Microsoft's Surface Pro will be the most badass PC gaming tablet ever.

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

Nu UH! PROJECT FIONA!@

Joke thread? $900 price tag? Build a fvcking gaming PC that can blow that Sh!t otta the water AND get a cheaper tablet to satisfy you on the go cravings.

Joke thread? $900 price tag? Build a fvcking gaming PC that can blow that Sh!t otta the water AND get a cheaper tablet to satisfy you on the go cravings.

Jonwh18

For around that price, I'd probably just pick up one of those convertible Ultrabooks instead. Best of both worlds without inconvinience of factor.

For around that price, I'd probably just pick up one of those convertible Ultrabooks instead. Best of both worlds without inconvinience of factor.

Mozuckint

Exactly the same logic that makes me interested in a surface :)

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

The_Capitalist

It is very low spec, i would rather get a tablet/laptop hybrid, with a much better CPU/GPU

My 14'' laptop can also be used in mostly every place and is almost as convinient as a tablet, but 1000x stronger in power and i can work on

[QUOTE="The_Capitalist"]

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

loosingENDS

It is very low spec, i would rather get a tablet/laptop hybrid, with a much better CPU/GPU

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[QUOTE="The_Capitalist"]

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

psx_warrior

It is very low spec, i would rather get a tablet/laptop hybrid, with a much better CPU/GPU

I would be the first to jump in if it had enough ram/power to run 3D studio and program on, but this will hardly do any of those

A laptop that becomes tablet would be my first choice, if it can take the heat of course

Sad part is, it's probably better than my laptop. I think it's a miracle that Dawn of War 2: Retribution is playable on that thing! (No single digit frames per second.)

both my desktop and my laptop (individually) cost less than that and cream it

Progress will make desktop and non-hybrid laptops obsolete. i7 Quadcore and the latest GPU in a tablet form factor with over 8 hr battery life. Till then, we're stuck with this stop-gap.

Progress will make desktop and non-hybrid laptops obsolete. i7 Quadcore and the latest GPU in a tablet form factor with over 8 hr battery life. Till then, we're stuck with this stop-gap.

Mr_BillGates

this post made me blow more air out of my nose than usual

Progress will make desktop and non-hybrid laptops obsolete. i7 Quadcore and the latest GPU in a tablet form factor with over 8 hr battery life. Till then, we're stuck with this stop-gap.

Mr_BillGates

Progress will make desktop and non-hybrid laptops obsolete. i7 Quadcore and the latest GPU in a tablet form factor with over 8 hr battery life. Till then, we're stuck with this stop-gap.

Mr_BillGates

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Progress will make desktop and non-hybrid laptops obsolete. i7 Quadcore and the latest GPU in a tablet form factor with over 8 hr battery life. Till then, we're stuck with this stop-gap.

Jonwh18

Lol @ tablet gaming.

Lol @ tablet gaming.

Riadon2

I'm beginning to see the value in Sony trying to keep the ps3 going for as long as it can before introducing a next gen console and keeping the flow of games coming to the ps3. psx_warrior

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

The_Capitalist

You gotta understand, I don't spend 1000 dollars buying tablet to play PC games that I can play infinitely better on my, well, PC. I buy tablet for other reasons.funsohng

Never mind the low specs.

Imagine playing Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, or some other old school game on the train on a Surface with the digitizing pen.

Imagine the freaken possibilities. PC gaming at the palm of one's hand is now possible!

The_Capitalist

tablets and pc gaming lulz peanut butter and and oil sound like a yummy mix.everythingcasua

I seriously don't get it. Who are they trying to market this thing to that don't already have some sort of tablet?psx_warrior

An imaginary audience that it really appeals to. No one!

next we see people saying iPAD to be the next super gaming machine... no thx

4 hours battery life :lol: no thanks

The Pro should actually be pretty great for traditional tablet style games to be fair.

Actually, I stand corrected when I said you wouldn't play any games on this thing. I was looking around and found some Youtube videos that feature gameplay on the Surface Pro's video solution, and despite the fact that you would have to turn the settings pretty much to their bare minimum, it looks like the Surface Pro and it's HD 4000 should be able to play all sorts of PC games. Far Cry 3, Crysis 2, the Witcher 2, Battlefield 3... all of them playable on the integrated graphics. It won't look as nice as your rig of course, but it's still a nice option to have. So yeah... bonus. donalbane

This is exactly what people arent paying attention to. Apparently they played Borderlands 2 on it during some side demos in Las Vegas during CES. I also heard it played Civilization V. Think about that for a second. You likely can run Steam on this thing and most if not all of its games. iTunes will run on it. Yes you will be able to run development environments on it too. Its not likely worth playing some of today's top games on, but I'm sure it will adequately play legacy titles and titles that arent as graphically demanding like BF3. Thats far better than what you can do on any other tablet.

[QUOTE="donalbane"]Actually, I stand corrected when I said you wouldn't play any games on this thing. I was looking around and found some Youtube videos that feature gameplay on the Surface Pro's video solution, and despite the fact that you would have to turn the settings pretty much to their bare minimum, it looks like the Surface Pro and it's HD 4000 should be able to play all sorts of PC games. Far Cry 3, Crysis 2, the Witcher 2, Battlefield 3... all of them playable on the integrated graphics. It won't look as nice as your rig of course, but it's still a nice option to have. So yeah... bonus. -ArchAngeL-777-

This is exactly what people arent paying attention to. Apparently they played Borderlands 2 on it during some side demos in Las Vegas during CES. I also heard it played Civilization V. Think about that for a second. You likely can run Steam on this thing and most if not all of its games. iTunes will run on it. Yes you will be able to run development environments on it too. Its not likely worth playing some of today's top games on, but I'm sure it will adequately play legacy titles and titles that arent as graphically demanding like BF3. Thats far better than what you can do on any other tablet.

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[QUOTE="donalbane"]Actually, I stand corrected when I said you wouldn't play any games on this thing. I was looking around and found some Youtube videos that feature gameplay on the Surface Pro's video solution, and despite the fact that you would have to turn the settings pretty much to their bare minimum, it looks like the Surface Pro and it's HD 4000 should be able to play all sorts of PC games. Far Cry 3, Crysis 2, the Witcher 2, Battlefield 3... all of them playable on the integrated graphics. It won't look as nice as your rig of course, but it's still a nice option to have. So yeah... bonus. MBirdy88

This is exactly what people arent paying attention to. Apparently they played Borderlands 2 on it during some side demos in Las Vegas during CES. I also heard it played Civilization V. Think about that for a second. You likely can run Steam on this thing and most if not all of its games. iTunes will run on it. Yes you will be able to run development environments on it too. Its not likely worth playing some of today's top games on, but I'm sure it will adequately play legacy titles and titles that arent as graphically demanding like BF3. Thats far better than what you can do on any other tablet.

Most ultrabooks Ive seen arent really all that much better if at all, for the same price.

[QUOTE="MBirdy88"][QUOTE="-ArchAngeL-777-"]

This is exactly what people arent paying attention to. Apparently they played Borderlands 2 on it during some side demos in Las Vegas during CES. I also heard it played Civilization V. Think about that for a second. You likely can run Steam on this thing and most if not all of its games. iTunes will run on it. Yes you will be able to run development environments on it too. Its not likely worth playing some of today's top games on, but I'm sure it will adequately play legacy titles and titles that arent as graphically demanding like BF3. Thats far better than what you can do on any other tablet.

-ArchAngeL-777-

Most ultrabooks Ive seen arent really all that much better if at all, for the same price.

In fact, checking out ultrabooks for the same price shows many of them using very similar if not the same specifications as the Surface Pro. They usually are bigger than the Surface though. I think people are overestimating the alternatives.

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[QUOTE="MBirdy88"] I could get a touchscreen ultra book with a dedicated gpu for the same price that does everything it does though.MBirdy88

Most ultrabooks Ive seen arent really all that much better if at all, for the same price.

The Surface can be used in your lap just fine, and you can hook a USB mouse in same as you have on your laptop.

In fact, checking out ultrabooks for the same price shows many of them using very similar if not the same specifications as the Surface Pro. They usually are bigger than the Surface though. I think people are overestimating the alternatives.

-ArchAngeL-777-

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In fact, checking out ultrabooks for the same price shows many of them using very similar if not the same specifications as the Surface Pro. They usually are bigger than the Surface though. I think people are overestimating the alternatives.

donalbane

I agree. All the hands on reports seem very positive too. For me, its finally a tablet that I consider actually useful. Overall they are pretty cool devices, but if Im going to shell out $500+ on a tablet, it had better do more than my smartphone.

I'm a Tablet PC enthusiast, but I sure as hell don't buy them for games. Not when most of them are crippled with Intel graphics, and the only decent dedicated graphics option is a Fujitsu Lifebook T901 with an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 4200M, which still isn't all that powerful. And it's optional, and it still costs over $1,000 in most cases. Also, there's another major issue that prevents old-school RPGs like Baldur's Gate, Fallout, etc. from working as well as you'd think with an active digitizer pen; they're made for relative mouse input, so an absolute input device like a digitizer pen results in the game cursor utterly spazzing out on you. Damn shame, since it would be pretty nice to play them that way. Long story short, tablet computers are work tools (at least the ones equipped with proper digitizer pens from Wacom or N-trig or some other vendor), not playthings. Leave the gaming to a PC with some decent graphics hardware under the hood, which is most likely a desktop unless you want to pay twice the price for half the performance because portability is that important to you.NamelessPlayer

I dont think you buy them for games, but the fact the Surface can adequately play PC games is a definite plus. I have a gaming laptop but its big (18" HP). its essentially a desktop replacement, and its battery is shot. I have to keep it plugged in all the time. Replacement batteries for it are next to worthless as they have a reputation for lasting maybe a year for your $120+.

Bottom line: I dont need a new gaming machine, but would like to have another portable option without buying another full up laptop. Surface will fill that portability void I am missing, plus be a better gaming option that traditional tablets if I so choose. Its essentially a laptop in tablet form which is perfect for my needs.