Hi everyone, thanks so much for your comments. You've actually persuaded me to buy one, so here I am, typing on my new Surface Pro 2. It is pretty awesome so far, though I haven't done any intensive tasks yet, but love the Metro system, and for any 'missing' apps, you still have the desktop to download ANYTHING you want.
AWESOME! Congrats. I think what really helps the Surface Pro 2 be so fast is the following:
-> Junk free
-> Super lean.. like not even control panels for drivers... keeping everything speedy.
-> Part of the top fastest SSD mSATA 3 you can get at the consumer level. No cheeping out here, like putting the slowest SSD that they could get, just to say "it has an SSD!", like some other manufactures.
-> Fast LPDDR3. Already LPDDR3 (Low Powered DD3) cost a lot more than regular DDR3, as it from my understanding that they hand pick the best chips, so that they can operate under low powered environment reliability, but it's also fast chips they used: 1600MHz, the max speed the CPU supports.
Yea, Windows 8, if you give it a chance, and learn how to use it, it's amazing. I can't go back to Windows 7. Touch screen or no touch screen. I have being using Windows 8 on my 5 year old laptop before I got my Surface Pro 2, and on my gaming PC. I think people freak out because it looks too different, as the Start Menu, a stable of Windows, is presented differently. Not to mention that review sites, played the "FIRST!" game with Windows 8, where as soon as they got their hands on it, within hours, they release a review on it. How can you learn all this within a few hours, AND write an review at the same time. You can't. So they essentially bashed Windows 8 for nothing.
It gets to show you that sometimes you need to make an opinion of things yourself.
Granted, Microsoft did a few miss steps, they should have added a tutorial, video's and a full help on how to use the Start Screen, like they did with Windows 7, especially that something like this changed. I mean, NOW they have all this.. but it should have been there since day 1. This would have helped a lot, I think. Anyway,
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