My Surface for Windows RT Review

theheyes said:
I think it will be a nice machine but it feels a bit 'top heavy' to me, almost too powerful for its own good.

I don't suppose there's much else you can do with today's technology. In a few years time when the atom gets beefier and/or the core draws less power I think the x86 Surface will be a no brainer for those who want a laptop replacement.
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Yeah might be too powerful for its own good, maybe the Pro2 will fit more in line with peoples expectations, where the RT sits and where the Pro will sit there could sit an Atom based system, maybe not this gen Atom but the next?!
(Granted I've not used an Atom since a crappy dual core 1.6ghz thing I had with only 2Gb ram, even with an SSD in it it was dire (Samsung N220, first Samsung, firstbad Samsung device))
 
Not using my netbook at all now, really liking my surface. The battery life is fantastic on it. Still hoping winamp will make an app for it
 
Yeah, the video side is pretty much sorted now with mobile.HD Media Player, just needs some GUI tweaks

I do wish the Windows Store had a changelog option, where you could see what's changed in each update to your apps. I'm just blindly updating everything and not realising when there's new features added that could be useful to me.
 
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It does, but no one uses it, they all just put update/fixes. All though it does require you to search for the app and then click details. But it is pointless ATM.
It does need changing and displaying in the update screen.
 
bledd. said:
Yeah, the video side is pretty much sorted now with mobile.HD Media Player, just needs some GUI tweaks

I do wish the Windows Store had a changelog option, where you could see what's changed in each update to your apps. I'm just blindly updating everything and not realising when there's new features added that could be useful to me.
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Im a bit miffed at Mobile.hd for not playing music in the background if your doing other things, makes it a bit useless for me TBH.

Also, just on the Pro, but thats a nice piece of design to sort the venting issue I thought.
Im a bit of a nerd for clever engineering/ design.

Also, I think im actually enjoying my RT more and more as they days pass with it!.
 
bledd. said:
Yeah, the video side is pretty much sorted now with mobile.HD Media Player, just needs some GUI tweaks

I do wish the Windows Store had a changelog option, where you could see what's changed in each update to your apps. I'm just blindly updating everything and not realising when there's new features added that could be useful to me.
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It does, click on details on the app page and they are under "release notes".

Obviously it's up to the developer to update it.
 
Interesting that it has been Jail Broken now, will be interesting to see what apps get ported over now.
 
Ugh oh.. I went into JL today.. That's always a fail.

I had my first go on surface. OK.. Now I see the appeal of windows 8. It was amazing. (tbh some of the new laptops were beautiful in their brushed metal)

I'msseriously seriously tempted. Just don't know if Ishould give up on aandroid

Tempted by pro btw not the RT
 
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Reading about with the comments on Samsung not making RT tablets for the US market, its seems theirs some real vitriol hate towards RT, loads of people saying how useless it is, and how the branding and the fact people cant understand the difference between RT and normal Windows. Their seems to be a huge annoyance act the fact that their is a desktop. I personally love having an explorer, files etc I can interact with the hardware I plugin to the usb like a regular way, I don't care I cannot install any more legacy software to the desktop.

Am I alone in thinking like this, or does this hate just come from lots of morons that don't "get it".
 
People who think its unreasonable to have to drop into the classic desktop UI to perform certain functions on a device designed to be used as a tablet are entirely justified to consider this a result of Microsoft's laziness and inability to control the Office team. There's nothing to 'get', the desktop mode shouldn't exist on RT.
 
Caged said:
There's nothing to 'get', the desktop mode shouldn't exist on RT.
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I disagree, the desktop does have a place on Surface RT. For me having the desktop is an advantage, but only if you are using a touch or type cover. I agree its not that great if just purely using touch.

I was doing some software installation work on servers for a customer. So I was using the desktop version of remote desktop for the actual install work and Office for documentation. The fact that I could use the device as laptop replacement with the familiar Windows desktop I think is fantastic.
 
I hope the desktop stays around indefinitely but that doesn't mean there isn't scope for porting across more stuff to the Metro UI. You still have to dip into the desktop for a few things which you shouldn't have to, but it's not as big a deal as some people make out.

If you take office out of the equation it's very rare you ever actually *need* to go to the desktop, but it's there for things like file management etc.

And yes, we really do need to see a Metro style Office.
 
I bet most of them have alternatives.

8-zip for example, rather than 7-zip
Notepad RT
Notepad RT is made specifically for Windows 8 and Windows RT with rich support for text manipulation and syntax highlighting
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You are probably right thinking about it.

However some things like a torrent client might not get approved in the store?
 
I don't see why, nothing illegal about a torrent client.

Also they don't even restrict TV streaming services which offer multiple regions, or haven't yet.
 
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