14 DAY TRIAL // The Surface Pro 3 tablet went on sale yesterday, but some of the models that Microsoft announced on May 20 won't ship sooner than August, as the company revealed one month ago.
Panos Panay, the man in charge with the Surface division at Microsoft, said in a statement that the Intel Core i3 and Core i7 models would ship earlier, with retail stores and consumers who pre-ordered the device to get it as soon as August 1.
“Those who are interested in the Core i3 and Core i7 versions will remember that when we first announced the product we said these would be shipping ‘in August.’ Thanks to some great work by our team, I can confirm that, in this case, ‘in August’ means August 1, which is when these versions will arrive in stores and at commercial resellers in Canada and the US,” Panay said.
At the same time, the Surface boss also explained that the Surface Pro 3 would go on sale in 26 additional markets by the end of August, thus making the tablet available to even more customers.
The markets that'll get the Pro 3 are the following: Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom.
The Surface Pro 3 is delivered with a 12-inch screen, 4 GB or 8 GB of RAM, up to 512 GB of storage space and the full version of Windows 8.1 Pro, meaning that you can also run desktop apps just like on a real laptop.