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Only a few more hours...then it's 21st of October! My order still stands on the status "send off at the 21st". I haven't found out yet if this means "we will give it to the UPS overnight so they will ring your doorbell on the 21st". Or that it means "the UPS will pick up the package at our warehouse on the 21st and will deliver it to you on the 22nd".
Since I live all by myself and I'm at the office during daytime I would normally miss the UPS man. Here they only deliver during office hours (and I'm not allowed to recieve private deliveries at the office). But.... I can also work from home via a VPN connection. So, I will not go to the office tomorrow and work from my house. If the package doesn't arrive on Monday it must arrive on Tuesday. So I've already arranged that I'll be working from home that day to.
In other words ==> no change to miss the UPS man . I'll let you people know when I've got the Surface Pro 2.
Greetz,
Rover
Hi Hopper,
That's to bad man...buying the Surface Pro just two weeks before the announcement of the Surface Pro 2. Great to hear though that you like it. The way you are using the Surface is like I'm planning to use mine. Instead of a laptop and as addition to my desktop computer.
Hehehe, I guess the screen of my desktop can make its feet wet and prepare for some poking here . I'm already used to using a pen, I don't have a mouse but use a Wacom tablet, so that transition should be seamless.
Do you have some specific additional software installed onto your Surface Pro?
Wow...you really must have money enough , Machistmo ==> owning a Surface RT, Pro and Thinkpad Tablet 2.
As far as your comments about the Surface Pro 2 being an overpriced laptop I have to disagree. In my opinion its something between a tablet and a laptop. It is as manageable as a tablet. But then with the computing power and flexibility of a laptop. There lies the power of this unique concept! :thumb:
You see...not everywone wants to have a tablet and a laptop. There are plenty of people around who have a desktopcomputer (or a laptop for that fact) as their main pc and are looking for something more manageable when they are on the road. A laptop is simple not handy due to the clamshell design. An ordinary tablet means giving up the computing power and more important, you can't install whatever you like.
Since I live all by myself and I'm at the office during daytime I would normally miss the UPS man. Here they only deliver during office hours (and I'm not allowed to recieve private deliveries at the office). But.... I can also work from home via a VPN connection. So, I will not go to the office tomorrow and work from my house. If the package doesn't arrive on Monday it must arrive on Tuesday. So I've already arranged that I'll be working from home that day to.
In other words ==> no change to miss the UPS man . I'll let you people know when I've got the Surface Pro 2.
Greetz,
Rover
Have fun, I got the Surface Pro 2 weeks before they announced the Surface Pro 2 .
Still love it I bought it instead of a laptop for going back to school and it is great. Running Office 365 on the Surface and at home with Skydrive makes the transition from Surface to desktop seamless except I keep poking the desktop screen. I also like the pen that comes with the Surface Pro.
Enjoy the Surface Pro 2, Congratulations on the anniversary at work!
Hi Hopper,
That's to bad man...buying the Surface Pro just two weeks before the announcement of the Surface Pro 2. Great to hear though that you like it. The way you are using the Surface is like I'm planning to use mine. Instead of a laptop and as addition to my desktop computer.
Hehehe, I guess the screen of my desktop can make its feet wet and prepare for some poking here . I'm already used to using a pen, I don't have a mouse but use a Wacom tablet, so that transition should be seamless.
Do you have some specific additional software installed onto your Surface Pro?
As the former owner of a Surface RT, Surface Pro and current owner of a ThinkPad Tablet 2 I have to admit to having Zero interest in the Surface Pro 2. Its essentially an overpriced Laptop with a tiny screen and a MEH form factor. The Asus ZenBook Prime would be where I put my money. The surface IS a tablet but you have to pay extra to get things to make it a laptop again. This makes no sense to me. The ZenBook, to me, is a better buy.. Just my 2cents.
Everyone thinks they want a tablet, but they really want both a tablet and a laptop... I just don't see the SP2 doing any better than the SP, but I could be wrong. The dock and the battery keyboard, two things that should have been around from the beginning are not available until 'sometime' in 2014. The dock seems to be a bit of an after thought as it clamps into the unit from the sides rather the unit having a data spine that allows it to be docked ala' ThinkPad Tablet 2 or other devices that were designed to dock.
Wow...you really must have money enough , Machistmo ==> owning a Surface RT, Pro and Thinkpad Tablet 2.
As far as your comments about the Surface Pro 2 being an overpriced laptop I have to disagree. In my opinion its something between a tablet and a laptop. It is as manageable as a tablet. But then with the computing power and flexibility of a laptop. There lies the power of this unique concept! :thumb:
You see...not everywone wants to have a tablet and a laptop. There are plenty of people around who have a desktopcomputer (or a laptop for that fact) as their main pc and are looking for something more manageable when they are on the road. A laptop is simple not handy due to the clamshell design. An ordinary tablet means giving up the computing power and more important, you can't install whatever you like.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro x64 Media Center Edition
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Custom Made
- CPU
- Intel Core i5 750
- Memory
- 6 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- AMD HD 7750
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Iiyama ProLite B2481HS-B1
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1x 120 GB SSD Samsung 830;
1x 1.5 TB HDD Seagate;
1x 2 TB HDD Western Digital;
1x 3 TB HDD Seagate
1x 80 GB SSD Vertex 2
- PSU
- Corsair CX 600
- Case
- Corsair Carbide 300R with Side Window
- Cooling
- Intel RTS2011 LC
- Keyboard
- DasKeyboard (blue switches)
- Mouse
- Wacom Baboo Tablet Pen & Touch
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- 50 Mbit FullDuplex Fiberglass
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- I also own the following Microsoft devices:
* Surface Pro 2 128 GB
* Windows Phone HTC 8X