Last week a Swedish website published that Surface could go on the market for a price over $ 1.000 (and less than $ 2.000) which caused a certain stir in the specialized media, since Microsoft had announced that, above all, Surface would be competitively priced. Shortly after this same website published that the figure responded to own estimates and not to an internal company leak; however, rumors regarding the price of the product do not stop surfacing.
Last June, Microsoft announced the launch of two different versions of what will be its tablet: Surface RT y Surface Pro. The first one will have a processor ARM and will come to cover the functions of the tablets to use, while the second will have a processor Intel and it will be more oriented to also act as an ultrabook. Both will run Windows 8 And although, according to the company, they will be released at competitive prices, we still know little about it.
However, the information that placed the price of Surface between the $ 1.000 and $ 2.000 don't seem to settle; on the contrary, now other data begins to circulate much more coherent. Erick Franklin from CNET website You think the 32GB Surface RT will sell for $ 530 and the 64GB for $ 630; While the Pro version will cost $ 850 for the 64GB and $ 950 for the 128GB.
Still everything is estimates until we get the official figures from Microsoft. What we do know for sure is that the company is already moving chips to begin production of the device that will go on sale at the end of October. In fact, the signature is recruiting engineers in their ranks to finish specifying the product, through job offers on their own website. They thus seek to further strengthen the already powerful work group dedicated to Surface.
Microsoft also speaks on its page of "fast product development cycles”. This intention could reveal two things, the first one that by operating in cycles, they may be adapting their strategy more to the way of proceeding. Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, who produce a product a year, than that of other companies such as Samsung that works in a much more dispersed and flexible way. In addition, if it adapts to these development cycles, it is something that must necessarily be reflected in the price, so practically is discarded the figure of $ 1.000, and we understand that it will be an amount more in line with that of direct competitors.