That said, users then also need to spend another $100 on a keyboard cover to get the full experience, more money on Microsoft Office and if they buy the cheapest version get barely 25GB of storage for their own programmes thanks to the size of the operating system itself. The 10" screen has been criticised as too small for such a capable specification machine, and the design makes the device slightly too heavy and bulky to be used quite as people are coming to expect to use tablets. Battery life, too, is less than other devices.
Microsoft's ambitions for the Surface remain lofty however: they want to bring PC operating systems to tablets, rather than the mobile-specific versions such as Google's Android or Apple's iOS, both of which are born from phones rather than PCs. And as such many critics have praised the new Surface for both its ambition and for the direction of travel it establishes.
So Surface may, according to American reviewers, not be a product to yet rush out and purchase. But it could also foretell the future story of computing. That means keyboards that take up hardly any space and are optional extras for devices that primarily use large touchscreens. Perhaps ironically, a product lambasted as compromised in every direction may actually be showing rivals the way to go. Expensive though it may be, it does indicate Microsoft's commitment to providing leadership.
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