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I'm absolutely in the market for the Surface Pro 2 at $400-500 (keyboard/case included). I'd have to really think about it at $500-700. I'm totally not interested at the current price point -- it's about 2x what I'd consider paying for it.

For obvious reasons, the RT/non-pro/whatever they're calling the bastard ARM version, is of zero interest to me at any price point.

It would be a high-end netbook replacement for me (of which I get tremendous usage out of), not a desktop replacement. For the kind of money the SP2 is at, I can get an excellent desktop or a really nice laptop. The touch-screen and stylus support would be a cool enabler, but not so much a differentiation that I'd be willing to part with more than $50-75 premium over a normal tablet.



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