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I must say though, they do get a lot of bonus points for honestly laying out exactly where everything went and how much space each component takes up. On top of that, they even gave storage improvement options aren't simply giant advertisement for their cloud services. Color me impressed with MS's upfront honesty.

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Not exactly "upfront honesty" when they didn't say this before they started advertising as a "32 GB tablet" knowing full well that what consumers will think is that they get 32 GB of storage for a $500 price.

They only did this now after others have already debunked their storage claim:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/10/31/microsoft-surface-can-not...

Also shame on most tech reviewers who didn't even notice this in their reviews, or didn't want to say it.

I think you have unrealistic expectations. If you read an advertisement for a computer with a 250GB hard drive, do you really expect it all to be available space? I don't think anyone else does, so why would they think that in this case?

Not all of it, but I'd expect more than half of it to be available.

I would expect the vast majority of it to be free space.

If you bought a laptop with a 250GB hard drive, and found when you booted it that ~125GB were used by the OS, would you be okay with that? Especially when the HD storage was a prominently advertised feature?

yes, considering the prevailing (up until Surface arrived) advertisements for pads talked about space available, not total space.

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