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Can't one order from the M$ website?\\ /\ Alice.( ). Sent from my iPad miniYes, for all that advertising and product placement that is going on for the Surface RT, you'd think they would want them to sell. But instead, MS opted to offer them direct only from them and in the very few MS stores around.
Got to be one of the dumbest decisions I've seen in quite some time.LloydOn Nov 28, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Charles Carroll <911@learnasp.com> wrote:Yes of course. One of the many confusing points.
Just as calling it Win8 may confuse many people into thinking it can run Win7/WinXP/Win8 apps which it can't because it is an ARM chip not Intel.
Smarter to call it WinTab or some other non-Win8 name.
And frankly the price point is the biggest nail in its coffin since it starts at $620+ for lowest end model when its competitors start at $200-$400, and they are so late on the scene they need to get market share fast to avoid the kind of things that killed them when they tried to launch phones late as well. And of course Best Buy, Walmart, Target, MicroCenter, Fryes, etc. should be carrying them since not every customer is anywhere near a MS store/apple store.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jim Saklad <jimdoc@icloud.com> wrote:> If a Tablet can be used with no keyboard (Surface does not need a keyboard it is optional) then it is a Tablet.
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> If a Win8 Tablet has a keyboard that can be "folded away" or disconnected to use without it, we call it a 'convertible'.
Do you suppose Microsoft realizes that always advertising the Suface in connection with its keyboard, spending millions of dollars doing so all over print and broadcast media, MIGHT cause people to get an impression that the Surface tablet(s) are best used with an attached keyboard, and NOT as a stand-alone tablet?
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