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Surface Pro tablet, new Surface accessories to land on Feb. 9 |
January 22, 2013
If you've been waiting to touch a Surface Pro tablet in the living, breathing, once-molten-magnesium flesh, you can finally mark a hard date on your calendar: The Windows 8 Pro version of Microsoft's tablet will go on sale Feb. 9 at Microsoft stores, microsoftstore.com, Staples and Best Buy in the U.S.
The 64GB version will retail for $900, while the 128GB model will cost a cool $1,000. Both models will come with Microsoft's new Surface pen writing stylus (which I used during a brief hands-on at CES), but neither model comes pre-loaded with any version of Office, which has been a nice bundled addition for Microsoft's struggling Surface RT model.
image: microsoftYep, that's the new Surface Pro, with its Surface pen at the ready. Click the image for an exploded view!
While Surface RT is loaded with Windows RT, the hobbled OS incapable of running desktop apps, the upcoming Surface for big boys and girls runs the full version of Windows 8 Pro, and is a complete, 64-bit PC by definition. This is self-evident during a quick scan of its Ultrabook-caliber hardware specs.
Surface vs Surface
Where Surface RT has an Nvidia Tegra 3 ARM chip and 2GB of RAM, the Surface Pro packs a Core i5 and 4GB of RAM. And where the RT's 10.6-inch display has a 1366-by-768 resolution, the Pro keeps the same screen dimensions but increases the pixel grid to true HD at 1920-by-1080.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025900/surface-pro-tablet-new-surface-accessories-to-land-on-feb-9.html
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