The Surface RT is one of the few tablets with the ARM optimized version of Windows. The biggest difference has been mentioned in this review (no support. Exe software) and frankly I do not know what I have to add it. The desktop environment still exists but can only be used by the apps that Microsoft has made specially available and provided services. The most important are undoubtedly the Office package and the desktop version of Internet Explorer. The majority of the time however, you will spend in the modern Windows 8 environment with the tiles and apps that only through Microsoft's own store for sale and to install.
The modern environment is well suited for control with your fingers and although there is a fairly steep learning curve, you can after a while good feet in this modern setting. All the standard features you would expect from such a machine are just there and so it is possible to enjoy browsing, e-mail reading and writing, social media to spam and more. Besides the standard apps that standardized information like news, weather and stock in a nice way show is of course the Windows Store. The selection of apps is not enormous but what seems to grow and for the most simple things is now something to find. But your choice is always limited and new emerging popular apps you currently much rather find on iOS and Android, and it is still questionable whether Windows 8 is going to be popular enough to convince developers to do first (or fast) their apps for the Windows platform available.
The most eye-catching of the RT Windows software is perhaps that Microsoft has chosen Office 2013 RT directly tubed, and there is not an additional purchase for asking. Office runs as one of the few apps within the desktop environment and although a feast of recognition for anyone who has used Windows XP/Vista/7, it is a tablet user yet optimal. The interface is not sufficiently optimized to control via taps and swipes properly process. Precisely because Office applications is important to a keyboard to choose when purchasing the Surface RT. The covers are fine options from Microsoft and have by far the best integration with the tablet. But it is not only the keys that are so important but because of the lack of optimization of the UI should certainly benefit the track pad (mouse surfaces) that the covers are not to be underestimated.
RT Windows takes about 16GB in use on the hard disk. A "mobile" OS 16GB is huge and sharply points out, that Microsoft is not a special version optimized for ARM has developed but more that the "normal" version ported to ARM. The combination of hardware and software of this tablet is as stable as you describe, but later can read not without problems.
Microsoft Surface RT - In use
It's the little things that make the difference when it comes to tablets. Things like build quality and tricks when it automatically enable or disable the tablet if the cover is closed are things you daily observes and learns to appreciate. Especially if you have experience with hardware on points such refinement misses mark your favor. Microsoft has in terms of materials and build quality good for each other and the integration between their own keyboard options and the tablet is optimal.
But by the choices that Microsoft has made there are still some disadvantages or limitations. Microsoft is clearly on the approach that you should also be able to work on a tablet. The combination with a keyboard cover and the Office 2013 RT package that comes there are strong indications of. Although I am a fan of the combination type Surface Cover + RT is very weird with a mobile device should be limited to a desk or table. The type Cover and kickstand make namely that the use on the lap is not really possible. However, the cover is properly used to (folded) as substrate to serve the kickstand for use on couch and bed, and you therefore with the on-screen keyboard may further tapping (see video in linked article on keyboards). I'm not sure if I would describe this as a disadvantage but a strange and in some cases limiting experience is. On the other hand, forces the user the Surface RT really seen as a tablet, a tablet as we know from iOS and Android. By limiting I have at least the tablet much more 'loose' use, compared to other Windows 8 hardware which in many cases it seemed a bit pointless to do without keyboard.
Windows RT and the new interface of Windows are basically good and standard applications you want to use on a tablet are present. Yet the Tegra 3 processor is clearly not so powerful that the software can be run without delays, especially when there are more than a few apps I use regularly noticed delays. This is especially problematic when the (in my case) Cover type is used to rapidly tapping the device while the tablet effort, the input data and do appear on the screen. I'm not talking just about Word because even a simple text app as Metro Markdown am I frequently encountered.
The more limited range of apps in the Windows Store makes it difficult the Surface RT real as competing tablet for iPads and Android tablets to see. A large part of the charm of a tablet for me because the huge app offering that is often found creating many new applications to consider for your tablet. So my iPad in the course of time developed into a device where I not only games to play and browse, but on tap (Drafts), photo editing (eg Photoshop, iPhoto, and Snapseed) videos with make (Pinnacle Studio) and dozens if not hundreds of other apps to use, not only as entertainment but certainly also as a device where I can make something.
Actually, at this moment only the Office package that the Surface RT (RT and other hardware) distinguishes in the field of "work" on a tablet. As this Office version just own official version of Microsoft package, you can say that it is the most compatible version of Office on a tablet. But for both iOS and Android there are plenty of options without too much difficulty a great alternative forms, with or without purchasing a keyboard accessory. And in many cases, such a combination is more versatile and terms of your use of the keyboard (which you really can describe as a requirement for use of Office) is not confined to a desk.
The lack of apps in many cases at least in theory be met by alternatives in the form of websites / web apps use. Unfortunately, the browser on the Surface RT is not very good, and Microsoft has a lot to IE10 tweaking before it can join with the browser on iOS and Android. Minor problems in the rendering of web sites are much easier to forgive than the problems that the Surface RT often with scrolling. Especially the fact that Microsoft does not use WebKit is that there are many modern websites that do not work optimally on the Surface RT. Many large and popular websites do have the necessary adjustments to their services usable on relatively low-powered mobile devices like iPads and Android tablets but optimization for Internet Explorer is something that is very long seen as a dirty word. In a rare benchmark that I turned to my experience bars with figures showed the Surface RT browser (subway) also significantly less well than the browser on the iPad mini (scores respectively. 339 vs. 519). Using the browser in desktop mode is for me simply not recommended on a tablet such as the experience there just yet lacks optimization.
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