Product Description
Includes surface keyboard valued at $139.99
| Price: | $988.00 |
| as of Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:35:42 GMT ***Remember, deals price on this item for sale just for limited time*** | |
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #252 in Personal Computers
- Color: Black
- Brand: Microsoft
- Model: 9SR-00001
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
32 of 38 people found the following review helpful.
By Aeon
I purchased mine in my local Microsoft store and here are some initial impressions:
Pros:
+Build quality is magnificent
+The LCD (PLS apparently) is bonded together with the Wacom digitizer, this provides an extremely crisp image verses traditional digitizers that are on top of the LCD panel, reducing light and adding glare.
+Nearly inaudible
Cons:
-The battery life isn't great
-Mine had some minor light bleed at the sides of the LCD panel. This is normal and happens in 99% of the IPS/PLS panels I've seen.
-The digitizer is GLUED SHUT into the frame. The built in MSATA 64GB SSD is still replaceable however.
-No wintab drivers as of yet (No pressure sensitivity on programs such as Photoshop)
I should also note that the MSRP of the 64GB is only $899, and the 128GB being $999.
To my "surprise" marketplace sellers on Amazon are price gouging by $100 to $300 over the MSRP. Supply and demand at work I guess. But you can lend a hand and lower the demand by purchasing it elsewhere. If saving $100+ is not a great incentive then I should note that you also get full warranty from retail outlets versus ZERO warranty from these individual sellers/drop shippers.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By Kevin
I'm a student and I bought this mainly to carry it to the university, take lecture notes and study at home. Overall, I'm pretty satisfied with it. It's lightweight (2 lbs./900 g, but keep in mind this is basically a full laptop in a small case), powerful, runs every app that my laptop does and the pen is amazingly good, even better than my Wacom Bamboo, mainly because it's lighter and thus less tiring to use.
I installed Office (the new one is already installed, but it's only a trial license) and Visual Studio. They both work well, it doesn't feel slower than a laptop at all.
The only thing I'm not terribly satisfied with is the battery life. Sure, I managed to get 5 1/2 h out of it (Wi-Fi off), but I would have liked at least a couple more for a device so portable.
I have the type cover and I find it good, but I tried the touch cover at a store and it doesn't feel so bad, you probably can adjust to it with a little time.
Overall, I recommend it to anyone who wants a very portable device that can also run all of their applications (including full videogames, even if you might have to tune the settings down a bit). It can be used as a tablet, but if you don't need to do any work on it, it would probably be best to get the Surface RT, much cheaper and with twice the battery life.
Ending note about storage: I own the 64GB version, which has about 29GB of free space. Unless you really have the need to install tons of heavy applications, you can get this version and just buy a microSD card (32 or 64 GB) to extend your storage. I've done so and I'm happy with it. The 64GB version is also easier to find.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By satcom4fun
I bought the Microsoft Surface Pro 64 GB tablet (from Microsoft) and couldn't be happier. This is a tablet for professionals that need to do work on the move. I bought the 64 GB version because the 128 GB version sold out. I have installed office 2010, 2 compilers, adobe, kindle for PC, and some personal software. I still have 10 GB left. Note that 64 GB is the max for an Ipad! It runs flawlessly and I get 4-5 hrs battery life. It has a USB port to use an external 1 TB hard drive or flash drives if desired to increase storage capability or use a cloud service. It also has a MicroSD card to add another 64 GB if desired, why pay another $100 for a built-in addition of 64 GB. The tablet connects to a desktop PC on a shared network for additional storage. I bought the Touch Type Keyboard which works very well for taking notes. The pen works well with OneNote for writing notes. Look out Apple and Android, Microsoft has a winner here.
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