今天，我有一项使命：超越营销炒作对Surface进行考察，并抑制购买这款产品的冲动。Surface是微软（Microsoft）首次直接进军个人电脑硬件市场的产品（该公司的电脑配件产品除外）。我的计划？我的计划是走进微软位于拉斯维加斯时尚秀购物中心（Fashion Show Mall）的Surface游击店（pop-up store），把自己的手放在Touch Cover上，接着在不可避免地弄脏屏幕后扼杀心中对微软这款混合型硬件产品生起的任何欲望。
Touch Cover：Surface的秘密武器
在上述假想场景中，Touch Cover将成为让我回心转意的唯一因素。我知道Surface的材质很出色，我对这款设备的技术规格及其整体价值定位也非常满意（Surface免费预装了Office 2013 Home & Student Edition，可以扩展存储空间，并配备了USB以及HDMI接口）。
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Surface包装随附的快速入门指南鼓励用户去“了解触控语言”，这对Windows系统的老用户来说，感觉可能真是那样。Charms工具栏、收起、滑动以及其他Windows 8系统手势并不存在于我的肌肉记忆当中，数十年来都不曾存在。但当我学会这些手势赋予所有应用程序一种操作上的一致性时（从屏幕右方向左滑动可以调出设置工具栏，每个应用程序都可以通过这种手势操作调出自己的设置选项），我对这种触控语言的欣赏就开始被激发出来。
双语阅读：Microsoft Surface: First Impressions and Shattered Misconceptions
译 何无鱼
iReader 作者: kingcai 时间: 2012-10-30 13:02
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Microsoft Surface With Windows RT Hands-On Impressions
How does the Surface RT hold up after a weekend of use? We put it to the test.
I originally wanted to do this entire story with the typos left in.
My first day using the Touch Cover was plagued with so many typos, I figured it would be a fun way to show off how steep the learning curve on the new Touch Cover is. But then, miraculously, after a weekend of use I stopped making so many typos.
My words per minute is still nowhere as fast as it is on a normal keyboard, and dragging and dropping is a huge pain, but I’m pleasantly surprised with what I’ve been able to accomplish on the Surface’s Touch Cover. When the Microsoft employees tell you it has a steep learning curve they mean it. But it is learnable.
That steep learning curve is present in more than just the Touch Cover though. Just take my horrific day of setup as proof. For some reason, you need to use the same Microsoft Account as your Xbox Live Gamertag is connected to upon setting up your administrator account, or else you can't access your Gamertag. As far as I can tell, once you’ve created an administrator account, there’s no way to switch the administrator account – shy of reformatting your Microsoft Surface. Which I did. Twice.
Sure, it doesn’t sound like a huge problem, but I had to reformat my Surface twice in single day just because there was no clear instructions during the setup process. Weird glitches happened throughout the process (perhaps most bizarrely, it told me it couldn't accept @outlook.com addresses, which Microsoft invented.). It was a nightmare, and there is no way people like my parents would have figured out how to fix it.
But enough about the weird, frustrating setup process. I have been consistently and simultaneously shocked by what the Surface RT can do (and at times what it cannot).
With the tap of a button, the Surface can display a full desktop, which allows you to quickly sort through your file hierarchy. This is the kind of dream people on iPads have - a computer OS-style folder format for their files and media.
This alone gave me the impression that RT really was something just a bit more than a tablet. Similarly, the hardware has a few tablet/PC-hybrid tricks up its sleeve. The USB port works flawlessly, and allowed me to quickly add a keyboard when I needed to get things done faster than the Touch Cover allowed, and worked with a mouse as soon as I plugged it in.
everything in Surface RT is designed to be done by touch
Adding a mouse is hugely valuable, as the Touch Cover’s trackpad and small buttons are a bit hard to use. But ultimately, you may not need it – everything in Surface RT is designed to be done by touch, and frequently I found myself switching between touch and Touch Cover.
I cannot emphasize the mind-boggling accomplishment this represents. If Microsoft can successfully get us to simultaneously use touch and hardware for input, they’ve created a brand new way for us to use a device, and it frequently felt like something completely different from its competition.
Still none of that matters much if you just want to use the Surface RT as a gaming device, and unfortunately our initial impressions are not favorable. On the first day of using the device, the Surface had significant slowdown playing every single game we tried. Jetpack Joyride dropped significant frame rate whenever touch input occurred and Pinball FX was rendered virtually unplayable due to a delay in input and paddle action. However, later in the weekend I was able to play Jetpack Joyride without significant stutter, so further testing is required.
Some other snap judgments: the charger is tough to fit in the device, the speakers aren’t great, and finally the Surface is super easy to use as a tablet with a folded Touch Cover behind it.
What do you think? Has this hands-on piece made you more or less excited for the Surface RT? Our review should be posting later this week, so keep checking out IGN for all things Surface RT. In the meantime, feel free to hit me with questions in the comments.
Nic is the Editor of IGN Tech. He loves technology almost as much as the SF Giants, Freelance Whales, and P.O.S.'s new album. You can follow him on Twitter @nicvargus and IGN.
