Surface tablet – Samsung SUR40
It’s not exactly mobile but it qualifies as a tablet; Microsoft’s next-generation Surface tablet is ready to be purchased from Samsung agents in 23 countries and the 40-inch tablet is also wall-mountable. It should drop through letterboxes in early 2012. It retails for a not insignificant $8,400 and is targeted at the commercial sector. Early adopters include Dassault Aviation, Fujifilm, and Royal Bank of Canada.
Samsung SUR40 surface tablet features a 40-inch display with a not-so-very-impressive 1920 x 1018 pixel resolution. The contrast ratio is more impressive at 2000:1, far in excess of most of the tablets we review, which are around 3-500. That HD display calls on the services of an AMD GPU piping the pixels, teamed with a 2.9 GHz AMD Athlon X2 dual-core processor. There are 4GB RAM and 320GB. The Samsung SUR40 Surface includes an HDMI socket (for connecting to a larger display?) and four USB-2 ports. All in all pretty average specs, reflecting the fact that the original device was developed in 2008 before multi-touch devices took off with Apple iPad.
The surface can respond to more than 50 simultaneous touch points thanks to PixelSense, which can recognize not just fingers but hands and even objects placed on the display. The Surface may not qualify for the ultrabook category but it has been slimmed down from the prototype to 4 inches thick from its previous eight inches. Microsoft foresees uses in the the automobile industry, education, finance, healthcare and retail. Fingers crossed it won’t be too long before affordable versions reach the consumer market.
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