Gonna order tonight if that quidco is still available. Pcworld will only be 100 cash back regardless of the size of order (meaning if your surface and official accessories go over £1000 then MS will be cheaper)
Played around with the device today in pcworld, and it is really really nice. Although quite interesting that Microsoft student store was blocked on the stores WiFi. Really liked the device, although it'll take a bit of getting used to the pen. It requires a LOT more pressure than I'm used to using when writing. So as such it was coming out completely jaggy and unreadable, and I have good writing. But over all I LOVED it. It felt fantastic in the hand, 12" had been a concern but is great, plenty large enough, and it also convinced me to get the black type cover. Its more like a dark grey, and made it look like a very fancy executive (paper) notebook. Amazing. Word from the Microsoft employee who was helping me with it, was if you buy from Harrods you'll quite possibly be getting it a day early. Not that one day matters now its already released and its not for bragging rights.
Oh, and the gf, a huge Mac fan, she got a little bit giddy after the salesman knew that I had done a lot of research, turned his attention to her and brought up a bunch of painting tools and she rather fell in love a bit. (As a non artist who has never used anything beyond paint, I really really loved the whole idea in fresh paint of actually mixing colours on the canvas, and then being able to press one button and "dry it" but that's not really a surface feature.
All in all I'm stoked. And fingers crossed I'll save myself £200
Played around with the device today in pcworld, and it is really really nice. Although quite interesting that Microsoft student store was blocked on the stores WiFi. Really liked the device, although it'll take a bit of getting used to the pen. It requires a LOT more pressure than I'm used to using when writing. So as such it was coming out completely jaggy and unreadable, and I have good writing. But over all I LOVED it. It felt fantastic in the hand, 12" had been a concern but is great, plenty large enough, and it also convinced me to get the black type cover. Its more like a dark grey, and made it look like a very fancy executive (paper) notebook. Amazing. Word from the Microsoft employee who was helping me with it, was if you buy from Harrods you'll quite possibly be getting it a day early. Not that one day matters now its already released and its not for bragging rights.
Oh, and the gf, a huge Mac fan, she got a little bit giddy after the salesman knew that I had done a lot of research, turned his attention to her and brought up a bunch of painting tools and she rather fell in love a bit. (As a non artist who has never used anything beyond paint, I really really loved the whole idea in fresh paint of actually mixing colours on the canvas, and then being able to press one button and "dry it" but that's not really a surface feature.
All in all I'm stoked. And fingers crossed I'll save myself £200
