ASUS Windows 8 tablets - pricing and specifications

    The day before yesterday, Steve Ballmer opened the curtain on the mystery of what it would cost produced by Microsoft tablet, known as Surface, at the same time on the vine Zaruba popular rumor , which appeared in August this year with the filing tehnobloga Engadget, that the alleged minimum configuration Surface will be priced Nexus or Kindle Fire at $ 199.

    Almost as if by order, or by chance, the ZDNet reviewers had at their disposal a “roadmap” from ASUS regarding the release of new tablets on Windows 8 RT and “clean” Windows 8. We can immediately say that Ballmer’s statement that the minimum the price of Surface will be $ 300 sounds pretty soft compared to the planned price policy of ASUS, and if Microsoft really plans to arrange something like dumping, then Surface has quite a few chances to become a popular product.





    So, it is clear that the most “budget” model from ASUS will be the Vivo Tab tablet with the Windows RT operating system for $ 599, and if you want to buy a keyboard for it, you will have to pay another $ 199 - in other words, the cost of the complete set will be 798 $.

    The next in the price category is the device already with Windows 8 on board the Vivo Tab, the price of which is $ 799, and the cost of the keyboard with it is again comparable to the cost of Google Nexus 7.

    And, finally, the top Taichi (Notebook + Tablet) starts at a price almost $ 1300, which can hardly be called easily accessible.

    Thus, we can conclude that devices on Windows 8 will obviously not be as cheap as expected, and the release of a Microsoft tablet at a price of $ 300 can really contribute to the fact that Surface expects noticeable success against the background of prices from other manufacturers.

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