Microsoft has more than once hinted that it is interested in releasing the Microsoft Surface to the general public, assuming that it can cut the price down significantly enough. We haven't heard many details about what Redmond has been up to on this front, but now some intriguing ones have surfaced (pardon the pun). Microsoft recently sent out a marketing survey for a horizontal multitouch computing device codenamed Oahu (which appropriately translates to "The Gathering Place"). Oahu is likely to be consumer version of the Microsoft Surface, and Microsoft is currently estimating that such a device would set a family back $1,500.
According to the survey's description of Oahu, it really is a Microsoft Surface: more than one person can interact with it at the same time, touching icons open up programs, games, or music, fingertips are used to expand and shrink objects on the screen, an on-screen keyboard can be used to input information, it communicates wirelessly with other devices (such as digital cameras, cell phones, and MP3 players), and there is no wait time to start it up. The survey also notes that Oahu can come as a freestanding table, placed into a piece of furniture, or built into a countertop. Microsoft also makes a point to emphasize that the device is in no way portable and that the size allows four people to sit around it "comfortably."
yup i'd buy it if i had the money and a place big enough to put it so i didn't have to use it as a coffe table, and as for gaming another monitor and your keyboard and mouse would soon solve that.
I would buy it if it came with a media center type of software that allows me to control my TV. This way, it can act like a coffee table, foot-rest, remote control, TiVo, as well as something to play arround with when guests arrive, etc.
I know this is sort of like mostly using it as a touchscreen controller for the TV, but if I can make it a dual screen computer with both the table and the TV as screens "stacked" where I can move the internet from the table to the TV and vice versa with videos, then I think it would be cool.
It would also be good with games because you should be able to program a virtual controller of any type and play with your friends in front of the TV. Yes, in addition to the lame piano demo.
It's got to be tough like the real Surface where you can stand on it so if we wanted to, we can do some DDR type of games... Then maybe I will buy 2.
It's a cool idea, but currently looks very uncomfortable to use. If you got the early adopters, "super-cool geeks" and those with spare $$$ using it and spreading the word, manufacturing costs would eventually come down and the resultant cheaper versions become available, it could have a strong chance.
The way I see it, at worst it will just become a piece of furnature.
I'm sure you will be able to "upgrade" the computer in it in various ways.
And I'm sure future versions of Windows will support those "cards" or whatever that connect to the cameras/projectors inside the table.
Well i have to say hell yes, I'd pay more than that for 1 hehe but there is 1 small worry though.... i wouldn't feel so smug about having one if it blue screen while entertaining guests lmao
Well i have to say hell yes, I'd pay more than that for 1 hehe but there is 1 small worry though.... i wouldn't feel so smug about having one if it blue screen while entertaining guests lmao
phht...good luck with that one. Just the other day I was at the airport and one of those registration touch terminals kept rebooting Windows XP. rolf. Well...at least there were 5 others around it you can use.
I think i do not well understand our replay.iIs my computer so damaged that i need pay so much for my own microsoft surface.but it is new enogh and carefully used.please to explain me more detailed this problem because i think i do not well understood Thank you cristina 25.
