......

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    Rob Graham
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    Looks like a tablet designed by someone who sees a PC in everything, the result is likely to be the worst of both. Ballmer is really killing this company. And to recycle the name for that coffee-table sized touch screen thing no one wanted from several years ago - I would have thought that name a jinx, and in any case expected something more creative than that. Bet the stock drops a buck tomorrow. [edit] just looked at the specs WTF is VaporMg? Who thinks that is a GOOD Trademark name? Sounds like a cross between VaporWare and an extinct British sports car! [/edit]

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    • S Steve Mayfield

      Spec sheet now available [^]

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      Maximilien
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      2 OS for the same tablet ? OVER-ENGINEERED!!!

      Watched code never compiles.

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      • D DaveAuld

        Maximilien wrote:

        except for the foldable "stand" that will break just by looking at it (over-engineered).

        Magnesium alloy is pretty tuff you know, would be more likely to break if it was plastic or aluminium.

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        Magnesium is not particularly tough at all. You are confusing it with Titanium, which is tough. Magnesium is also quite flammable (and once started, hard to put out - water accelerates the burning). Battery fires should be a whole new experience. The only advantage magnesium has is that it is lightweight...

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        • D DaveAuld

          At the live event taking place now, Microsoft have announced a new tablet called Surface. Their website has been updated: http://www.microsoft.com/surface[^] Edit: Youtube video now up; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo[^] 9.3mm thick Detachable cover includes keyboard and touchpad (3mm think) Built in stand HDMI USB2.0 Front and Rear cameras. WinRT, Arm processor by NVidia.......

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          Chris Maunder
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          Windows 8 on a tablet. I'm struggling to see what the big announcement was. The whole point of Windows 8 was to create an OS that worked well on tablets and phones. Just a pity they forgot about PCs and laptops...

          cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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          • D DaveAuld

            At the live event taking place now, Microsoft have announced a new tablet called Surface. Their website has been updated: http://www.microsoft.com/surface[^] Edit: Youtube video now up; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzu3HM2CIo[^] 9.3mm thick Detachable cover includes keyboard and touchpad (3mm think) Built in stand HDMI USB2.0 Front and Rear cameras. WinRT, Arm processor by NVidia.......

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            Farhan Ghumra
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            Microsoft breaks tradition with Microsoft Surface tablets

            Microsoft isn't actually manufacturing these new tablets itself.

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            • M Mike Hankey

              I wonder if the TSOD (Touch Screen Of Death) will also be the newest product output from Microsoft? Just a thought.

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              enhzflep
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              BSOD, TSOD - we all SOD togeth... Oh wait - nevermind. :doh:

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              • R Rob Graham

                Magnesium is not particularly tough at all. You are confusing it with Titanium, which is tough. Magnesium is also quite flammable (and once started, hard to put out - water accelerates the burning). Battery fires should be a whole new experience. The only advantage magnesium has is that it is lightweight...

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                No I am not confusing it with titanium, I know what titanium is. Pure magnesium is pretty nasty flammable stuff. However Magnesium Alloys can be relatively strong (otherwise we wouldn't make car wheels out of them!) From wiki: The strength –to-weight ratio of the precipitation-hardened magnesium alloys is comparable with that of the strong alloys of aluminum or with the alloy steels

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                • F Farhan Ghumra

                  Microsoft breaks tradition with Microsoft Surface tablets

                  Microsoft isn't actually manufacturing these new tablets itself.

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                  DaveAuld
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                  Who does manufacture their own things now a days?

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                  • C Chris Maunder

                    Windows 8 on a tablet. I'm struggling to see what the big announcement was. The whole point of Windows 8 was to create an OS that worked well on tablets and phones. Just a pity they forgot about PCs and laptops...

                    cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                    I watched the "Analyzing Malware with SysInternals tools" video you have on one of your news letters the other day, the presenter didn't have a lot of fun with Win8. He was all over the place trying to find his open presentations and demos.

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                    • L Lost User

                      Typical Microsoft… Claim it's new and different… it's not. Demo crashed. Over designed. Fairly ugly. Not available for months. No definite pricing.

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                      Mike Hankey
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                      Typical smoke and mirrors only difference after you buy it you need to smoke one.

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