Microsoft has just revealed the prices of its upcoming Windows 8 Surface tablet in Canada, with pre-orders now live at the Microsoft Canada online store, as pointed out by MobileSyrup. Pre-orders will ship on October 26th, the same day it hits the shelves in Microsoft stores, and are estimated to arrive by October 30th.
Below are the prices of Microsoft Surface in Canada without Black Touch Cover, which costs an extra CDN $100:
Other Touch Cover colours such as cyan or white cost $129.99 each. In addition, the Surface Type Cover costs $139.99
When compared with new iPad prices in Canada, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models are available for CDN $519, CDN $619 and CDN $719 respectively. The only difference is that Microsoft’s entry-level model lacks 32GB of storage as opposed to similar priced iPad which comes in 16GB.
So, will you pre-order the Microsoft Surface now or instead wait for Apple to announce the iPad mini on October 23rd?
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Holy expensive batman! Avoid!
I am so sick of companies adding in the “Canada tax.” Clearly our dollar is worth more than the Americans, yet we still pay 20 dollars (or more) for the same product that can be purchased in the States. Ridiculous.
That $20 is for the lovely bilingual packaging!
More french bashing pls.
If the packaging costs $20, Apple is getting ripped off!
And Microsoft apparently.
And it’s wifi only… I wouldn’t buy, not now…
In all honestly, when you look at the Surface, the first thing that comes to my mind is not tablet – it look likes a Windows RT netbook with a touchscreen. After all, all the ads show the Surface with the keyboard as a headliner feature. Still looks nice though.
well its $699 $599 $499 in the states
at current exchange thats
$688.05 $589.62 $491.18 CAD
got to love the $30 discrimination tax
Heck if i wanted there crappy tablet its cheaper to reship it up here with shipito or some other reshipper
“The only difference is that Microsoft’s entry-level model lacks 32GB of storage as opposed to similar priced iPad which comes in 16GB.” << you meant to say "has 32GB…" instead of "lacks 32GB".
wifi only??
Wait, its 100 more then iPad for 16 more gigs? and why is there a 30 dollar difference for this between the states price and only 20 dollars different with the iPad?