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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 09:12 AM
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Default very, very cool

www.microsoft.com/surface

this seems to be a hybrid of concepts we've seen before, but it is so damn polished and FRIGGIN COOL that I had to share. ;D
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 09:39 AM
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man that site takes forever to load for me. a friend of mine worked on the accenture's version of this. huge interactive wall you can mess around with at o'hare airport...pretty cool. though ms looks to have made a device for the home user? i didn't really get to check much out since nothing would load.
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 12:10 PM
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Loaded just fine. Very cool. Can't wait for the home version.
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 01:53 PM
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hmm...could this be another instance of bloatware?

"introducing MS Surface 1.0, the latest OS that will transform your home and digital world! all you need is a triple-quad core CPU running at 5GHz, 500GB of RAM, and a 1 petabyte hard drive..."
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 02:50 PM
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it like... iphone...lol
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 03:45 PM
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that is gangsta! you lay your device on the table and can transfer pics directly to it
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 06:04 PM
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I wonder if you can run Microsoft Bob on that thing.
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Old Nov 25, 2007 | 10:16 PM
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Pretty cool! Likely out of my price range.

When looking at videos on the site I had to keep moving my mouse around non-stop to make them keep downloading and not stop with a buffering message. Maybe cause I'm using firefox. I dunno.
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Old Nov 26, 2007 | 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by mingster,Nov 25 2007, 02:53 PM
"introducing MS Surface 1.0, the latest OS that will transform your home and digital world! all you need is a triple-quad core CPU running at 5GHz, 500GB of RAM, and a 1 petabyte hard drive..."
haha petabyte.
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