How long I have to wait?

ssal

ssal

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I purchased a Asus X250TA about 8 months ago and I absolutely love the versatility of it. For $200, it is a full computer which I can load all my regular software and do the thing I've doing with any of my regular laptop.

The draw back is the small and not too convenient keyboard and the limited amount of 32GB HHD and 2GB DRAM.

With Moore's law, everything will be cheaper or you get a lot more with the same $$$. I think the next iteration on this line would be:

A slightly faster processor
4 GB DRAM
64 GB HHD (emmc)
2 in 1 removable tablet like screen
And all this for $200

Want to guess when that future would be? There are something close to it for about $300 today.
 
You do realize these small machines are only designed for email and web surfing right? You want a more powerful machine and better specs then get something bigger.
 
I have two other "bigger" machines. The X205TA is for convenient. Lighter than a iPad but fully loaded with MS Office that includes Outlook, Excel, Word and Access. I also have Photoshop loaded there. Oh, I have my Active Trader software to play with the market.

I carry it with me when I do in town travel. The battery is good for 7 hours plus. I do trades. Keep track of my stock. Some minor development with Excel and Access. Oh, I watch movies with it too.

I think a better keyboard layout, 4 gb of dram and 64 gb of emmc would be a reasonable expectation. I am not much of a touch screen guy so the 2-1 is not that critical for me.
 
I don't want to spend more for a toy. I have other good machine that doesn't cost as much.

BTW, I always wonder where MS stick those unsold Surface. They have about 3% of the PC market and they spent so much pushing it. Walk into a MS Store and you see so many over price Surface, lots of sales staff, and about a handful of customers browsing. Quite contrary to the scene at an Apple store.
 
ssal said:
I don't want to spend more for a toy. I have other good machine that doesn't cost as much.

BTW, I always wonder where MS stick those unsold Surface. They have about 3% of the PC market and they spent so much pushing it. Walk into a MS Store and you see so many over price Surface, lots of sales staff, and about a handful of customers browsing. Quite contrary to the scene at an Apple store.
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The Surface is definitely not over priced since it really competes in the ultralite laptop category and is very attractive to business travelers. True, the Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 didn't sell well but the Surface Pro 3 has been a run away success for Microsoft. The jury is still out regarding the Surface Pro 4 but the new MS laptop, the Surface Book, sold out in just 5 days.

I owned Android tablets and lower cost Windows tablets before buying my Surface Pro 3. Since getting the Surface I got rid of my other tablets because I never used them any more. They were just toys, the Surface is a REAL computer.

I think the fact that Apple came out with the iPad Pro with it's Apple Pencil is very telling. They say "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"!
 
The Surface is not a "toy". What is the point of this thread anyways? Of course components get cheaper over time.
 
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