Four months after first unveiling the Surface, Microsoft has finally priced the tablet and begun pre-orders.
The tablet goes on sale on October 26th, and will cost $499 for a 32GB model with no accessories. Moving up the price ladder is the 32GB model with Surface Touch Cover in black for $599 and the 64GB model with cover for $699.
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Agree that they priced it $100 too high. I may get one anyway, but a lot of people will turn away because Microsoft overpriced this. Very poor decision by Microsoft.
I was really looking forward to this but at that price! what were they thinking?! with the heavy competition out there this is not the way to introduce yourself to the market, especially Microsoft. I'm dissappointed and can forsee a price drop coming once they realise that they mucked this right up.
Originally posted by SoTired: Agree that they priced it $100 too high. I may get one anyway, but a lot of people will turn away because Microsoft overpriced this. Very poor decision by Microsoft.
Yeah I think I might still get one too, just gonna make someone else pay the 200 hundred bucks for me lol
Originally posted by i1der: i remember the day someone saying $199 for RT... lol
That was the logical price, well, logical from a corporate logic standpoint, still not worth that much. $500 for a base model? I can get an actual laptop for half that...and it will actually run Windows software!
