Microsoft Surface priced

[Jammrock]

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us

I would have liked to see a lower starting price. Especially for the keyboard, which is priced pretty high, IMO.

Initial reviews look good though. So far people are saying the build quality is very high. Windows RT is said to be very responsive on the hardware. Apps are already flowing in steadily despite not even being on the market yet.

Will be interesting to see if this takes off.

[cjolley]

It is interesting.
And the W8 Pro version might be even more interesting.

[Jammrock]

The Surface Pro will be great. Powerful, light, full blown Win8 Pro operating system. And it's going to be expensive

Maybe work will get me one of those too.

[UtwigMU]

While the surface was a jab at OEMs, Microsoft still priced so that they can compete with their own products.

For this price to stick, they would have to hype it as premium product like Apple hyped their tablet as the next coming of Christ. This they haven't done, so I think at first Win8 and touch won't take off fast but may build up speed latter.

[Jammrock]

The ad blitz should start this week. Friday is launch day for Windows 8 and the Surface RT.