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Coming to a month near you; the Surface Pro launch will be in January[^]. The 64GB version is $899 and the 128GB version is $999.
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It will apparently only have 4GB of RAM. Pity, I might have considered one if it had 16GB.
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I'm currently using it on an Ultrabook with 4GB and it runs perfectly well.
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I guess it's a bit silly to expect to be able to do SharePoint development on a tablet.
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I'm doing WPF development on this and it's fine.
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SharePoint Server 2013 has a minimum requirement of 24GB for development, though it works fine (so far) in a 12GB virtual machine on my Mac with 16GB of RAM. I've heard of serious issues encountered at 8GB and less.
RAM isn't even that expensive these days. On NewEgg, you can get 16GB for around $75. I'm sure the cost changes for smaller form factors like tablets, but it looks like I won't even be given the option of paying more for more RAM.
Oh well, like I said, it's silly to expect to do serious development on a tablet. Maybe it'll be more feasible in a couple years.
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As I said, I'm fine doing WPF development on this, so I reckon it should be OK on the Surface Pro as well. I'll even do some Windows Store stuff on there as well.
I looked at SharePoint a while back and decided it wasn't for me.
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Just remote to your machine with 12GB of ram from your tablet. Best of both worlds... or a compromise of both worlds.
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I like to be able to develop software without a network connection.
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Then how do you access your long term memory? Or google as the kids these days call it
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There are, on occassion, entire moments in which I don't use Google.
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I'll probably get myself one of these when they release them. I'm still filled with nerd rage that they didn't release the Pro version at the same time as RT. Or if they had to hold something back, wait on the RT version. Least there would have been less complaints over the number of apps available.
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If it had been released before Christmas, that would have been my present sorted.
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