Seeing SP3 Around?

[Byrese]

Recently, we saw great news that SP3 is well on it's way to being a billion dollar device for Microsoft. I think this is awesome news. I'm curious how many people have seen them around (Starbucks, school, work, etch)? Out of all my colleagues in my doctoral program I'm the only one with a SP3. In class, it's actually very very functional. I can take fit off the keyboard and use it as tablet to write on. I can use it as laptop, etc. The only thing is my mic is messing up, not allowing me to record class.

Anyway, are ya'll seeing a lot of them around?

 

[xandros9]

I've seen one with a red type cover used by one of the more technically inclined students. I don't think I've actually seen any other Pro's. Maybe my memory is just acting up. No shortage of MacBook Airs though

I've seen four RTs out there.

 

[Oliverspin]

Haven't seen one at the my 40,000 person University. One sp2, but no sp3s.

 

[Laura Knotek]

I haven't seen any outside of a Microsoft store.
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[rdubmu]

I see them all over the Seattle area


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[anon(7901790)]

You see them all the time on the sidelines during a NFL game. The Microsoft signed a deal with the NFL for coaches and players to use the SP3. Evidently, the coaches and players like them.

It is Microsoft Surface on NFL sidelines. Coaches, players, broadcasters must forget iPad : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

 

[Byrese]

You see them all the time on the sidelines during a NFL game. The Microsoft signed a deal with the NFL for coaches and players to use the SP3. Evidently, the coaches and players like them.

It is Microsoft Surface on NFL sidelines. Coaches, players, broadcasters must forget iPad : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

They should like it. I bet the pen really helps them draw up plays etc.

 

[Techno-guy]

No longer a student but I see very few in the wild. I've only seen two in the past few months at Starbucks....tons of Macbook Airs and Pros.

 

[Nicholas Maguire]

Pft. Nobody I know can afford a surface pro 3. The thing is the price of my gamer computer and even higher for the i7 model with the type cover. I wish I could have or see one though. Beautiful device.

 

[anon(7901790)]

Pft. Nobody I know can afford a surface pro 3. The thing is the price of my gamer computer and even higher for the i7 model with the type cover. I wish I could have or see one though. Beautiful device.

If they can afford a MacBook Air, then they can afford a SP3. They are priced about the same with the SP3 being cheaper. The MacBook Air starts at $900; a SP3 starts at $800.

But, I agree with your premise that the SP3 is over priced. If Microsoft wants to sell more, they should cut the price to undercut both MacBook Air and iPad pricing.

 

[Analyss14]

That's not really true thou. Not if you are pricing comparable models. People always act like MBAs are so expensive but they were the cheapest laptops I looked at with the spec they offered in the Ultrabook category. An i5 with 128 ssd is $850 and with a student discount you can get them for about $799 after tax. That is literally the same price as the cheapest and lowest SP3 without the type cover, without which, again, this would be an unfair comparison. I wanted to get an SP3 so badly (mostly, to be honest, for the note-taking capabilities) but they were priced out of my wallet for my needs.

People should be more honest in their comparisons. Just because an OEM makes a 8gb version of phone doesn't make them the cheaper option than the competition when their comparable 16gb version (which most people will go for) is $100 more than the competition. I'm waiting with baited breath for the SP4 details because I have a LiveScribe I barely use anymore and I would love to be completely paperless. I even returned my Apple Care because I don't plan on keeping the MBA for more than a year as long as the SP4 doesn't disappoint.

Now, if you want to argue that you get more bang for the extra money, that's a different comparison but either way the SP3 is not cheaper.

 

[Analyss14]

Egg on my face.

I forgot Microsoft offers a similar student discount. However that would just bring them to equal footing. MBA i5 = SP3 i3.

 

[anon(7901790)]

Egg on my face.

I forgot Microsoft offers a similar student discount. However that would just bring them to equal footing. MBA i5 = SP3 i3.

No worries. I get egg on my face all the time. I've learned to walk on one foot because my other one is usually in my mouth. Just see some of my posts over on the Icon forum. :-D

At any rate, even with discounts (student or otherwise), the SP3 is over priced IMO. Especially, since that is the base price of the SP3 itself, minus the type cover. I also understand that Microsoft has to walk a fine line when it comes to pricing its devices if it doesn't want to undercut its OEM partners too much. A problem Apple doesn't have.

 

[Analyss14]

Yeah, sorry. Didn't mean for my first post here to be slightly belligerent. I have been here awhile just rarely feel the need to comment. I really have no allegiance to any platform, which makes me a marketing team's worst nightmare consumer. I buy whatever works best for me and unless I have a moral objection to a company based on it's practices, I will give my money to whomever can sell me the best product.

I guess my pet peeve is that Apple fans and non-fans alike have perpetuated this idea of Apple products as being expensive and exclusive when they really run the gamut as much as any other product line. I'm tired of hearing people say "the only people who don't have an Apple product are those that can't afford it." I say this with absolutely no exaggeration, I don't know a single person living in the U.S. that has an iDevice that they didn't buy subsidized while the opposite is true for people I know overseas. Most* of the people I know who own Android or WP have actually paid more upfront for their phones than iPhone owners. I have an Asus Zenbook that I received as a gift that is balls to the wall expensive (I wouldn't pay even half the price the gifter paid for it) but side-by-side with a similarly spec'd MBP, people still have this perception that the MBP is more expensive. I guess that's why it irks me when people always try to make Apple devices sound so expensive. It does nothing but add to the air of elitism when in reality you probably paid more for you Lumia than most Americans did for their iPhones.

Sorry for the rant.

 

[anon(7901790)]

Oh no worries. I like to poke fun at fan boys in general regardless of platform. But poking fun at the Apple fan boys is the most fun. They tend to be the most fanatical about it. It's almost as fun as messing with people with OCD. :-D

 

[Guzzler3]

Personally, I haven't seen any. BUT, I lost count at the number of people who come up to me an ask me about mine. I've turned into an unofficial Microsoft Rep.

In my programming class the professor saw I had one, stopped lecturing and started asking questions, which version, how much ram, storage, how do I like the pen, what's the keyboard like, just about everything you could think of. As I'm answering, everyone in class slowly got up and huddled around me and my SP3. Then everyone started asking questions. We lost about the entire class time end the end with all the questions and demo's I gave, handwriting, OneNote, OneDrive.

Everyone lost it when I pulled out my Windows Phone and showed how everything sync'd up and how I could pull up my OneNote notes on my phone. One student was doodling on my SP3 and then it showed up on my phone, everyone's jaw dropped. It got weirder when I told them you could use OneNote on Android or iPhone and not just Windows Phone and that MS is more agnostic about getting their stuff to run on as many platforms as possible now days (not like Google or Apple as in it's their stuff and only their stuff).

It seems like every time after class someone holds me up to ask more questions. Prices, how does the student discount work, do you really get a 1TB of OneDrive storage with Office 365 University, etc.

My frustration is when someone brings me their laptop to ask me questions on their code and I try to touch their screen and nothing happens. I forgot how different manufacturers implement various touch gestures on their touchpads and they aren't consistent.

 

[enthuz]

At my workplace, I see SP3s more often now with even more iPad converts. As for being overpriced, I feel that way about MBPs and SP3s.

 

[nasellok]

I'm an Architect by trade, work for Real Estate Development Company - I have the i7 - I use it for note taking, working in AutoCAD, 3d modeling in Sketchup, opening and moving around huge Revit files, and marking up PDF's with Drawboard app.

I have (3) coworkers with the i5, and one with the SP2. I have seen a few Architect consultants using it, but for the most part, it seems that the only companies that are adopting them are the ones that have people carrying around their laptops. I could see a lot of companies that wanted to adopt ipads turn to the SP3 instead - it offers so much more, in a similar form factor.

Me, personally, if I were running our IT show, and starting up a new office - id buy only SP3's with docking stations, all connected to a central server that was remotely accessed through VPN when off site. Primary workstations would be SP3 for everyone, except for people that actually needed true GPU.

 

[CKennedy]

I'm an Architect by trade, work for Real Estate Development Company - I have the i7 - I use it for note taking, working in AutoCAD, 3d modeling in Sketchup, opening and moving around huge Revit files, and marking up PDF's with Drawboard app.

I have (3) coworkers with the i5, and one with the SP2. I have seen a few Architect consultants using it, but for the most part, it seems that the only companies that are adopting them are the ones that have people carrying around their laptops. I could see a lot of companies that wanted to adopt ipads turn to the SP3 instead - it offers so much more, in a similar form factor.

Me, personally, if I were running our IT show, and starting up a new office - id buy only SP3's with docking stations, all connected to a central server that was remotely accessed through VPN when off site. Primary workstations would be SP3 for everyone, except for people that actually needed true GPU.

This is awesome to hear as i've been looking into the i5 for basically the exact same uses as you.....any performance issues or overheating issues? I'll probably be running cad 2012 and sketch up

 

[Bill Mitchell]

What I am amazed by is how many supermodels I meet who see my SP3 and immediately want to sleep with me.

Winning!

(Seriously though, people react like they've never heard of the thing. Now you know why half the people on the street have no idea who Joe Biden is but DO know who Honey Booboo is. I personally get the two confused but then remind myself Honey Booboo is the smart one. Takeaway - people are dumb.)