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One European retailer has stuck a price tag on its listings for the hot looking Microsoft Surface tablet, with the cheapest, 32GB ARM-based version of the slick tab coming it at a rather insane £648. That’s in bonkers ultrabook territory.
The price comes via Swedish retailer Webhallen, which has also priced up the 64GB version of the ARM Surface at around £920. The Windows versions are even crazier, with the top-spec 128GB Windows Pro model coming it at an astonishing £1389.
These prices may well be nothing more than a shop having a guess in order to bag some pre-order cash off early adopters, mind, although Webhallen appears to be a significant Microsoft reseller in Sweden, so we’d expect a little more than wild stabs at a final selling price. [WP Central]
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oh my god…. You think this is post worthy?
Its obviously just a speculative price to put it on the site to let people know they are coming, websites do this all the time… and they always over price them.
“These prices may well be nothing more than a shop having a guess in order to bag some pre-order cash off early adopters, mind” as to whether it’s worth posting, these are real prices from a real site so if you wanted to place an order at that price you could place an order now. I’d call that a legitimate reason for posting it.
a speculative price on a swedish website is not news worthy… regardless if he states it or not. When MS reveal the prices in MS stores then i would expect a news story.
Go away then so we can “speculate”, while you go and read the real news.
Our customers are very interested in pre-ordering these products, so we have set a high preliminary pricing for the lineup so that they may be able to pre-order them.
“Just to clarify, we have not recieved any pricing from Microsoft regarding MRSP or purchasing net cost, and any people who have booked the Surface at this high price will of course have their order adjusted before any product is shipped. So we’re not going to overcharge anyone for being an early adopter.”
im sure they were much less than that last time i saw pricing.
i guess this time £2 = $1, as opposed to the usual £=£ BS.
I was looking forward to one of these, but hoped the price would be around the £300-£400 mark at most.
im sure that was the price for the ARM one. i can understand why the full PC one (with intel CPU) would be more, as its a real PC and not just a content consumer
I knew it, knew it was too good to be true. The best thing MS has done in years and they’re gonna balls it up by out pricing themselves.
Way to over-react!
well, to be honest if those prices are correct, gsusx is right. 1300 for a tablet? you can get a fold out laptop for much less that is touch screen.
They aren’t right that is the point, they are speculative.
Hell, you can even get a Mac for that price point…
In a country that charges £6 for a pint maybe. In the uk i cant see this price happening
The taxman and his 20% VAT want to have some words with you…
Bugger i forgot about the taxman
You’ve not heard about the cost of drinks at the Olympics have you?
Living in Bristol i thankfully don’t have to
We have seen this time and time again. There is no way this is the actual RRP. But without any firm details any retailer that is looking to start taking preorders will have to charge a high price initially, which they can then lower without problems once the real price is revealed, whereas if they accidentally priced it too low then they would be either obliged to sell it at their original quote or cancel all the preorders. Simples.
I had a Swedish work colleague at my old job, and she told me that electronics in Sweden are priced far higher than they are over here. That might explain it.
ok this is really rough but the same website is showing the ASUS pad phone for the equivalent of £555ish, when in the UK its £460ish.
if the Slate came in at £550 for the 32Gb version considering it may well come with the keyboard as well and a stylus(think I heard that was possible) and Word, Excel and software on it, I don’t think that’s too bad.
Sweden has TAX on its bread at 20% and VAT there is about 25%. plus its a very small market so it will have higher cost due to demand and supply for special keyboards ect.
Don’t be so stupid. £648 quid! Expect it to be in Xbox territory. How much did apple pay you to write this muck? And as a tech website you should have more sense of the market. Apple sheep all of you.