I was expecting maybe the price range of 300-400 for the RT and 600-800 for the pro. Tablet tech has been out for a while and if they wanted to compete with apple they should have priced it a bit under what apple has.....I was ready to sell my ipad to get one untill i couldnt afford it

I'm sorry, but it's not priced correctly. If you aren't Apple, you're going to have to undercut them on price in order to be successful. Just look at Kindle Fire and the Nexus 7. They are dirt cheap which is why they're so popular. Then when you factor in the fact that MS's app store is going to be a joke when compared to Apple, you have a tablet that is expensive and won't have the apps that you want/need.

For that price, they should have included the keyboard. The lack of apps alone is enough of a reason to expect this tablet to fail.

Look, I HATE Apple. Nothing would make me happier than to have someone beat the iPad. I just don't see this tablet being the one to do it. It's expensive, poor app support, and it's from MS- MS doesn't have the best reputation.

Perhaps the app support will get up to par but that's a bit of a risk considering Google can't even get their app store on par with Apple.

If you want to beat the iPad, they hardware has to be just as good, the apps have to be there, and it has to be cheaper than the iPad.

I was expecting 299 -399 for a base tablet that inst exe comparable
and this pricing for the real deal full version.
but I guess you cant expect good from this.

what an apple move shame on them really.
up to 1100$ (assuming the non rt price could be this high in the air) for a tablet you might as well buy a new laptop when you think about it.

because apple is a luxury brand,
your technology shouldn't even be in that range.
wtf 500$ for a slate of lcd and metal that costs under 150$ to make. I honestly think Microsoft is charging its self for the dam os instead of giving it away in their own devices.

and the freaking apple hipsters no I dont even know what they are yet. the freaking technology hipsters and band wagoners and website casual sheep fanbase yuppies just preorder this shit away triggering lights in Microsofts head telling them the pricing is a good idea. these sheep are just ruining the market. had the real tech people taken a stand and said no we would have real pricing.

It can't, I don't have expert knowledge on hardware so I can't say I'm with 100% certainty why but I've read somewhere that it's because windows rt devices uses arm processors. This type of a processor has a different architecture than desktop processors and it would be impossible to run windows applications on it.

proof that it can't run desktop apps comes straight from the horses mouth

http://msdn.microsoft.com/e...

scroll to frequently asked questions and read the first Q&A

"Note that desktop apps can't run on Windows RT"

Not to be confused with the higher end model though which can run desktop applications though due to the fact that it is using an intel processor

Yep and that shows how MS is fragmenting itself right out of the gate. To have different versions of the tablet which can't run all the same apps is NOT a good idea. The iPad doesn't have that problem. ALL iPads can run ALL the apps (that I'm aware of anyway).

They should have made either all of them ARM-based or all of them Intel-based. That would've produced less confusion amongst consumers.

Either way, I think it's great they're throwing in Office for free and built-in. Nice.