If the marketing works, then it could outsell the smaller Air. Anyone know how many that's sold?

Millions but personally I would want an MBAir over a Surface Pro.

Most business environments require a pro version of Windows for the corporate software to work. You're not one of the people at that meeting in the advert

A few places I've visited have been in the process of transitioning to web apps or similar or have pretty much done so. Which should in theory be pretty platform agnostic.

Most business environments require a pro version of Windows for the corporate software to work. You're not one of the people at that meeting in the advert

But you have the same or more powerful hardware as the MacBook Air, but people don't complain that that is more expensive than an iPad... The Surface Pro is literally that, a tablet for professionals. The only way to sink the price further would be to use an Atom processor.

For the Surface 2 (RT), it is priced reasonably, it is a bit cheaper than the iPad, but includes full Office 2013 support, something which Apple has reacted to by including iWorks on new iPads.

I still wouldn't buy a Surface 2, the Surface 2 Pro is on my list though. I still don't see what an ARM processor brings to the mix, it is slower than the Atom tablets, doesn't offer any advantage in battery life (compared to Atom based tablets) and it doesn't allow you to run legacy software. It only offers about a 50 Euro price saving over the equivalent Atom versions, although the Atom versions usually have double the storage and WACOM or similar digitizer technology.

The first is the Surface 2, which is an update of the Surface RT. It features Windows RT 8.1, a 1080p display, a 25 per cent increased battery life and a Tegra 4 processor with 72 graphics cores.

The premium alternative is the Surface Pro 2, which replaces the Surface Pro and includes a fully-featured version of Windows 8.1 Pro. it also offers a 20 per cent performance improvement over the original Pro, with a 4th-gen Intel Core i5 processor providing twice the graphical power. The battery also lasts 75 per cent longer.

The prices of each configuration are as follows (further US prices to be confirmed):

Surface 2
32GB - £359 / $449
64GB - £439

Surface Pro 2
4GB RAM, 64GB - £719 / $899
4GB RAM, 128GB - £799
8GB RAM, 256GB - £1039
8GB RAM, 512GB - £1439 / $1799

Microsoft has confirmed that both the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 will release in both the US and UK on October 22. It has yet to be confirmed if this date applies for the rest of Europe.

New iMacs outed - packing Haswell chips and faster Fusion Drive

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing ... ve-1183579

I remember arguing a very long time ago that a web interface was a preferred solution for many business problems. I was hit with a lot of resistance, because devs just didn't trust browsers to deliver a reliable and responsive and consistent environment. It was true at the time.

Thankfully, HTML 5 and more compliant modern browsers have mostly addressed the issues. Most business apps do not need native performance, now your average browser is dozens of times faster than it was in the days of IE4. Thankfully I am not using ActiveX solutions any more!

However, we're stuck with a package where the so called latest version would look at home on 3.11 and there's no better solution. It erks me somewhat, but no one here is getting a Mac and many established businesses are in the same boat.

We have a Siemens telephone system and building access system. The latter had to be coerced to work in Windows 7 32 bit - we couldn't install it on our normal PCs or the terminal server, because it only runs on 32 bit Windows and only with XP settings under Windows 7. This is for a product that was purchased 3 years after MS stopped selling XP!
The telephone system using the Access database engine for part of its CTI solution and that managed to trash out terminal server - we had 32 bit Office 2010 installed, it overwrite some of the installation with 64 bit DLLs, rendering the Office installation useless. We couldn't install the 32 bit version of the dB engine, because the OS was 64 bit, even though MS recommend users install the 32 bit version of office on 64 bit platforms.

The problem is, with these sorts of system, you don't have much choice, although we are looking at a pure cloud based telephone system.

Even after the latest NSA revelations? I can see the potential benefits but will it be secure?


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