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Microsoft admits Surface Pro 128GB storage limited to 83GB
Posted on 28 Jan 2013 at 09:34
Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet, which is due to launch with a headline-grabbing
128GB of storage space, will only have 83GB of room for users' files.
According to a statement from the company given to Softpedia, the 128GB Surface
Pro device - which swaps out the low-power ARM chip of the Surface RT for a
meatier Intel processor while upgrading the Windows RT operating system to a
full-fat installation of Windows 8 - a chunk of its 128GB capacity is taken up
by the operating system and pre-installed applications - leaving just 83GB of
user-accessible space to store files.
While it's true that 83GB is significantly more than most other tablet devices,
which typically top out at around 64GB before any add-in storage is accounted
for, that's a not-inconsiderable drop in storage space of around 35 per cent
compared to the figures shown in Microsoft's advertising.
The issue becomes more pressing when the cheaper 64GB model is taken into
account: the space used up by the operating system and pre-installed
applications is the same between devices, so - allowing for differences in
actual capacity between the two solid-state drives - the 64GB Surface Pro may
have as little as 23GB of user-accessible space.
In its defence, Microsoft has pointed out that the Surface Pro includes a USB
3.0 port for high-speed connectivity to external storage devices such as pen
drives or hard disks, along with a free SkyDrive cloud storage account offering
an additional 7GB of web-based storage. With the devices failing to reach the
promised capacities - and Barrons claiming that Microsoft may have sold as few
as 230,000 Surface RT tablets worldwide - the company may struggle to convince
tablet fans to switch from their iPads or Android devices.
Author: Gareth Halfacree
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