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[Microsoft Surface] ducylowycz:
My new Surface

I finally decided on getting the Microsoft Surface 32GB, my son monopolizes the mini and the better half likes the MacBook Air.

I gotta say that I really am digging the feel of this. I picked it up today at Staples for $299!!!!!

I'll have to review it more when I get home.
[Microsoft Surface] Romcrazguy:
How did you get that price
[Microsoft Surface] ducylowycz:
Staples has them in-store right now for $399...I found a $100 coupon online which they honored. It was a mistake actually, he said if I actually followed the "print" link, it would've said that the Surface was excluded from the offer. Since I ended up just taking a screenshot of the coupon and picking taking that in.
[Microsoft Surface] mace2442:
I got both a PRO and an RT.

The pro is a laptop with it's pros and cons. It got lots of power and speed but it gets a little heavy due to that.

The RT is the true tablet. Cool, light and runs for ever. Only downside is the limited amount of apps.

IT has replaced an older W7 atom tablet (I did run W8 on it).

Primary use for the RT is surfing the web, reading docs (PDF and epub mostly) plus keeping me connected to my social networks
[Microsoft Surface] Spectredroid:
I love my pro. It is a bit heavy, but I don't mind due to it functionality. For me it is just perfect. I have a note 2, and I think that is about the best combo. Nice android phone, win 8 pro tablet. I have tried a few other tabs: ativ 500, and series 7 slate upgraded to win 8. The surface kills them. Best ever IMHO. :thumbup:

From an unlocked Note 2. Hmm...... Can you hear me Verizon, out on Uranus?
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Like my RT, even more so with 8.1 preview on it..

Ordered a Pro on the 24th May but MS are having issues with the online ordering system so I'm told by their reps.

Had to cancel my original order and place another one as the first was stuck, they did give me £100 discount though, however it now appears like my second order placed on the 17th) is also stuck, I've been told I'm going to be compensated again for this problem...

By the time it gets to christmas I might have a free one at this rate...
[Microsoft Surface] sbdags:
I have gone from the RT to the PRO and am very happy with the PRO. The RT felt a bit crippled and it annoyed me that the desktop mode on the RT was basically useless.

The PRO feels much better to use and the higher resolution is much better. I like the pen functionality and love I can run all my old software from Win XP to Win 7 :)

The only downsides - the much worse battery life and price. Both I can live with :) If you're undecided and have the funds - go for the PRO imo.
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
In my experience if your having problems with a company you just drop a threat about trading standards into your argument somewhere and they give in, unless its murco in St Neots who did actually recieve a visit and fine from trading standards in the end.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Pretty poor tbh, nobody as MS can tell me why neither of my orders have gone through and all the Live Chat techs can tell me is that its been escalated and that someone will contact me..
[Microsoft Surface] mace2442:
I got one of each and I do like them booth.

The RT is my E-book reader, surfpad and facebook box.

The pro is going to be upgraded to enterprise (yes I do got the licence and BACKUP :) on that).

I just got to play with direct access from the pro to my home net
[Microsoft Surface] Kraize:
I love my SP. I would've bought the RT in a heartbeat (esp since now my university will offer it for $250 with a touch cover) IF it could run android. Just too much I'd miss by switching over. I wish my SP would run android properly so I could sell my nexus 7 and just use the pro. ):
[Microsoft Surface] araujo_maia:
my surface rt

please tell me, i have bought the surface rt with university promoting. is a good tablet? is a good buy? im new in windows 8 and i am not a windows fan, linux better :P
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Depends what you want to use it for tbh, but, Linux better, so why buy an RT if thats the opinion straight out of the box?
[Microsoft Surface] araujo_maia:
I bought to try, was a very good price, my course is engineering informatics, and have to be updated, and I've been programming for windows phone
[Microsoft Surface] Alias84270:
well, i just bought my surface RT after my nexus 7 and im so happy.

I'm a student in IT engineer school, so i got my own server and it's so pretty to have on my tablet, a real RDP and get all access on my differents server. I will try for the vm ware web client, but for the moment is not install on my v center.

I jailbreak my tablet to get access, to notepad ++, filezilla, 7 zip, and he this surface became a powerful tool.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Indeed, if you know exactly what you want and know that the RT will fill the gap, with the price drops and 8.1 the RT becomes a very good unit, I used mine all the time at home and more at work once 8.1 was on and I had outlook, with 8 its not "as" good but still not a bad device, however if you are a bit unsure as to what you want then there are literally hundreds of Android tablets to use that come in easier to swallow price brackets.
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
I'd argue its better with 8.0 as you can run the jailbreak for unsigned code, but hopefully that will come onto 8.1 eventually.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Yeah, depends what you want to use it for I guess.

If you know what you want and what the devices limitations are then its good...
[Microsoft Surface] jimlivingston:
Hated but now Loved

Full disclosure, I was a Tech with Microsoft before, during, and after the Windows 8 and Surface releases. As such, my Surface RT was free to me. Even so, I hated it. I hated Windows 8. Still do, the latter. But, I found a new love for my RT. Not too long ago I left Microsoft for a better position. This new job requires a fair amount of world travel. Recently I was sent overseas for over a week. I decided to update and bring the RT with me. I ended up using it each and every day; primarily to Skype back home and see my wife and children. I took it with me everywhere. Folding it out and being able to chat by typing while sitting at a bistro table was really nice. Even in the hotel lounge, most business travelers were using iPads, and many of them kept looking over at meas I typed away. A few of them even approached me and had a look of envy on them. Along with Skype I was able to work of project reports and send critical emails. Perhaps my hatred for it stemmed from the fact I had no real use for it. But now I do. Oh yea, one of the better features was on the airplane. Instead of throwing my laptop bag under the seat in front of me (for easy access to my company laptop), which cut out needed leg room, I tossed it in an overhead bin and just kept my RT with me, like a book. I watched 3 feature length films back-to-back-to-back while in the air and still had almost 50% of my battery life left. That gave me plenty of juice to catch up some Walking Dead Comics.

So yea, the RT has found a loving home in the same home it was originally despised. Looking forward to the Surface 2!
[Microsoft Surface] Cuppeerr:
I got my surface a little less than a week ago and I LOVE it. it's taken me a couple days to get used to the touch keyboard and the no full desktop thing but man this is a nice device. Also the battery life is KILLER. and I love the multitasking on it. I wanna see what the surface 2 is like but I primarily got this one because I knew the battery life was amazing. Idk how good the battery life in the surface 2 will be considering it might have a 1080p screen. But plain and simple I love this device.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Not long until the announcements, just in time for my birthday lol..

I want Haswell, 8Gb RAM and 256Gb SSD..

Anything more than that is a bonus...
[Microsoft Surface] dmcgrath009:
Just got the 32gig surface RT for my wife to use for school. I absolutely love the form factor of this tablet and its Microsoft office functionality. Other than that it really is frustrating there is virtually nothing available for it..... this thing is fluid smooth and easy to use but Lack of programs is going to be a big downfall.
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
did haswell, 8gb of ram and upto 512gb ssd satisfy you? Along with a new cover with a battery in it for even longer life and backlit keyboards. Guess with you having a keyboard already though that it the news ones wouldn't matter so much, new ones do supposedly work on the existing surfaces with the exception of the keyboard with a battery not being able to charge the RT.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Oh hell yeah, bigger SSD more RAM, Haswell, have already been given the Ok to pre-order one :D

Keyboard wise I'll need to order one anyway as my existing unit will go as a whole to my tech support guy, then my old RT that he has will be up for grabs to someone else in the business...

Probably looking at 8Gb/256Gb/Keyboard/Dock..

Not sure about the annoucement re the battery though, they say "Battery: 75 percent more than Surface Pro." not up to, so does that include the Touch Power cover, life or what, its rather vague...
[Microsoft Surface] Osprey00:
Just on its own (with no Power Cover), the Surface Pro 2's battery life is 75% longer than the Surface Pro's. Most of that seems to be from Haswell, but I'm also reading of a supposedly bigger battery. With the Power Cover, the battery life on the Pro 2 is 2.5x that of the Pro (on its own, though it seems that you can use the Power Cover with it, too). 2.5x is 150% longer battery life (I'm not sure why MS is mixing their language), so the Power Cover seems to provide about as much extra battery life as the improvements in the Pro 2 do. For example, if you got 4 hours on the Pro, you'd get 7 hours on the Pro 2 and 10 hours on the Pro 2 with the Power Cover.
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
Microsoft confirmed that the surface pro 2 uses the same battery as the original. They gave a full interview on where the changes come from (more efficient choice of regulators, many corners that were cut for cost reasons in the first gen being done properly in 2nd gen, changes to the DDR chips in use etc etc).
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
That's a hell of a lot of cut corners surely...
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
I concur
[Microsoft Surface] Osprey00:
Haswell chips, alone, offer up to 50% longer battery life, so that's most of the difference right there. The other little improvements that Microsoft did, all combined, probably account for "only" a 25-35% improvement. I guess that that's still a lot, but my point is just that that's not where most of the 75% improvement comes from.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
As long as it runs cooler and quieter i'm not that bothered about battery tbh, I sit here in bed now, chargers next to me if I need it, when I use it at work its plugged in, its more the ram and storage that I'm after as the extra ram means I can run my vm's and the storage means being able to store those vm's and ISO's etc.

I'm still not convinced by 75%, maybe with the type power cover then yeah I could believe that, but on its own, with the same battery, it just doesn't add up, they couldn't of cut that many corners...

Checkout the CPU's directly from Intel site, i5-3317u vs i5-4200u...

http://ark.intel.com/compare/75459,65707

Figures dont add up...
[Microsoft Surface] Osprey00:
I hear you. On the Wikipedia page for the Haswell architecture, there's a comparison between it and the Ivy Bridge architecture (which is in the original Surface Pro) and the improvements seem quite modest. It notes that "total performance improvement on average is about 3%" and it even draws more power and runs hotter than Ivy Bridge (which ought to decrease battery life). So, that's a bit confusing, but my guess is that those latter points apply more to the desktop version than to the mobile version.

There must be something else going on, and it might be explained by this line: "The Haswell architecture is specifically designed to optimize the power savings and performance benefits from the move to FinFET transistors on the improved 22 nm process node." Ivy Bridge, it turns out, was their very first architecture to use these new transistors, so perhaps it was very poorly optimized for battery life and this is the rectifying of that. It's not uncommon for 2nd-gen implementations to be radically improved over the 1st-gens, after all. We'll have to see. Still, well before the Microsoft event, the community was speculating that the successor to the Surface Pro would increase battery life at least a couple of hours, thanks to Haswell, so Microsoft's "75% improvement" claim isn't really that out there or that surprising to most.
[Microsoft Surface] SixSixSevenSeven:
Neither am I. I'm pretty sure I saw a different tech blog only state a 40% difference, which is more reasonable. Guess we'll just have to see what its like when people get their hands on it, any improvement is still a good thing at least.
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
40% unit on its own and 75% with the Power Cover would make more sense but even then 40% seems high still to me...

The other question is why have they taken a page out of Apples pricing book, the Pro2 8/256 is £1039, 8/512 is £1439, £400 for an extra 256Gb!! If you look at the price of the 4/128 and 8/256 though seems like a nice price gap there, £799/£1039 for double the RAM/Storage, that I can live with..

Had the CTO here compare it to his MBA, he paid £1500 for 8/512/i7 and he gets a keyboard :lol:

Had a quick look on the ark.intel site again and looked at the mobile i7 parts on the back end of that, not sure what the point of them is tbh, still 2 core with HT so dont see the point at all so i5 looks like it was a decent choice compared to the i7, over the i3 I dont know, SDP is low on the i3's but theres no Turbo..

http://ark.intel.com/compare/76609,76608,75988,75114,76618,75460,75112,76616,75459
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
Well the price for the dock has now been put on the UK site at least, £164.99....

Bit more than I would of expected for a dock, but given the price they want for keyboards not entirely suprising..

No price on the Power Cover though, given the normal Type 2 Cover is £109.99 I cant see you getting much change from £150 if any, although I cant see them charging the same or more than the dock though.

Think the specs on it are a copy and paste from the Type 2 Cover though as it appears to weigh the same despite being 4mm thicker and having a battery in it, which presumably is where the bulk of the battery boost comes from, perhaps ~35% comes from the move to Haswell and other internal changes and then the other ~40% comes from the Power Cover to give the boost some places are printing..

Think I'm going to get the Pro2 8Gb/256Gb, Dock and then a Type 2 Cover, if I dont like it then I'll get rid of it with the Pro I have now and then just use my existing Touch Cover, fair to say at this point that the power cover isnt of any use to me, especially at its estimated cost..
[Microsoft Surface] Trig0r:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Ivvn8dhqU

They say 75% in here as well, then 2.5x more battery life.

So, give the Pro 5 hours, thats 8.75hrs, then the power cover with 2.5x (Pro or Pro2?) more battery life, thats a lot of battery...
[Microsoft Surface] TrueMetalGeek:
When I first saw the commercials for the Surface RT I was curious.

But then I watched some youtube reviews that were picking it apart and my friend dogged it as well, saying they had all sorts of problems, etc.

So then I got me a 10" Lenovo with Android. Used it for a month or so but was still FRUSTRATED by the handicapped Android system that after 4 or so years still does not truly multi task or split screen, etc.

Much of what I do is facebook and watch/listen to some shows on youtube.

It sucked that you couldn't tab back to facebook or whatever and keep youtube alive. (My Samsung S4 has the Samsung work around, but still).

Anyway I took another look at the surface. Watched some more videos and I noticed that when I read the comments for these reviews, including the one on Forbes that bashed the Surface RT, the people were calling out the people giving the reviews for being extremely biased and not even demonstrating what the Surface RT was even capable of.

So I went and bought one and that was when Microsoft dropped the price to $349

I gotta say, I use this thing all the time. Even at home I find myself sitting on the couch with it instead of going to my high end PC more most of my everyday needs.

And on the RT, aside from not being able to run Intel processor based applications the layout is the same and I love that.

Also if you dig into it you can find lots of the desktop settings and whatnot.

I made shortcuts on my desktop screen that goes to the C drive, SDCARD, and other areas I frequent rather than using the shortcuts in the start screen.

Remote desktop is sweet. I can log into my Win7 PC from work and run access files, programs, etc away from home.

And even the RT supports the XBOX controller and plays some decent games too.

There are less APPS but many of the apps NEEDED for an android or iPad are not needed in the Surface RT when it has a full browser.

Android is like Windows 3.1 compared to the RT. It's just that much better. :)

Oh yeah. When I tried to show my Android fan boy friend that I got one, that he was a liar about the device, he wont even look a the device! LOL! He's that disgruntled about me getting one and informing him how refreshing it is after being stuck with a handicapped Android. (I have many Android devices, but they are more limited).
[Microsoft Surface] be_man36:
^^ gawd I hate when people are too closed minded and stubborn to see what this device is really capable of doing...you should also watch youtube vid called "why I love my surface RT" then he will really be jealous lol the guy in the vid really shows what this device is capable of doing!
[Microsoft Surface] Leavard:
GuT feeling(tighte nbitt Kimi vn ppl
[Microsoft Surface] pvtnelson:
Really love my surface RT
[Microsoft Surface] Batfink33:
Just got a Surface RT yesterday. In two minds about it. On the one hand, it looks great , performs great and I love the way the apps and OS looks, much better than Android. In the other hand, lack of support for standard programmes is awful. I use XBMC a lot and would love it on the surface but you just can't. All in all a really great device with a major flaw that it can't run standard progs.
[Microsoft Surface] bdesm:
Agree.. This is a fantastic device. But now that I have my Dell Venue Pro 8 I don't know if I will still use it. I guess I will, but I really like the fact I can install any desktop app I want (so far: Ccleaner, Spotify, VPN client). I like the full-screen browser, which is much better than some android apps crashing all the time haha (I have also a Nexus 7 2013).
[Microsoft Surface] Hmong_Xiong:
Got my SP3 the other day and it's also my first Windows tablet. Especially when it's a "hybrid", i truly think this is the best hybrid. Also, it reminds me of when I had the Asus TF300T years ago.
[Microsoft Surface] caldan:
Mensaje 1
[Microsoft Surface] wcomhelp:
Thank you So much!

Ditto
[Microsoft Surface] ilikenwf:
I bought an SP3 refurb on Amazon along with some accessories and ended up spending about $1000 total, which to be honest makes me a little queasy. Great price for the hardware considering how it's been scaled into a tablet with detachable keyboard, I suppose, since none of the android tabs out there have anything better than ARM chips or Atoms. I lespecially love the retina screen, and the Metro apps and some of the desktop apps look great on it, but Microsoft didn't even adding options to by default disable the scaling on the others, so the fonts are blurry. That said, on my normal machines now I feel like everything is huge and pixelated by comparison.

I use multiple OSes but my previous tablet was an HP touchpad with Android. So far I'm disappointed with Windows 8 because of the lack of functioning apps for touchscreens, making me miss Android. Even then amazon kindle app - it doesn't freaking support magazines.

I've already gotten Linux installed and dual booting, and mostly working (more to do there later), but for "Tablet mode," I'm still looking to find the best way to run android, preferably on bare metal with eventual full hardware support, as Windows 8 seems to just be a polished turd at this point.

I've contemplated just virtualizing android and linux but I know I'll have a better experience if full hardware support is achieved. I plan to help with that as possible, since I'm a linux guy, but at the same time am disappointed more people aren't messing with this device.
[Microsoft Surface] savannahluv:
Surface 3 is nice, sleek and handy..It's something that can do when I'm out of town or something. But speed wise, I'd still prefer the surface pro 3.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v8v-v8v:
Hello everyone,

2 day ago and flash cyanogenmod 10.1 on my xperia z but it was full of bugs so i decide to go back to stock rom so i downloaded the Xperia Z C6603_10.1.A.1.434_Nordic 1270-7280_Generic and i use the flashtool to flash the stock rom but when i enter the flash mode and it start to flashing it give that error No loader found on this device , and don't now why . can anyone help me , i search a lot on google for a solution but with no luck i f anyone know the cause of this problem and how to fix it please reply
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gm007:
You need the latest flashtool beta 6 and try another firmwares.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v8v-v8v:
beta 6

when i try to use the beta 6 it say "Cannot identify your device" and it ask me to input my model is I choose C660x and it make my phone ready to flash once I put it to flashmode. But no, once I put it to flashmode flashtool itself couldn't recognize my phone is in the state ready to flashing so it keep saying my phone need to put in to flashmode by press Vol.down while plug the USB.

so i downloaded an older version of flashtool , but do you think that trying an other firmware will fix this problem
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joejoe23:
Isn't it easier to just flash any stock based roms?

Sent from my Xperia Z
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v8v-v8v:
thanks

thanks you very much , i successfully flashed my xperia z to it's stock rom .