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Old 12th Feb 2013, 09:19   #181
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Didn't stop it from selling out on the first day.
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128GB Surface Pro sells out: High demand, short supply, or both?
64GB units apparently abundant. 128GB can't even be pre-ordered currently.

Sign of a successful launch? That's harder to say. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet reports that some stores received just a single device to sell. With stock that thin on the ground, even idle curiosity would likely cause the Surface Pro to sell out. Other stores certainly had more stock: one Ars reader reports the Westfield San Francisco Centre Microsoft Store had dozens of 128GB units, with one person buying 23 of the machines in a single transaction. So Microsoft has certainly sold a bunch of the 128GB Surface Pros—but whether that represents thousands, tens of thousands, or even more, we don't know.
We do know that 64GB Surface Pros, however, still seem to be relatively abundant, with stores still having stock and Microsoft's online store still taking orders.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/...upply-or-both/
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Didn't stop it from selling out on the first day.
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128GB Surface Pro sells out: High demand, short supply, or both?
64GB units apparently abundant. 128GB can't even be pre-ordered currently.

Sign of a successful launch? That's harder to say. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet reports that some stores received just a single device to sell. With stock that thin on the ground, even idle curiosity would likely cause the Surface Pro to sell out. Other stores certainly had more stock: one Ars reader reports the Westfield San Francisco Centre Microsoft Store had dozens of 128GB units, with one person buying 23 of the machines in a single transaction. So Microsoft has certainly sold a bunch of the 128GB Surface Pros—but whether that represents thousands, tens of thousands, or even more, we don't know.
We do know that 64GB Surface Pros, however, still seem to be relatively abundant, with stores still having stock and Microsoft's online store still taking orders.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/...upply-or-both/
Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the RT did not sell well, its lousy distribution and availability weren't considered a factor. Now the Pro sells out, it suddenly is. Much bias going on?
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Old 13th Feb 2013, 08:48   #184
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. When the RT did not sell well, its lousy distribution and availability weren't considered a factor. Now the Pro sells out, it suddenly is. Much bias going on?
Lousy distribution and availability werent considered a factor?!
That was posted more than two months ago. Bias?
But it is improving, the Surface RT will finally start its sales over here tomorrow, February 14th 2013.
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Old 13th Feb 2013, 09:11   #185
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They weren't by many tech reviewers; they just concluded that the RT must be a bad (or at least undesirable) device. But now the Surface Pro sold out, it's the first explanation they resort to.

Anyway, I installed today's firmware update and it dos what it says on the tin. Sound is now much louder without having to invoke sound enhancements; app switching is snappier and Office now loads within three seconds rather than the six or more it used to take.

Cannot comment on the rest as I never experienced problems with WiFi or updates.
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They weren't by many tech reviewers; they just concluded that the RT must be a bad (or at least undesirable) device. But now the Surface Pro sold out, it's the first explanation they resort to.
To be honest I'm more interested the fact the RT didn't sell out as I still maintain that "Sold Out" is an obligatory orchestration when releasing a popular tech product.
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Bad marketing, and really good competition from the iPad. When you aim at muggles, you have to reassure them a lot to take the leap into a new ecosystem. Fact is, almost everybody who bought a Surface RT loves it. The few who returned it are the same people who returned their Android tablets because they thought they had bought an iPad.

Either way, I can hardly fault it, and (or maybe because) I'm a power-user. I considered carefully my needs vs. what the device could do and found the best match of all devices out there right now.

Browser now is snappier too. Jailbreak still works. Good update.
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Microsoft: More 128 GB Surface Pros in stores by Saturday

Microsoft sold out of its first batch of the 128 GB versions of its Surface Pro tablet within a few hours of its launch on Saturday. So far, Microsoft has not commented on just how many units it had available for the launch of the Windows 8 Pro tablet and some conspiracy-minded Internet commenters have suggested that Microsoft kept the supplies low in order to brag that it "sold out" of the tablet on the first day.

http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft...es-by-saturday
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What's next for Surface?

The Windows 8-powered Surface Pro isn't perfect, but Microsoft could be onto something

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/12/39...are-whats-next
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Its only been launched in 1 country which is USA so its very difficult to suggest how well or not well its doing.( surface pro that is)

Personally waiting on a haswell surface pro as are many.
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Microsoft Surface Tablet Sales Total Only 1.5 Million Units - Report.
Sales of Microsoft Surface Media and Business Tablets Considerably Below Expectations

Microsoft Corp. has only sold about 1.5 million Surface devices, including those based on Windows 8 Pro operating system as well as Windows RT OS, according to a media report. The slow start of Microsoft’s own-brand tablets emphasizes slow start of the new Windows on slates in general because of limited amount of apps as well as rather high prices.

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Sold *only* 1.5 million. Someone is bias.

What's not mentioned is also the Surface Pro already sold 400,000 of them,
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/14/41...-million-rumor
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Well, that's twice as many as the doomsayers asserted.

The apps are slowly getting better. Meanwhile the latest Windows RT firmware update allows Flash on all websites. It works very well (without battery drain).

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For a product with limited availability and relatively high price (compared to big selling hits like Nexus 7), that is a pretty good number.

*Note: iPad is not relevant in this comparison, it is a single product versus many various tablet and other form factor units from various manufacturers, to be fair you would have to compare all Windows 8 tablet/hybrid/convertible/touch laptops versus iPad.
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So 22mil vs about 3-5mil as that's about the total unit sales for the products you listed faug.

Most major laptop manufactures have not released windows 8 touch products.

People are saying only as they were expected to hit 5mil by now, instead of a 5% share its 1% share and 5mil is now total for the year instead of for the quarter some pretty big markdowns.

Surface pro has done well I'd of brought one but I can't well done Microsoft.
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I'm definitely seeing some touch screen laptops emerging. Keep in mind that it easily takes about six months to develop a new laptop, a year if it concerns a totally new product.

I am also seeing some interesting all-in-one touch screen PCs emerging, the most interesting of which is the Asus ET2300 and the Lenovo IdeaCentre A720. Still a bit rough around the edges, which tells me that they were brought out in a rush, but I expect the next generation to be a lot better.
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People are saying only as they were expected to hit 5mil by now, instead of a 5% share its 1% share and 5mil is now total for the year instead of for the quarter some pretty big markdowns.
Thats what I would of thought. Its all relative. The article doesn't compare sales of equivalent competing units though and I couldn't be arsed trying to find out or otherwise verify the above just to see if the author used the term "only" correctly.
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Sold *only* 1.5 million. Someone is bias.

What's not mentioned is also the Surface Pro already sold 400,000 of them, ...
Isnt mentioned? Same article, just have to open the link and read before commenting on it:
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The world’s largest software company only sold about 1.1 million Surface RT media tablets as well as 400 thousand Surface Pro business-oriented slates, ...

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mobile/...on_Report.html
Bias, indeed.
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Today's Surface RT update to fix more WiFi bugs in tablet

One of the most long standing issues with the Surface RT has been with its WiFi connectivity. Today, Microsoft plans to issue a new software update to the tablet that concentrates on fixing some WiFi-related issues.

http://www.neowin.net/news/todays-su...bugs-in-tablet
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Latest Surface Pro software update to fix a few issues

As stated on the official Surface update history web page, today's update will deal with a problem that relates to using the on screen touch navigation on the Surface Pro while in the UEFI boot menu. It is also supposed to fix a problem that disables the WiFi driver when users switched to "airplane mode" on the Surface Pro.

http://www.neowin.net/news/latest-su...x-a-few-issues
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