Posted by: kurtsh | October 1, 2013

INFO: Notes from the Surface 2 Launch event

On-Demand: Surface 2 Launch Event
Watch the on-demand presentation of the Monday, Sept. 23, Surface 2 launch event in New York City here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/presskits/surface/surfaceevent.aspx

Review the Press materials & the Announcement here:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-23surface2pr.aspx

For those without the time to review everything in the video, here are my notes from the event:

————————

imageSurface Pro 2

  • Best selling device in it’s class
  • Cleartype 1080 HD display
  • 46% more color accuracy to the screen – true colors! Really important for professionals, photos, editing movies
  • Speakers – Boosted, added Dolby to dramatically improve audio
  • FAST – Fastest device ever; faster than 95% of all laptops today
  • Graphics improvement by 50%
  • CPU performance improvement by 20% – lightning fast
  • Kickstand
    • Disappears when you don’t need it
    • Sounds like a high end car door, feels good
    • Now two tilted angles for the kickstand for taller people or people using it in their la
  • Battery
    • Added Haswell
    • Cooler, quieter
    • Focused on more battery 75% improvement in battery life 4-5 to 7-8.7

Surface 2 (ARM)

  • Performance Improvements
    • Double bus speed for wifi
    • Double bus speed for memory
    • Dramatically increased compute
    • Overall 3-4x faster
    • 72 cores on GPU
  • Silver Magnesium casing
    • 3 pieces to 2 pieces of magnesium – thinner walls
    • Lighter & thinner
  • Upgrades
    • Now USB 3.0, not 2.0
    • 1080 resolution, doubled the pixels of the display
    • 50% less reflectivity of any other tablet
    • Two level kickstand
    • 25% battery life added (12 hours)
    • HDMI out
    • USB Wireless
  • Windows 8.1
    • Will run 3 apps on the same screen simultaneously now
    • User switching for families with multiple people logging in with different profiles
    • Lock down for children – personalization
    • 100,000 apps – Mint, Facebook, Flipboard, NFL Fantasy
    • Multitasking gaming & desktop
  • Office
    • Word, PowerPoint, Excel… and now Outlook!
  • Surface 2 camera
    • Back camera – 5MP
    • Front camera – 1/3rd in sensor, lowlight camera
  • Skype for Surface 2 or Surface Pro 2
    • Free international calling for 1 year
    • Free Skype WiFi for 1 year
  • SkyDrive – Everything saved
    • Sync seamlessly
    • 200GB for 2 years
  • $449 Price

Accessories

  • Power Cover
    • New Type Cover with 30Whr battery addon
    • 2.5x battery life from original product 4-5 to 10-12.5 (3-3.75)
    • Feels good, forms like a book, looks beautifu
  • Dock
    • Never need to remove cover
    • Displayport, Power, 2 monitors, 1 USB 3, 2 USB 2
    • Drives 4K monitors
  • DEMO: Red Dragon demo from Assimilate
    • 6K raw video
    • Input & edi
  • Type Cover 2
    • Took a lot of feedback around Productivity
    • Colors! New Purple, Pink, Blue, Black
    • Keyswitch is shorter, thinner, stronger, faster & silent, backlit (Fades on & off) – Almost as thin as Touch Cover
  • Touch Cover 2
    • Uniformly backlit
    • 2.5mm thin
    • Turns off when not being used, auto turns on whe
    • 1092 sensors – Touch cover
    • Faster scanning rate – pick up typing faster. Can’t miss a key
    • Predictive typing
    • Type Cover 2, Touch Cover 2 works with old and new Surface
    • GESTURES available on Touch Cover
    • “Blades” – Design Concepts & Ideas (These are just ideas & not production!)
      • Solar Panel
      • Painting
      • Toy interactive
      • Jewelry
      • Piano
      • Surface Music Kit – Available 10/22
        This last one, “Music Kit”, is real – coming to provide base level DJ capabilities to Surface

Estimated Price

  • Surface Pro
    • 64 GB/4GB of RAM + Surface pen $899
    • 128 GB/4GB of RAM + Surface pen $999
    • 256 GB/8GB of RAM + Surface pen $1,299
    • 512 GB/8GB of RAM + Surface pen $1,799
  • Surface 2
    • 32 GB $449
    • 64 GB $549
  • Accessories
    • Touch Cover 2 $119.99
    • Type Cover 2 $129.99
    • Power Cover $199.99
    • Touch Mouse $69.99
    • Dock Station $199.99
    • Wireless Keyboard Adapter $59.99
    • Car Charger $49.99

Usable storage (for North America)

  • Surface 2
    • 32 GB - 18 GB free
    • 64 GB 47 free
  • Surface Pro 2
    • 64GB 37 free
    • 128GB, 97 free
      (A      dditional space by moving 4GB recovery image from drive to USB recovery key.)

Pre-Ordering/Availability:

Posted in Uncategorized

«
»

Categories