“Surface” Wins Oprah’s Heart

Microsoft's first tablet, Surface, has made it into the list of her favorite things by Oprah Winfrey. The talk show queen endorsed the tablet on her website.

The talk show queen wrote, "The Surface, Microsoft's first tablet, feels like a Mercedes-Benz to me, people!". She appreciated its full sized keyboard and kickstand that makes using Skype and watching movie easier. She said that the light-weight tablet was a good alternative to laptop and it was fun to use it for work and play.

Other than the "Mercedes-Benz" of Oprah, the list included the $4,999 Bose VideoWave II, a $3,000 elliptical trainer, and a set of 14 soaps from Lafco Soap priced $238. iPad was her favorite in 2010. She, then, said that she reads four newspapers a day and writes her column of O magazine using the Apple product since she loved writing on it.

The Surface uses a Nvidia Tegra 3 processor and has a beautiful ClearType 1366 x 768 resolution HD display. It's a five-point multitouch tablet with 2 GB of RAM. It also has Bluetooth 4.0, a USB 2.0 port, a microSDXC card reader, two 720p HD cameras facing front and rear and a battery life of up to 8 hours.

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