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Microsoft Surface 2.0: The World's Biggest iPad

Forbes Thursday 6th January, 2011

Image via Wikipedia Steve Jobs took the iPod touch and made it bigger. And while the idea of a 9.7-inch iPod touch may be kind of ridiculous, it’s also kind of great. Between March and September Apple sold 7.5 million of its 9.7-inch iPad tablets. Well Microsoft has an even bigger touch-screen computer, the table-sized Surface, and Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer is determined to make it work. Ballmer introduced its next-generation touch-sensitive table computer during his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wednesday. One way or another, this is sure to be the next big thing. For starters, the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft surface is just “four-inches thin” (take THAT Apple), which is actually much thinner than the old version of Surface. Size, ...

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