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Is only worth that money if you have it shrink wrapped. Read more

Who cares about the label you put on it. It's about PERCEPTION. No matter how many pros you put next to it, people are not going to buy into a new paradigm. They will just buy a laptop, especially looking at the price and battery life. What advantages does Surface Pro really offer? Not enough to justify this price at Read more

Of course. iTunes and iPod was a complete system. A new walled garden. MS is trying to do the same with Surface, which will provide content and apps just like the store. If they want to get people into that garden, they need bigger doors (lower prices). Read more

Surface needs to get into the hands of people. It's not going to do so at these prices. Read more

It doesn't really matter. Artists are a niche market. This product needs to succeed at the general consumer level, period. Widespread adoption of a new concept. That's what MS needs to put out there. Read more

What you and others don't get is that Apple had no market. They created the market. They own the market. And they already produce awesomely polished products that people are happy with. There is no way people are going to sink all this money into this tablet (or RT for that matter). And the proof is that nobody is Read more

Lego X-Wing

Lego Minimodulars

That's a good point. But that won't make it popular. It's a nicheish thing. Read more

I can sell my Millenium Falcon UCS, still in the box, for about $2k now. It got it just 5 years ago and it was $200. How is that sad, Kyle? Read more

I want the Lego X-Wing Ultimate Collectors Edition set. I just want it to build it once, look at it for a few days, then destroy it to make my own stuff. Or maybe I would just keep it in the box. You see, when it was released in 2000, this thing was $149.99. Now it is $1,700 and more. You can probably buy a few of

This is dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb. DUMB. Price shouldn't be a barrier at this point. They should price the RT $200 cheaper than iPad 4 and make the RT the same price as the iPad, WITH the touch keyboard in the box. Read more