Next SurfaceRT To Come With Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, LTE 157
recoiledsnake writes "Following up on our previous discussion of Microsoft selling discounted SurfaceRT tablets to schools (which fueled speculation about the future of Surface RT), Bloomberg is now reporting that Microsoft is fast at work on the next Surface RT which will replace the current Tegra 3 with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip which has stellar benchmarks against the likes of the upcoming Tegra 4, Apple A6X, and Exynos processors, especially in the GPU and graphics department. Since the SoC comes with 3g/LTE, this might be the first Surface to support integrated cellular data. There are also indications that there could be an 8" version, and that the new versions might be revealed alongside the Windows 8.1 preview bits at the upcoming BUILD conference, starting on June 26."
Re:This is great (Score:0, Interesting)
So far you've been only posting on MS-related stories and you're really awfully quick to FP such answer, on something that people clearly don't really care about (minutes without posts, seriously, that's like unheard of), on some OP that merely gives possibilities of future devices, and saying that MS _might_ be doing something with _probably_ some silicon.
Seriously
Re:Microsoft can do whatever they want to it... (Score:2, Interesting)
The baffling thing is that RT could be alright. It could run re-compiled apps from anyone. Legacy software would be a problem, but anything actively developed would be ported with little effort. That would rock! There is actually a lot of really useful OSS software for windows. .. But you can't do this. You can, if you root the device. But it's unsupported.
Instead, MS wants you to buy software only through their app store. Just like apple devices. Trouble is, there is already a very active and very large development community for apple. Why would I buy an RT pad over an ipad?
The answer is there isn't. And there isn't for anyone else either. Thats why nobody is buying them. You can't beat the ipad by being the same as it. Nobody is better at being apple, than apple. You have to be better, or there is no reason to switch.