Dairyxox: Personally I'd hotspot，but I know less computer savy people who need mobility and a 3G/LTE version would be very attractive for them.

Maybe the telcos would be more motivated to sell them here too

lxsw20: They look like they will be a good secondary device for the guys at work that commute a bit and refuse to take their laptops due to the weight. 

nathan:

Wade:

nathan:

Wade: In real world terms I wonder how close the 128GB version's performance will to an i3 SP3? I'm hoping it might be relatively close but with the benefits of  an atom's frugal power usage?

Will be interesting to see what the other manufacturers do with these new processors also

See my previous reply on performance.

Yes i was a bit slow in writing my post and yours and a few other posts were made :P

I'm onto my second Atom W8 tablet, they are brilliant, my current device (Stream 8) on paper should be a fail but works surprisingly well, the Surface by comparison should be a powerhouse and more than enough for the average 'mum & dad' user

Are the 128GB LTE versions likely to be ranged in NZ? 

no LTE for NZ at this stage.  I need to get some minimum order quantities to get that model in.  with the USB port you can use a modem, or WiFi tether to smartphone etc, or parallel import or buy another Windows product from an OEM that sells LTE here.

InnocentDingo: Curious how the performance will be for games....will much of my steam library run on a Surface 3 or would I still need a Surface Pro 3?

nathan:

InnocentDingo: Curious how the performance will be for games....will much of my steam library run on a Surface 3 or would I still need a Surface Pro 3?

depends what games.  I'd probably go for the core i processor myself

Surface 3 graphics is 1.5x the perf of iPad Air 2, and 1.05x compute performance

and the i5 Surface Pro 3 is 1.9x graphics, and upto 3.6x compute performance