The First Microsoft Surface was WEIRD
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- The Microsoft Surface RT launched in 2012 with Windows 8 RT with almost no support for third party apps but it's hard to argue it wasn't far ahead of it's time thanks to it's ARM based Nvidia Tegra processor. Probably a little TOO ahead for its' own good...
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seeing "11y ago" after you said "2012" made my heart sink
My kids birthday is coming up, she was born in 2012. Seeing how big she's gotten tells me how old I've gotten
@@guadalupe8589i was born in 2008 and i will be 16 later this year
I’m class of 2016 I’m getting old😢
@@YRCYTSorry BUT YOUR 6????? MY YT ACCOUNT IS OLDER THAN YOU
@@lebanh3304 dumbass I graduated in 2016
I wouldn't mind a Windows 8 like interface for gaming handhelds
God no
no we got it killed off for good reason it sucked
Absolutely yes
Windows 8 style user interface would be very suitable for the touchscreen and controller based device because of how simplistic the UI design was, not to mention the large, meaty buttons make it easier to press with touchscreen.
Heck, even the Start Screen on Windows 8 itself is already similar to the menu screen of the most modern game console and smart TV nowadays, so it could be as well be implemented as a built in game launcher baked into Windows 11 (If Microsoft decided to go with that idea for the Windows based handheld gaming PC in the future)
I kinda liked the interface even on my daily driver which I'm still kinda forced to use today with 8.1, the idea of just typing the program name is very helpful
I reckon windows 12 will have a dedicated game mode in it. With how committed windows is to gaming currently with its massive investments
Imagine if Microoft went full throttle with an ARM translation layer back then.... we would be in a very different situation right now.
theyre not in full throttle but breaking down it even at surface pro x that yearss later
box86 project by one man had much better result than a team of microsoft do you believe it
first due to wintel, next is qcom. they wont hurt their pockets. you have to wait qualcomm to make a powerful chip compare to apple
This didn't age well 😂
Austin, that's the 2nd generation Surface RT. The first generation Surface RT only came in black and used a different keyboard.
Yup 1st gen was black on the back
Thank you. I was getting triggered by his false claims.
Yeah and it was absolute horseshit. Maybe he should've said that this the first useable MS Surface.
@@Cyba_IT the world was not ready for an arm Windows tablet, in my opinion it still isn’t ready.
@@techtogether508 totally agree man
I’d still take that over litterally any Chromebook ever made
That windows 8 interface looks like it would be great in handheld devices or heck anything with touch devices
This is a controversial take… But I actually enjoyed Win 8 and 8.1. And even Windows Phone 8, had a Nokia Lumia 520. Really enjoyed that phone as well. A shame devs didn’t take to it.
Honestly Windows 8 could’ve avoided the controversy if they just added an option for a start menu from the beginning.
I generally don’t use start much anyway so it didn’t really bother me and I thought the start screen looked cool but that was people’s main gripe with Windows 8. I personally did really like this OS tho. I think it’s a real shame Windows 11 killed off live tiles and arguably forced even more tablet stuff onto desktop users with its oversized UI elements everywhere.
Yeah. Windows phone was great but there were no apps, even the RUclips apps were from third parties and not made by Google. And I guess it was just too different for most people. It was nice while it lasted.
that was the point, i loved my windows 8 laptop with it's touch screen
I remember going to the Microsoft store and buying one release day for 500$ it was so cool for watching Netflix n playing lite games but it was held back by the arm chip
I had a rt when it came out and i loved it it was so convenient
God this makes me feel old for how long I've watched tech RUclips
I was working at Best Buy back then selling tablets and computers. I took an e-learning and was one of a few hundred people to win one in a raffle.
The folio kb was trash and the lack of apps sucked for a college kid who wanted to play games but it was a really awesome form factor device for bringing in and out of class for taking notes and doing school work on. Definitely had a very solid little thing.
I was in the squad back then. Attended a MS event and got a free Surface RT plus keyboard. I still have it but honestly I've rarely used it over the years, even right after getting it. I feel ARM limited it.
It’s even weirder, that keyboard I believe is a pro keyboard, the one that came with the RT was a big felt touch surface with no buttons, even the keyboard was just touch sensitive felt and it was AWFUL. Also surprised that one doesn’t have all of the paint flaking off like they seem to do.
I remember the launch. Doesn't even seem that far back! ... 11yrs ...
I had the first Surface RT and it’s still one of my favorite devices. I knew exactly what I bought it for and it served that purpose very well for three years. I was sad when Microsoft ditched the Nvidia Tegra processor for an Intel Atom and gave up on Windows RT.
I feel like most people just didn’t understand the RT, which led to its eventual downfall.
I had the second Gen RT and liked it as a home/light work productivity device.
"the Phone you're watching this right now on"
He knows too much....but then again I could just watch this on a 2009 Dell AIO lol
Finally someone who understands that the original Surfaces RT and 2 were ahead of their time
I've still got one. I fired it up the other day but it needed a windows repair which I've done loads of times on windows machines but this needs Windows RT to get going and apparently even if I got it going there's hardly anything that will run now on 32bit with an ARM processor. I've seen people put win10 on them but then the Surface still won't let you do much...even browsing the net is slower than dial-up. I was going to put it in my kitchen for recipes and link it to my bluetooth speaker to play music but I reckon that would be too much excitement for this. It is a nice design but too small for a dinner tray so I've put it back with my obsolete tech that I keep "just in case"
I still have mine. I don’t think it works. But I got it still.
I still use my surface pro 2, its not my main rig but its useful for taking pdfs on the go or notetaking
this is my dream phone thats cool
I remember when I was a kid I wanted one.
My middle school had these for a year before the Chromebook explosion long ago
i wanted one of these so bad back in the day
On August 15 2012
I haven't seen you on Facebook for months I forgot your name so I couldnt find you on here I typed in ultimate switch and I found you lolz something must be up with the algorithm
I still have it in one piece ❤
I used to have that but my dad broke it so he then bought me a surface pro 3.
I had one and it’s awesome
I still have one
I showed a guy I know from Zing! A gameboy (original) and we reminisced about tech that was see through from our childhoods. Then a girl asked to see the gameboy and said “my mom and dad had one of these lemme take a pic and send it to them”… that hurt.. I had one when I was a kid.. and the Teal Gameboy Color was my favourite..
And now with the Snapdragon X Elite, ARM surfaces are back
I had / have one of these, it bricked itself and now I use it as a desk weight
Had an original surface myself, and i absolutely loved it! I think i was one of the only people who actually liked Windows 8😂
I'm in the same boat. But I think it's because it was the OS of my first laptop
It still looks nice except the keyboard does look outdated.
Sometimes Austin stares through the camera lens and at me directly like he wants to wear my skin.
I remember the times when this used to be my biggest dream.
im watching this on a x64 processor, a pc so people forget that u can watch shorts on a pc or laptop
I wouldn’t really call Microsoft ahead of their time for using an ARM processor. At the time there were tons of ARM netbooks around, and it was really just for cost/power savings. Also, there was an x86 surface that came out shortly after.
How the times changed. I remember the Surface RT back then getting all the hate.
Then they got scared of arm and never touched it again lol
nah, Windows 10 has a ARM64 version since 2018 or so (that is even before Apple switched to ARM!)
The main problem are the cpu are Arm32 bit, imagine if it arm 64-bit, maybe some developer will make a patch for this device to run windows 11
Nah, its almost impossible to do. Also you can get a modern one with qualcomm SoC which is much better
i actually had a LG phone with the same cpu omg
I actually loved this thing when it first came out then it started dulling
Still own one... It's still a great typewriter 😂
Can't you jailbreak other apps on it?
yeah but only apps compiled for ARM32
you can also install a special insider preview Windows 10 ARM32
As much as i dont understand like AT ALL about software or hardware.. what is actually ARM architecture???? Like seriously.. why it wont run any windows app ????
Windows apps are based on x86 so it won't run on arm based devices
I wanted one so bad
i've got mine dropped on floor and died
I thought the first one was a table
Wait isn't the surface rt black? I think you have a surface 2
I think it's more like today's Surface is a lot like yesterday's Surface.
Can you install windows 11 arm on it now?
Wasn’t the first Microsoft Surface a smart table for restaurants?
yeah, but it was later renamed PixelSense to distinguish it from the tablet
It’s not the first surface. The Windows 8 Build conference tablet aka Windows 8 Tablet Devkit. It was co developed by Samsung amd had more features than the final Surface line.
This isn't the first surface. The first surface was a giant table sized tablet.
you know that one too?
@@pankoza yeah. I remember seeing the keynote for it vaguely with ballmer being the CEO then
this is not first gen this is second gen. I had the first gen before, gunmetal black with capacitive keyboard
Surface Go 3 with even worse performance:
Surface got that Nintendo Switch CPU 💀
Windows 10 saved Surface
I've been using my Surface RT as a glorified mouse pad.
That's a Surface 2 RT lol
Nope
@@sushiacidIt says "Tegra 4" right there. It's the Surface 2
@@jja2000 ok
Why does it have a touch screen it’s a laptop
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The thick border looks terrible.
And what's your point
"You can only see the value of this thing after 11 yrs. ago". I saw every Tech RUclipsr talking shit about this using Arm base CPU yet in 2023 all those companies who are really lacking behind innovation (ahem ahem APPLE) are just starting to realize what can ARM chips can do. One of the reasons why I don't trust tech RUclipsrs and just buy it to see to myself what it can do rather than to listen from these tech channel then after more than a year regrets for not supporting the product.
Um thats a Surface 2, Original one was black...
i own one of these.
Austin got the bot rizz??😂
More vids!
Put Android on it
The RT wasn't first. I have a Surface Pro 1 on my kitchen counter. It came out before the RT.
No. The Surface RT came out like in October 2012 and the Surface Pro came out in December 2012.
Laptop and TechImma1st
I have one lol
It wasn't ahead of anything, it just sucked
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Boah… the videos are difficult to watch. I like Evan’s and the content is nice… but the over the top talking… exhausting.
It was a piece of crap
indeed
it is way better jailbroken tho or upgraded to that one Windows 10 build for ARM32