A month ago, Microsoft unveiled Surface tablet computers of the second generation. Today, the device began arriving in stores from 21 countries , but Russia in the list of the first wave is not. In early November, the plates will be sold in China, relative to other regions of the information has not yet been announced.
Surface original models the company released in June of last year. Although the Surface Pro hit the market later youngest Surface RT, experts noted the relatively better sales dynamics device. Externally, the new plates are not much different from the previous generation of devices , but Microsoft, however , has made significant improvements in them .
New tablets – Surface and Surface Pro 2 2 – were completely updated hardware and operating system. The first is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 4 processor and runs on Windows 8.1 RT, the other uses an Intel Haswell generation , and Windows 8. More details about the devices can be found here .
The cost model Surface 2 with 32 GB of internal storage is $ 449, for $ 549 you can get a modification with 64 GB of memory. The basic version of Surface Pro 2 with 4 GB of RAM and storage to 64 GB is $ 899 , $ 999 asking for a modification of the repository to 128 GB , the next step – increase the amount of RAM to 8GB , and store up to 256 GB , the price of such a modification is $ 1,299 , the most ” advanced” version is on board 8 GB of RAM and a solid state drive of 512 GB, its price – $ 1,799. By the way , the last two modifications Surface Pro 2 to the consumers would get no earlier than December 15.
Also on sale is the first generation of Surface , now it has fallen to $349.
Microsoft hopes that the new tablet will be able to impose competition iPad. Surface is the first generation , however , failed. Financial losses from the production of the first generation of tablets the company estimated at $900 million
