Surface Pro 2's get discounted in the US as Surface Pro 3 ship dates slide
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 at 10:37PM 
US buyers who are on the fence about the Surface Pro 3 can now consider its predecessor, the Surface Pro 2 at a discounted price. According to ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley, some Surface Pro 2 models sold in the U.S. have been reduced by $100 each and others by $200.
The 64 GB, Core i5-based Surface Pro 2, for example, is now $799 instead of $899 and the highest end 512 GB model is now $1,599 instead of $1,799. When the original Surface and Surface Pro were discounted in the US, Canada soon followed suit.
Why would someone opt for the SP2 instead of the newer, thinner, larger and more flexible Surface Pro 3? Well, they share the same Intel Haswell processors for one thing so battery life is pretty good. The older Surfaces also have that Wacom digitizer which has 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity compared to the newer N-trig digitizer used in the Surface Pro 3 which only has 256, that's a pretty dramatic downgrade for artists.
In other Surface Pro 3 related news, it seems that while some lucky preorders have shipped, the shipping date for some models of the Surface Pro 3 has been moved from June 20 to June 30th, possibly because of constrained supplies.
Source: ZDNet
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