My Surface for Windows RT Review

Gux said:
How do you guys order the £133 Surface RT? I am a student but as far as I can tell, this offer is only available to the educational institutions.

I seen a few people say they bought the surface at this discounted price, but how? Any clues?

Thanks.
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Talk to your school/uni
 
The thing with this offer, is it seems to be taken advantage of by staff who just want a cheap Surface, as opposed to getting them in Schools/Colleges/Uni's etc.

My friend has nabbed one through his placement, but are they getting them for classroom use? Nope.
 
Martini1991 said:
My friend has nabbed one through his placement, but are they getting them for classroom use? Nope.
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That depends on the school/county/country.

A lot of it will just be for personal use only.
Some states have gone surface. One of the counties in AUS are rolling out surface RT for classroom, as I belive one of the USA states is. Along with the other states adding MS to the proffered supplier along with apple.
 
Gux said:
How do you guys order the £133 Surface RT? I am a student but as far as I can tell, this offer is only available to the educational institutions.

I seen a few people say they bought the surface at this discounted price, but how? Any clues?

Thanks.
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As long as you have a valid .edu or ac.uk email, go to the link, download the order form and give it to your admin dept
 
Caged said:
The app catalogue is so barren that there would be no point putting them into a classroom.
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You what?

For a start it has office.
Secondly windows 8 has hit 100,000 apps, not bad 1/8th of the apps in under a year. Including most of the big names, the few big names out there have either confirmed they are making an app, or have alternatives or third party's.
About the only app I can hink of, off the top of my head with no alternative or third party and no confirmation is Sky Go.

For school booth khan and the biggest library software are both on it.
 
There is no doubt there are going to be less apps but calling the store barren is off the mark.

My brother is a secondary school sports teacher and reckons there are some really good ipad apps they can use that video/overlay and compare body shapes. They are going to trial ipad/android/w8 tablets to see which meets their needs the best, I know their IT department will push for the w8 tablets as they will be a lot less hassle to manage but at the end of the day it will come down to having the apps they want.
 
Macs have survived in the classroom with a number of applications you could count on one hand, often used as a very expensive appliance for a single task; editing video for example.

By comparison a Surface RT is easily justifiable at the discounted price.
 
What media player do people use on the surface? VLC is out soon but anything till then? something that will play MKV? Also does the native video player stream via DLNA?

Also Windows 8.1 worth putting on or waiting?

Whilst the surface 2 is out soon I'm thinking of just going for this one.

Cheers
 
Press Play's crap.
It takes forever to start an MKV (Does some whack processing stuff at the start) , and the playback from the files I've used was abysmal (Whereas the trials of mobile.HDplayer/Power DVD were fine for playback)

EDIT : To expand on my point, the time it takes for PressPlay to do its half arsed conversion thing, I can do a quick decent quality MP4 encode which will play perfectly fine being streamed over the network while having a smaller file size.

Or I just use my X86 Laptop with desktop software and have it running perfectly fine.
I wish Baytrail was out, I was tempted by the Asus ME400C when I was in PC World the other day.
 
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I don't want to pay, I should have to have the ability to run MKV's correctly for free.
And converting isn't really a hassle, I can make my files smaller etc.
 
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