Microsoft’s Surface Pro, which is a full-featured Windows 8 tablet, that comes with a lot of in-built applications now is under a marketing trouble. The tablet’s Windows 8 OS consumes over 36% of the original storage space that was promised by the company.
When you get a tablet from a company, you choose it either with the connectivity option or the storage space. When you’re done with the connectivity option, you automatically zero down on the storage space, which has an effect on your budget for the tablet. But here’s something that’s creating an awareness of the ecosystem you choose. Microsoft’s Surface Pro, which comes with a 128GB and 64GB of storage space, has just 83GB and 23GB of free space left for the users to use. So, what’s happening to the rest of the storage space? Well, its gone. The Windows 8 has eaten up all the money and space from the customers.
Its not only the Operating System that’s consuming all the space, but also the per-installed applications that comes with the tablet. The new half-filled device is available for purchase from Microsoft starting this February 9th. The company has already warned its users on a note that’s been put up in the Surface Pro’s Website, which reads:
“System software uses significant storage space. Available storage is subject to change based on system software updates and apps usage.”
But there’s no further details about how much space the OS consumes on the new device. On the other hand, if you are keen in getting this device, the USB 3.0 port might be of help for you, to plugin any Hard Disk into the surface tablet. But then, one thought which comes in my mind when people say this is, Surface Pro is a tablet, isn’t it? Will a user carry a HDD with him while traveling? What about the battery life after connecting the HDD to the Surface? Getting a HDD for the Surface Pro add up to my costs right?
On the other hand, for those users who already have a Surface, this is not new. The Surface RT already gives its users just about half the entire storage space, rather than the entire promised storage space.
When Apple released the iPad with a 128GB storage option yesterday, we can surely rely on that with just 15% of the space consumed by the OS and the remaining 85% of the storage space is left for the users to use. The same applies for Android too. Can Microsoft ever come out with a way to reduce the storage space?