$100 Off Surface Pro

[surfaceRT 0]

Microsoft has dropped the price of the Surface Pro by $100 on the Microsoft store website. Anyone going to pick one up now that they are a little cheaper? Personally I am pretty happy with my Surface RT.

 

http://www.microsoftstore.com

 

[RMansfield 0]

I knew I should've waited! Although I've used my Surface Pro heavily since I bought it at the beginning of July.

[ikon 439]

RMansfield, if you posted I missed it, but how's your Pro working with the projectors?

[RMansfield 0]

I haven't had a chance to thoroughly test it because I've been teaching online classes this summer. However, I did connect it briefly in one class I subbed for, and for the brief time I used it that way, it worked fine. The resolution of the projector was about 1280 x 800, I believe and I had no problem. So, I'm guessing there's nothing to worry about, although I hope to give it a more in-depth test in a couple of weeks.

[ikon 439]

One reason I asked is because I used to be able to connect my Pro to my Bravia TV using a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable, but it's stopped working. Doesn't work with my wife's Pro either. And a new cable didn't help. Not sure what's going on.

[RMansfield 0]

Interesting. I had used VGA with the projector the other day. I haven't tried HDMI yet.

[ikon 439]

If you get a chance to try a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable I would love to hear your results.

[FinsUpDNC 0]

I like that some in the press are making this out to be some big negative showing Surface has failed.  Hard not to find a few price drops on PC's that have been out for a while.  If any of them put down their Macbook for a second they would know this. A 8 month PC will almost be less then when it was released.

 

Apple will make you pay the same for a device that is 23 months old days before the new version comes out which is fine for them, but not the norm. 

[CommonTek 0]

Also wasn't this just through August (for now)? Even Apple drops the price of MacBook's as the back-2-school rush is on.

[quixotic 0]

I bought mine just a few weeks ago and while I'm dissapointed I didn't wait, I'm more concerned about what's ahead. The worst thing would be if Microsoft decides to bail out of the tablet business altogether. It could also be that a second generation device is coming.

 

Let's hope for the latter.