Will big-screen iPads kill off Microsoft's Surface tablets

Do they need killing....Sales aren't that great. If the prices were lower I would get a Surface Pro over Ipad any day

There you go.

I have posted several times that Tim must be thinking of taking advantage of MS missteps.

I suspected something like an affordable macbook.There is a massive opportunity there. From Apple point of view, they should have got in even sooner. The thing referenced in the article may well be what he will be coming up with.

It will likely cannibalise some macbook sales, but will also likely take a lot of business from windows laptops and tablets. If Tim gets it right, the rewards for Apple could be huge.

Yep Surface is in trouble M$ is going smaller and the competition is going bigger. Windows is barely usable on a 10" screen and M$ is going smaller.

This would be the first productivity device from Apple. Are they basically saying they now sell the iPad with Windows compatible OS so that one can use actual productivity tools like Accounting, engineering and other software that only exist for windows?

Glad to hear Apple now focusses less on device that only purpose is to make fart noises (but they have 50 different apps for that!)

only purpose is to make fart noises (but they have 50 different apps for that!)

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I thought it was over 100.

A MacBook Air without the keyboard? If it's light and thin I recon it will sell regardless of how powerful it is. The Apple faithful will buy it.

Had a quick 'shufti' at the Surface yesterday.

They seem to be decent enough machines, the RT could be an iPad-killer if it had the apps, as it's definitely a better machine. The Pro is a nice entry-level PC that can double as a tablet. nothing wrong with either of them that I could see. I dislike touch, but it seemed to work fine, in Metro at least, which, unlike on a desktop, works well on the Surface.

Well, one thing... The RT is A$600 and the Pro is A$1099. At that price I couldn't buy, but a Pro at A$500 would be a great accessory to this i7 laptop. But no way could it replace the i7.

I can easily live without the apps, but the price is simply excessive.


Wenda.

I agree with you there. I also can't see using a Surface Pro as a replacement for my laptop and its too pricy to be buying one just to have one. For what I'd be using it for I could get buy with a much cheaper device with lower specs. Also I'd rather buy a cheap 8 Pro device than a Surface RT.

Will a ipad be useable in a business environment? If it doesn't have MS Office then its not.

BRKING said:

Will a ipad be useable in a business environment? If it doesn't have MS Office then its not.

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Friday, I drove for 4 hours to my brother's place in Indianapolis. Before I left, I copied the folder of an app I've been working on from my desktop over to my hp envy x2. Anyway, while I was watching my brother's kids while he took his wife out to some event, I used the envy x2 to edit my app, added a feature to it, and published it on the windows store with visual studio 2012. Remember that the envy x2 is an atom tablet.

Who says windows 8 was useless? I'd like to see people being able to something like that with their ipads or android tablets.

Hi there
A big screen Ipad is only an overblown oversized Mobile phone or a TV set for watching movies.

Try drawing architectural plans for say a Shopping Mall or a 3-D CAD engineering design on an Ipad -- plus use a spreadsheet to calculate quantities of materials, stresses and loads etc -- and arrange for work schedules so you don't have people hanging around waiting for deliveries during the build etc.

Ipad's -- BAH Idontwanthem.

Cheers
jimbo

If this new iPad is not running a full version of OSX, then it won't matter. It's going to be just another iPad.
I still would not buy one.

Now, as for RT,, eh, Ok, maybe, but the SurfaceRT is still not all that bad. Just needs apps.
But steering away from RT in general, as really, it's just not usable, just like an iPad is not usable for much more than checking email and playing fart sounds.

I still can not understand what people see in a crippled, underpowered, over-sized iPhone that can't make real phone calls
over a good sized tablet with an i5 processor, 4G of ram, 4000HD graphics, And Full Blown Windows 8 Pro OS?
For approximately the same price as an iPad.

With the Surface Pro, you get all the capabilities of a tablet and a laptop.

I just can not see why this concept is so hard for people to grasp.
It's not rocket science, it's called common sense, . o 0 O (oh, right, nevermind. )

The Surface Pro, or other Win8 Pro Tablet/Hybrids really are very functional, and far more functional than any iPad.