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Own a Surface RT 64GB
And I've tried and tried and tried but I just don't like the Touch Cover. I love the device but not the cover so when I go to buy the Surface Pro, I'll grab the Type Cover and have both...leaving the 'touch' cover on the device I plan to use the least which will actually probably turn out to be the Pro. Besides that, I love it. I bring along a little D-Link Wifi AP when I go to a client so I always have Wifi or the ability to connect to a wired only network (think configuring routers, switches, etc.) and I have my Lumia 920 with LTE Internet Sharing. It's really been surprising what I 'can' do with the device compared to what I can't. One of my co-workers called me asked me "is there mstsc in Windows RT?" and I was like "I'm not sure" but it turns out that yea, there is and there's the "Remote Desktop" app in the Store. I knew I was buying something less capable than Windows 8 but I didn't realize how little that amount would be.

The only thing that's irked me a bit is sites that don't display properly in IE10. I don't mean to start a whole 'Microsoft doesn't use standards!' debate but it does suck that if IE10 doesn't render a site properly for whatever reason, that I have to RDP to another workstation in order to access the site I'm trying to reach. I run into this on a lot of network devices. Yes, there's the CLI interfaces but some things are just easier via the GUI's (usually).

Despite that (Touch Cover and IE10), it's really a high quality and certainly very capable device. It convinced me to buy the Pro version as well because well, I like pen input and I'll keep the Surface RT around as my 2ndary (or perhaps back to primary if another browser is released for RT...for the battery life).
Posted by Skruis
28th Jan