Samsung ATIV Smart PCs in South Africa

[rpm]

Samsung ATIV Smart PCs in SA

Samsung showed off its new range of ATIV Smart PCs at an event in Sandton

[McCrazieGoalz]

Great.

However, I went to a Samsung store recently and was told that they will have the Ativ Smart PC by end-November.

Expected price is R14,999.

I find this hard to believe and extremely hard to stomach given the fact that the Ativ tab is only R6,695 via Standard Bank.

[CyCliC]

Woah! I had my heart set on a Pro, but 18k?! I'll have to do some serious soul searching.

[Centronix]

did I read right? 18k? wtf?

[CyCliC]

did I read right? 18k? wtf?

Its crazy. I understand its one device, but at that price you may as well get one of them new Win8 touch laptops and a Note 10.1 tab.

[XecutioneR]

Been watching these for a while now only to be hit with disappoinment. US pricing is $750 for the atom base model with the keyboard dock. As usual, pricing here is insanely inflated.

http://pocketnow.com/2012/10/16/sams...tablet-pricing

[McCrazieGoalz]

Well, if Samsung are going to play like that then we won't be friends.

Will wait for other OEMs to release their hybrid devices. Hope this is as high as the price bar goes.

[Unreal]

Been watching these for a while now only to be hit with disappoinment. US pricing is $750 for the atom base model with the keyboard dock. As usual, pricing here is insanely inflated.

http://pocketnow.com/2012/10/16/sams...tablet-pricing

Does anybody know what are the import duties for PC's and Phones to South Africa. I tried to order the atom base model from Amazon

[wentworth65]

Gsmarena says that ativ tablets are wifi only and have no gsm capability

[Vegeta]

LOL R10k for an Atom PC bwahaha i'm typing this on a R1000 10" atom Netbook

I'm willing to pay R4000 for an atom tablet at most and that's pushing it. Asus has the Vivo Tab Smart 10" atom for $499 without a dock.
Hopefully they'll bring it here for that otherwise the NEXUS 10 can have my money and keep it as long as it wants.

[CyCliC]

Gsmarena says that ativ tablets are wifi only and have no gsm capability

It says "Optional" on their site. I wonder how that works.

http://www.samsung.com/global/ativ/ativ_pc.html

[XecutioneR]

LOL R10k for an Atom PC bwahaha i'm typing this on a R1000 10" atom Netbook

I'm willing to pay R4000 for an atom tablet at most and that's pushing it. Asus has the Vivo Tab Smart 10" atom for $499 without a dock.
Hopefully they'll bring it here for that otherwise the NEXUS 10 can have my money and keep it as long as it wants.

The Asus Vivo tab Smart is a windows RT tab. To compare apples with apples, Asus's windows 8 tab is $799.

When you consider this is inline with the android and apple pricing (in US pricing at least), it doesn't seem that bad. Metro apps should run as fluid as their android/apple counterparts considering they were designed for low power systems. Add the flexibility of a fully fledged windows and it seems worth the premium to have one device with all the functionality.

[Vegeta]

The Asus Vivo tab Smart is a windows RT tab. To compare apples with apples, Asus's windows 8 tab is $799.

When you consider this is inline with the android and apple pricing (in US pricing at least), it doesn't seem that bad. Metro apps should run as fluid as their android/apple counterparts considering they were designed for low power systems. Add the flexibility of a fully fledged windows and it seems worth the premium to have one device with all the functionality.

They have an Asus Vivo tab Smart RT and normal Asus Vivo Tab Smart with an Atom cpu
I was correct, I'm also correct on the price $499 and I'm comparing apples with apples
Excuse you
http://liliputing.com/2012/10/asus-i...99-and-up.html
Linkage

/Throws mic on the floor and walks off stage...

[cleask]

Insane local pricing... R 18 999.99 in SA, $ 1199.99 in USA! Is Samsung SA run by the Core Group?

[HBee]

Prices are insane. I'll wait for competition in this sector to drive prices down. Until then my laptop will do.