Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Microsoft's 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage

Surface Pro

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet, due on February 9th, will have a smaller amount of storage space than expected. A company spokesperson has confirmed to The Verge that the 64GB edition of Surface Pro will have 23GB of free storage out of the box. The 128GB model will have 83GB of free storage. It appears that the Windows 8 install, built-in apps, and a recovery partition will make up the 41GB total on the base Surface Pro model.


Microsoft says users will be able to free up additional storage space by "creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition," but out of the box they'll be left with as little as 36 percent of the advertized storage available. The storage situation is similar to Microsoft's Surface RT tablet. The...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3929110/surface-pro-disk-space-windows-8

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