Is the Surface too expensive?

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#1: maybe in the US. Here, the entry-level surface (without touch cover) costs 579 Fr. while the 16gb iPad (4th gen) is 550.

#2: With the difference that you sit 10 feet away from your plasma and keep your Surface at maybe 15 inches. There's no other way of putting it: the 1366x768 res is a shame. It doesn't need to have a 230ppi pixel density - anything above 170 or so looks pretty good. But 145 is not enough.

yeah that's true I am comparing it to US/Canada ($20 more, what a joke haha) prices. money is money and anything over the ipad price in other countries I understand why people would not want to pay more than an ipad!... to me still good value for product, to others maybe not