Surface RT to get $150 price drop over the weekend

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

First, they bundled the Touch and Type Cover with every new tablet sold, then they started pummeling the iPad in various TV spots, now it looks like Microsoft is hoping that a $150 price reduction will make the Surface RT tablet more enticing to consumers.

A weekly promotional ad from Staples has the 32GB Surface RT selling at $349 sans keyboard. This is $150 discount which will likely ripple to other retailers and quite possibly in Canada as well.

Not only does this cheaper price make the Surface look like a better deal than the iPad, but also prices it aggressively against other Windows 8 tablets. Is this price drop a result of the recent restructuring news from Microsoft or a bid to help push tablet sales before releasing updated versions? Hard to tell at this point.