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Your comment is unhelpful to this discussion. I am sharing my real-world experience over the course of four months with the Surface RT. It runs great. It does everything I want it to do. The media reviewers complain that the RT does not run well. Who am I going to believe them or my own experience? It does take not a genius IQ to wonder why so many reviews don’t seem to reflect reality. Either the reviewer is predisposed against the product and does not wish to give it a fair review or they are being given an incentive by someone else to not give the RT a fair review. No one knocks the iPad for not running MacOS software. Why should they declare the RT a fail for not running legacy Windows software?

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I disagree. A 13-inch tablet using a Haswell processor would be about half the weight of a laptop that it replaces and would travel very nicely. Currently you carry an iPad and a laptop with you wherever you go. Such laptop replacements are the best of both worlds, at half the cost and half the weight. I think they will sell like hotcakes as people need to replace their laptops.

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Wow, I am sorry to hear that. I have been using my Surface RT for four months now and it is doing great! What kind of tweaks did you do?

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I type on the Surface on my lap all the time and find it quite easy. The Surface Pro is best understood as a laptop replacement that has a tablet form factor. I would almost say this of the RT because it has MS Office except that it does not run legacy Windows software.

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A BMW in the garage is still going to cost as much as one driven everyday. MS could not sell the RT for less without destroying their OEM relationships. So what they did was to try and add value by including more in the product by including MS Office for free. It would have helped a great deal if they had included a touch cover in the deal as well.

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As far as licensing goes, my company covers my MS Office usage on the RT. In fact, I would be surprised if that was not the normal case for most businesses these days. MS Office is nearly ubiquitous in the corporate world.

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MS Office on RT is a great value. It’s why I bought one. I have tried other office suites on Android and iPad and they just don’t measure up. RT with office is so capable it is nearly a laptop replacement. In comparison Android and iPad are just entertainment devices.

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Yep, but the iPad does not come with a free copy of MS Office. That is what sold me on it and everyone I show my RT to, especially when I open up Word and PowerPoint on it. No one, no one ever seems to mention this.

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My RT is not laggy and it has the one app I want, MS Office. Since it also has a full feature browser, I don’t need as many apps anyway. I just create tiles on start screen the link to the website I want, like Facebook, etc. After using the RT I can tell you I honestly feel those reviews were secretly paid advertising for Apple designed to spread FUD. And it worked.

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Actually, I have both. The Surface RT does just fine with the web and apps. I have not experienced the graphics glitches that others have complained about. While I don’t use it for watching movies much, it seems to do a pretty good job compared to my son’s android tablet and my wife’s iPad. I wonder if some of the reviews were before the RT had its software updated about two weeks after the release. Apparently, that made things run much smoother (I got my RT about two months later and updated the software right away so I never experienced the earlier version).

In comparison the Surface Pro is quite zippy. I have not had any issues with it. But I really do not see much speed difference between the two. Only when I put the two side by side do I notice that the Pro is much quicker on web pages.

Surprisingly, I find that I prefer the RT over the Pro. It’s lighter, thinner, and longer lasting. It has the only app I need (that no one else has) – MS Office. I love it.

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