Microsoft launched its Surface Pro tablet today, the primary full-fledged Home windows 8 machine developed by the corporate, and already the demand is exceeding the availability for the 128 GB model of the pill. Online listings on the Microsoft Store and Staples present the Surface Pro 128 GB as out of inventory.
Whether or not the scenario is extra a results of low provide or excessive demand isn’t clear. Nonetheless, it’s abundantly clear that the 128 GB model of the Surface Pro is in a lot larger demand than its 64 GB sibling.
That is smart, provided that the Intel-based Surface Pro is an precise Home windows 8 PC, not like the ARM-based Surface RT, which doesn’t run legacy functions. Customers will be capable to deal with the Surface Pro extra like an all-purpose PC, which tends to translate into a necessity for extra storage.
See Ed Bott’s breakdown of usable storage space within the Surface Pro vs. MacBook Air.
Within the Seattle area, each the Bellevue Sq. and College Village Microsoft Shops nonetheless have each variations of the Surface Pro in inventory, primarily based on our calls a short while in the past.
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