Microsoft surface 2.0(also known as samsung sur40)

Microsoft has spilled pricing details on its new second-gen Surface SUR40 multitouch table launched the company’s CES 2011 keynote on january 6, and slimming down the original surface into a slick 4-inch thick slab. The new SUR40 Surface 2.0 – which is manufactured by Samsung, and has a Full HD 1080p 40-inch display covered with a sheet of toughened Gorilla Glass. The sur40 has an AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor 2.9GHz paired with the AMD Radeon HD 6700M Series GPU featuring DirectX 11 runs an embedded version of Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, with a Surface 2.0 SDK due later in the year for developers to code apps for the new table. Microsoft expects the Surface SUR40 to begin shipping later in 2011, and has already signed up Red Bull, Royal Bank of Canada, Fuji Film, Dassault Aviation and Sheraton Hotels and Resorts as early adopters. The sur40 is just 4 inch thick which is much slimmer than the 1st surface. It is slimmer becose it doesn't uses cameras for touch detection. It uses another technology termed by microsoft as pixel sense. It can detect more than 50 simultaneous inputs and can detect real objects. As being slim the users have option of mounting it vertically.e manufacturer’s suggested price for
Samsung SUR40 starts at $7,600 (U.S.).
Samsung SUR40 will be available later in 2011 in
23 countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium,
Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong
Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Korea, the
Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the
United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and
the United States.