John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin discuss the Microsoft Surface. It's a tablet! It's an ultrabook! It runs Office, Windows, and your existing x86 applications…unless it's the ARM version. And why is Microsoft making hardware, anyway? It's all very intriguing.

Links for this episode:

• Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' - Engadget
• John's Tumblr blog, also titled Hypercritical
• Microsoft Surface tablets may not match iPad battery life - Computerworld
• Microsoft VP creates perfume that smells of money - CNet
• Microsoft's Surface event video - YouTube
• Capacitive touchscreens - Wikipedia
• Surface by Microsoft
• Six Flags Great America
• Microsoft Technology Centers in Cologne
• Surface vs. iPad: Microsoft's Getting Rusty At Stealing from Apple
• PowerBook G3 - Wikipedia
• Limited-slip differential - Wikipedia
• John's Surface-like hardware musings from 2010 - Macworld
• Windows for Pen Computing - Wikipedia
• Inkwell (Macintosh) - Wikipedia

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