Surface to hit consumerdom in 2011, maybe sooner
By Nilay Patel 
posted March 27th 2008 10:29PM
posted March 27th 2008 10:29PM
posted March 27th 2008 10:29PM
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I still think Surface isn't a consumer product when people can just use a regular computer that costs much less
Spending that kind of money, that credit card will no longer show up as "PAY $22.86".
I doubt that the end-product for Surface will just simply be what we've already seen in the videos.
I think the videos were more to show the cool things that Surface can do, rather than some of the more important and practical things that people could already ordinarily do with their desktops.
I'm guess what's coming in 2011 will be more of a "real" considerable desktop replacement. Where the OS, actually functions fully like a real computer OS, though with the neat Surface-style effects. I can't wait to see what comes up.
$22.86 would be one day of interest.
I, and the rest of America, couldn't care less about Microsoft Surface. They should spend more time making the rest of their junk work properly
Thats funny, I care about Microsoft Surface. By "rest Of America", you must mean the other people that don't care about it. I didn't know that 301,139,946 people all shared the same opinion as you. That's Amazing!
As they say in Sin City,
Yeesh
You should purchase your avatar a lap-dance; I'm sure he'd appreciate the attention.
lol nice
I and the rest of Canada don't care about surface.
And I know the rest of Canada is with me that MS should invest on android chicks, the goverment of Canada allows us to marry android chicks, have extra marital affairs with other married android chicks and be able to divorce android chicks so I can run away with newer hotter android chicks...yeah, Canada is with me on this one.
I am Canadian and I do not approve of roach's message.
Does any one else think this looks like the reactable? The ring control...
Why do companies have to announce big projects years before they're released? They seem to try and build a huge hype to a product, and by the time it comes out no one really cares anymore.
Example, when Spore was announced 3 years ago. Everyone I knew couldn't wait for the game, they thought it was amazing and revolutionary, and now, as the game nears release, no one really cares. There isn't much hype at all, and people are going to wait to see what others think about it before buying it instead of just rushing to stores in a frenzy.
Daikatana anyone?
or... Duke Nukem Forever...
Hell, by *2011* we'll all be disembodied brains, blissfully bobbing in Matrixesque jars, hugely enjoying direct-to-net connections with our pulsating primal pleasure centers and, well--in no need of yesteryear 'touch' GUI's...
By 2015, I will have invented the immortality potion, the cure for HIV/AIDS, AND teleportation. Hold your breath everybody!
If we are all disembodied brains, how will we sex robots?
"How will we sex robots?"
Easy, the ones with the boobs are females.
@abuzar
hopefully...
So it's going to run Windows 7 then? :P
you know the people who use this table are rich by the fact that they tip 29%.well , i guess rich people are the only ones that can afford a giant table computer.
I am far, far from rich and I will usually tip 21-22% or more sometimes. 29% would probably be appropriate for an actually nice place.
Um, really?? You tip that much on a regular basis? I thought 15% was pretty standard and 20% was for exceptional service. If you are going to a fancy restaurant, the server is already getting a higher tip because it's 20% on a much bigger bill.
Seems like America is moving towards more and more tipping which just causes restaurants to pay less and less, which doesn't seem wise to me, and really pisses off the Europeans who come over here and aren't used to much tipping at all.
microsoft needs to make their money in 2011, because we all know the world will end in 2012, as predicted by nostrodamus and some calendar in a south american jungle.
The Mayans or the Aztecs, and they had better have been wrong, that'd be my senior year in college.
o.O me too :D and I think we should have little to fear ;)
Exactly, I'm not fearing the end. I got this poster to calm me down...
http://flyangler.ca/forum/uploads/monthly_05_2007/post-65-1178829852.jpg
wow. Microsoft taking a long time to get a product out? Amazing? Certainly it will freeze when you try to use it also!
The Little League Coach
http://thelittleleaguecoach.com
lol I appreciate that, even though you missed and stuck it under some other dude's threshold. I'm hopin for a scholarship
If it's the end of the world, you can just party your whole senior year. Toga, toga. And just think, you won't have to pay back any of your student loans if society collapses and the world is consumed alternately by fire and floods. There's a good side to the end of the world if you look at the bright side.
Am I the only one who just doesn't care about this. Aside from kiosks and industrial uses I don't see them being a big hit.
I'm personally looking forward to seeing these in bars and restaurants.
Star Wars cantina scene, anyone?
exactly!
in 2011, more people will be eating at home...
I'm not paying 29% Tip for rancid undercooked meat!
I'll need that $22.86 to pay for the gallon of gas that it took me to get to there!
Where is my solar powered car Engadget?
I realized a while ago that Surface's major feature -- seamless synchronization of devices -- is brought no closer here than it currently is, and in fact becomes a more convoluted. Current technologies, implemented correctly, allow me to walk into my house, turn on a phone / camera / pda, and have that device instantly communicate with the come base computer, retrieiving information to connect with it remotely, making sure data between the two is all up to date... all without me needing to touch a single button. Most importantly, this can be done without even thinking about the process, or putting a device on top of a big ass table. It can simply work, simply by recognizing trusted devices and working wirelessly from there.
It's quite magical, actually.
With that in mind, Surface's biggest goody is a waste of time. The natural interface stuff is neat, but coming in at just the same time as some other neat natural interface stuff that is considerably less expensive...
In 2011 we'll be able to take out a 10k credit card to buy one of these so we can pay off our 10k+ in debt. We'll call it Capitalism.
But thats already been taken...
http://www.marcofolio.net/images/stories/fun/imagedump/demotivational_posters/homeless.jpg
your all ms haters. it is a very interesting and advanced hardware/software interaction. even if you aren't going to buy it, its a step in the right direction for technology like this. its being looked forward to by a lot of people, myself included.
Interesting, yes. Useful, no. At least in a home environment. Without an RFID chip in the credit card, this will not work for paying a bill at a restaurant or shopping online. Being a flat, hard surface, this will not work well for continuous keyboard input. Try tapping on a hard table with your fingers for a good while and you'll see what I mean.
So, how exactly are you looking forward to this? What application do you see for this in the home environment? Do you think people will actually spend several grand to bring in this large piece of equipment/furniture into their homes to resize photos on?
they should figure out a way to make cheaper products bearing the economic crisis in the US rather than figure out how to make it easier to spend money, since no one will have any in the near future.
goddamn bush.
Yeah, I have a response, "Uh, WHAT???"
fail
{{ collective yawn from consumerdom }}
By 2011, this thing will cost $15,000.
That's over $9000, correct?
Adjusted for future inflation.
Actually on sale this week for $8995...
Fail.
t('_'t)
It's probable that this will seem like old tech by 2011. Anyway, Mr. Picklesworth above said it all.