LOL! Pure geek fantasy. I went to check out the Surface and Win 9 at the Microsoft Store yesterday. I was browsing on the Surface and Explorer too forever to load a page and get to native resolution.
Surface hardware is a bit heavy, plasticy, and cheap feeling — a bigger Kindle Fire (previous version) at an iPad price. Windows 8 isn’t entirely intuitive like iOS or Android either. It’s an interesting concept, but doesn’t seem like it’s just there yet.
Clearly it’s a Rev A product. This version isn’t going to outsell anyone. We’ll see what next enhancement next round brings. But I don’t see a whole lot of consumers buying in just yet at least — if every. Consumers are moving away from the the traditional CPU all together (See falling PC sales) and with the big libraries of apps people already have for their Android and iOS devices, Microsoft is still far back in this race.
“I was browsing on the Surface and Explorer too forever to load a page and get to native resolution.”
Did you rule out a slow connection to the router/internet source because too many folks were on line at the same time?
I’ve have Win 8/IE 9 on my 5 year old amd machine and it connects really fast and loads pages quickly. I don’t have the “surface machines” though.