Microsoft reportedly working on $400 Surface tablets to compete with the iPad
Microsoft is working on a new line of budget Surface tablets to better compete with Apple's low-cost iPad options, according to a report from Bloomberg.
According to the report, the new Surface tablets won't just be smaller, cheaper Surface Pros. Rather, Microsoft is said to be completely redesigning the devices, with 10-inch screens instead of the 12-inch size currently found on the Surface Pro, rounded corners that more resemble an iPad than the more rectangular Surface design, and USB-C for charging. Most importantly, priced at $400, they will be more in line with Apple's cheaper tablets, too.
Google also recently introduced an education-oriented ChromeOS tablet to compete with Apple's iPad.
Also at Laptop Magazine.
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(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Friday May 18 2018, @07:05AM (1 child)
I actually have a surface pro (one of the originals, a 1514) running Mint Linux - it's actually rather nice: Pretty much everything except the display port works out of the box (and I don't care enough about the display port to try and get it to go...).
Most of the Pro series allow you to disable UEFI and boot from the USB. (Apparently the Surface-RT did not though). Be interesting to see if the same is true of these new cheap models.
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Friday May 18 2018, @07:09AM
Brainfart: I meant to say disable UEFI Secure boot mode and boot from....