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Surface Pro 3will Firsttime buyers corporate users Color: Silver help Microsoft gain traction squeezed out Processor: Fourth for its tablets among corpo generation Intel Core i3, i5 rations. The Surface Pro 3may not In IDC’s focus groups, he prices in parts of the country dramatically move the nee or i7 said, there's growing interest to levels that squeeze out dle for Microsoft’s tablet Battery: Up to nine hours of in 2in1 devices and the many firsttime and middle market share —but it should Web browsing Surface in particular. class buyers. help, Mainelli said. “This product certainly is The problem is most pro Price: Starts at $799 “I was very impressed by even more desirable than nounced among starter MARK LENNIHAN /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the device,” he said. “It has Accessories: Surface Pro Surface Pro 2,” Mainelli said. homes with prices averaging Microsoft’s Panos Panay shows off Surface Pro 3: “I am the potential to really jump Type Cover (keyboard) “IT buyers that have tradi around $100,000, 30.2 per start the 2in1 category.” sure that this is the tablet that can replace the laptop.” $129.99 tionally supported Win cent of whose owners are The launch of alarger Source: Microsoft dows, Ithink, will look at burdened by underwater device rather than aSurface about,” he said. aspect ratio and athickness this product as aviable op mortgages, sometimes called Mini —atleast for now — Panos Panay, aMicrosoft of 9.1 millimeters, and tion.” negative equity. may also reflect new CEO vice president in charge of weighs 800 grams (1.76 vice. Michael Silver, an analyst “The unfortunate reality is Satya Nadella’s strategy of Surface computing, declined pounds) The included stylus, called with research firm Gartner, that housing markets look to focusing on what Microsoft to say whether the company The Surface Pro 2, in com the Surface Pen, opens Mi regards the Surface Pro 3as be swimming with underwa can uniquely do. That would is working on aSurface mini, parison, has a10.6inch crosoft’s OneNote program “a really competitive entry,” ter borrowers for years to be producing hardware that saying just that it’s working screen with a16:9 aspect with aclick of the pen, and especially for corporate come,” said Stan Humphries, emphasizes productivity and on awide variety of prod ratio and athickness of 13.5 stores what’s been written to users. chief economist at Zillow. that connects to the compa ucts. millimeters, and weighs 900 OneDrive with one click as “It's high end,” he said. The share of mortgage ny’s growing array of cloud It was Panay who gave grams (1.98 pounds). well. “It's not clear that [Surface] holders with negative equity services. most of the morning’s pre Panay also emphasized Anew docking station will can capture the hip factor is projected to drop to Nadella started Tuesday’s sentation, introducing the that the Surface Pro 3is also be available. from Apple yet.” 17 percent at the start of next event with a specifics of Surface Pro 3, lighter than the 13inch The Surface Pro 3will run Silver said it will take year, according to Zillow. brief ap which Microsoft executives MacBook Air, which weighs on Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 handson time to see if the Several major U.S. metro pearance on repeatedly emphasized was almost 3pounds. processors. Surface Pro 3can be atrue areas are stuck with residents stage, say alaptop replacement. In addition, the new hinge “I am sure that this is the laptop replacement. who have high rates of nega ing Micro Panay said he and his allows the Surface Pro 3 tablet that can replace the “Any time you look at a tive equity. Circ - NIE Main/A007/METRO NIE Jackson School 5.21 soft is not team worked on making the kickstand to move from 22 laptop,” Panay said. machine that tries to do In Chicago, nearly 45 per interested in device larger and lighter degrees to 150 degrees. The devices, which start at more than one thing, there cent are underwater or effec building than its predecessor; im The new Surface Pro Type $799 for the i3 version, can are tradeoffs,” he said. tively underwater. The rate is hardware proved its “lapability” —the Cover (sold separately) has a be preordered starting But the Surface Pro 3, 53.1 percent in Atlanta, 50.6 purely for Microsoft ability to work on the device larger trackpad with re Wednesday. The i5 version Silver said, “probably comes percent in Las Vegas, 46.6 hardware’s CEO Satya while it’s on one’s lap — duced friction and smoother will be in retail stores in the closest so far in terms of percent in Charlotte, 44 sake. Nadella through improvements in scrolling, as well as amag U.S. and Canada on June 20. minimizing tradeoffs. ... percent in St. Louis and 43.2 Rather, the kickstand hinge and netic latch that allows the The other configurations You’re seeing some innova percent in Tampa. the company’s focus on keyboard latch; improved user to shorten the distance will be available in August. tion from Microsoft, maybe Sales of existing homes hardware starts with an the cover’s trackpad; and between the bottom of the While not limiting the going adifferent way from have slowed after strong “obsession of empowering created astylus pen to write tablet and the top of the Surface Pro 3tobusinesses, the rest of the industry.” growth in the first half of every individual to do more on the screen. keyboard, providing astron Microsoft clearly is targeting Janet I. Tu: 2064642272 or 2013. and be more. That is what The Surface Pro 3has a ger, more stable connection them. [email protected]. On Twitter Americans bought homes we at Microsoft are all 12inch screen with a3:2 between keyboard and de Microsoft said Tuesday @janettu. at aseasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.59 million in March, the lowest level since July 2012, according to the The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and Newspapers In Education present Week 4 ExploringAsia: Asian Cities —Growthand Change
Ad Number: Insertion Number: Size: Color Type: MIGRATION AND denied access to urban services and other opportunities because the great majority URBANIZATION IN CHINA of them are not allowed to change their By Dr.Kam Wing Chan hukou from rural to urban. Department of Geography,University of Washington
Editor’snote: This article is the fourh of five featuring pieces Rural migrants work and live in the city but by Dr.Anand Yang, Dr.Anu Taranth, Dr.H.Hazel Hahn are not part of the urban class—not now and Dr.Nathaniel Trumbull. and not in the future, no matter how many years and how hard they have worked in In the last three decades, China has undergone the city.Together with their families, they rapid and massive urbanization. Today,more than form amammoth “floating population,” 700 million people live in cities and towns, more in the range of about 220 million and still than triple the nearly 200 million in 1980 (see growing. The fact that they are purposely graph.) While this epic rural-urban shift has many Migrant Workers in Guangdong held down as amassive permanent of the trappings of urbanization, as observed underclass is precisely why China has ahuge elsewhere in the world, the Chinese case is much and almost inexhaustible pool of super- more complex. exploitable labor.Perhaps that explains why China is the world’slargest—and most “competitive”— Underlying China’sglittering modern urban facade manufacturing powerhouse! and prosperity is one crucial dynamic that is unique in modern times and yet largely ignored in the China’srapid urban population growth, as popular literature: its institutionalized two-tier, represented by the thin line in the accompanying rural-urban divide. This outcome of Mao-era social graph, is familiar to many.But that single-line engineering continues to this day.This division not 05/21/2014 depiction leaves out an important point: the only manifests itself in economic and social terms, majority of migrants to the city do not have urban as in many Third World countries in the throes of rights. Alarmingly,the gap between the total urban transition, but also in tightly enforced clear population living in cities and those who possess legal terms, mainly through asystem of hereditary urban rights (the thick line) has widened as the residency rights called the hukou,orhousehold country moves forward. If this trend continues, the registration. colossal underclass will definitely spell trouble for the country in the years to come. The hukou system differentiates the population into two classes: an urban class whose members The media has often portrayed rapid urbanization have access to basic social welfare programs and in China as leading to alarger middle class full citizenship, and an underclass of peasants and greater consumption rates. That narrative, with neither of these privileges. In Mao’sera, however,seems problematic given China’scurrent peasants were forbidden to go into the cities and configuration of economic and legal inequities. confined to tilling the soil to grow food for urban There are many myths behind the perception and workers. When China opened up in the late 1970s, sustainability of China’srecent economic rise. peasants were allowed to enter the cities to work Urbanization remains one of the biggest. in low-paying factory and service jobs, many of which involve dirty and dangerous work. At the same time, however,peasants were and still are
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