Microsoft Surface
Today the Microsoft Surface arrived, finally. They arrived in big boxes suggesting big tables, but alas they are actually pretty small. Microsoft envisages them as lounge table, as such they are very low, too low to sit comfortably on a normal chair. Being used to the Circle12 DiamondTouch, the Surface is both small and heavy. Weighing about 80kg it is difficult to move it and the actual display area is about half the size of the DiamondTouch.
We were supposed to have two normal and one developer edition but it wasn’t very clear which one was which so we picked one and carried it to our office. This turned out to quite tricky, this thing is heavy and doesn’t have any clear handles. In the end we carried it by holding the projection-surface …
Once setup we had to fiddle a bit to get the powercable connected and find the proper (two) powerswitches. Once it booted it prompted us an EULA we had to accept. However the Surface is designed to be a standalone machine completely controlled by touch but before the touch was working we had to accept the EULA, which was only accessible by touch … hm
You need to accept to start touch, and you need touch to accept