Sinofsky Implicitly Calls The iPad Mini Expensive 

“These are fantastic machines,“ Sinofsky said Thursday, shortly after presiding over the Windows 8 launch. They’re not netbooks or bargain-basement machines. At that price, he said, you can get a computer good enough to last a student through college.

“It’s $279”, he said, “Here we are, talking about seven-inch recreational tablets for $329.”