Yeah I don't like any of the reviews I'm reading so far there knocking the OS more then anything and for apps? I feel like there reviewing wp7.5 or something. The surface pro should put all the tablets to the grave yard when they finally come out I just hope there not to expensive.
I am hearing this.
I feel as though people are going out of there way to nitpick every little thing and really beat the piss out of it, and possibly take the piss out of it. All of the other tablets out there had periods of not having apps to run in the beginning days, and quite a few of the reviewers really just hammer this point to death. It really should be a non-issue. The apps will be there, especially coming from someone/something as big as MS. I don't remember what Android had when they started releasing tabs, and sure, I understand Apple had the phone apps to tide them over, but it still seems a little much.
And no, I don't think the resolution thing means much. That to me is similar to the way HD tvs are sold today. Everyone pushes 1080p and makes it sound as though 720p is like being a smoker. The reality of it is(as I found doing research after receiving a 720p HD tv as a gift) it really doesn't matter or, rather, there is more to it than that. Without going off on too much of a tangent, most output signals are 720, NOT 1080. Not only that, but your eye cannot tell the difference between the 2 resolutions because(this is merely one reason) the jump from standard to HD is soooo huge. I gathered from my readings and research that even hardcore techphiles(is that even a word?) i.e. people in the industry would have trouble discerning 1080 from 720 in a blind test.
I will say, that MS did not present the RT properly. They could have easily IMO, but didn't. And now we have a lot of reviewers saying things like
"It's kind of a gimped version of Windows 8" or
" It's like a chopped down version of Windows 8", which is not helping the Surface or MS, and which it is not at all. In fact, I think RT is where they ultimately want to go. In fact, I'm already wishing that when I buy my RT, that it
didn't have the desktop Office stuff in it; I wish it was redesigned and optimized purely for RT. I really don't want the desktop.....
on that RT tablet. I want the pure experience of this new direction and that, I feel, is it. The desktop on Pro? I'm down. I will probably trade up or get a whole other Win 8 portotabhybrid in the coming months. But I'd rather it not on RT. I want the pure tablet experience.
Sorry for the quasi-rant.
Sorry for going off-topic a bit.
Thanks
-Doc