At last the mystery of the price of SurfaceThe new microsoft tablet, although the truth may be a bit discouraging after the rumors that emerged during the summer and that came to place its price at $ 200, and that is that the minimum price will be more than double that amount: $500.
Although Surface is already a well-known tablet to the interested public, both in terms of design as, in good part, to technical characteristics, there has always been a big gap around how much it would cost, adorned by controversy with the other manufacturers of Windows 8 tablets and rumors of all kinds. The estimates more frequent, and apparently more serious, placed their price around the 300 or 400 dollarsAlthough the range offered by Microsoft was considerably more vague: $ 300-800.
If in the case of other devices, as with iPad Mini For example, expert estimates have been fairly accurate as indicated the latest leaksIt seems, however, that they have fallen quite short on this one. As reported Engadget, presumably an error of Microsoft has made appear for a few moments the price list on its own page and, in line with the high cost of other Windows tablets that we have already known, the minimum for which the Surface tablet can be purchased is $500 (which, as usual, presumably will translate into 500 euros and not the 380 euros that would be a literal conversion). The 500 dollars, in any case, are for the most basic version of the tablet and if we want to acquire together the smart cover with keyboard that usually accompanies you in the photographs we will have to pay nothing less than $600. Furthermore, both prices are for the version with 32 GB hard disk, going up to $700 in case we are interested in that of 64 GB.
With these prices it is clear that the goal of Surface is far from being compete With the new stars of the market, the smaller screen tablets that can be had for around 200 euros (Nexus 7 y Kindle Fire HD, mainly), equating itself rather with the still dominator of the sector, the iPad Apple, although only time can tell with what result.