How much time? I just bought a surface RT, I honestly thought I would hate it, cave and go buy an iPad for my tablet needs, but I'm starting love and love it more and more.
The point is its a compromised as a laptop and tablet. .
It doesn't make any compromises.
I thought you were using your giant laptop in the field?
I do, but when the work day is over, and I'm in some random city, and the work is done, I don't feel like lugging around a 13 pound laptop, so the surface, has the same WIndows like Feel that I know and love. And its tiny, so I can use it for my personal use.
Hell, I already bought yet another EU power adapter kit, and one for asia to, so my laptop and surface will work no matter where I go.
you don't need a laptop just use an iPad which is a better tablet,
That is an opinion,. I've used iPads before, and as I said my GF has an iPad 3, and its a nice machine. But for me, the surface works better as a light laptop, and as a tablet, it has alreadyd been proving to work very well.
When the iPad comes with a badass keyboard/kickstand/OS that can multi task, I'll be interested.
i can believe that folks will find scenarios where having a mediocre laptop and tablet is preferable to having to carry around two devices.
The surface RT IS a medicore laptop when you want it to be, and its ALSO a tablet when you want it to be, thats the idea.
Of course I realize. How can anyone see it and not realize its detachable. Its practically the only thing Microsoft talked about during the kickoff and in their ads. They almost never mention touch but they love their keyboard. Can't forget that magical click it makes. Worth the price right there.
Good.
Yes, its a GOOD feature, its a very very very well done feature. The kickstand as well, super well done. Keyboard and kickstands are done better than any iPad case you can get.
But without the keyboard, the Windows (non-metro) mode is practically unusable because all the touch areas are so tiny.
No ****.
Thats why we have Metro, thats the entire idea behind the new windows, you can have your classic desktop when your mouse and type cover are plugged in, and get real work done.
OR, when you want to relax and consume content, snap off the keyboard, unplug the mouse ( or not if your using the trackpad which is VERY good btw ). Lay down on your bed or couch, and consume away.
I've already used it for that, and for what is is, a hybrid? it the best out atm.
Apparently not very educated yourself if you don't understand that iOS does multitask. The particular scenario you mention may be an issue, but don't misrepresent the entire operating system.
It is IMPOSSIBLE on iOS to have more than one program on the screen at the same time, hence, no multi tasking.
Microsoft is the king of 20 year old Windows software that they forced on consumers by strong arming PC vendors. They got into trouble as a monopoly for it
That hasn't gone on for over a decade, and if Macs are so much better, why does the Windows PC still exist? Windows is a good OS. And that " strong arming " ended well over a decade ago.
I worked for IBM for many years and had to constantly deal with systems being taken over to apply security patches. Security guidelines there force everyone run to a very stringent antivirus. Both at work and at home I have run into viruses. Windows inherent insecurity from Active-X made it hard to deal with. I'm sure they've improved security in Vista/7.
I still work for Intercourse Blue Man, and we don't have alot of issues with anything XP and up, yes, Active X is a nesscary evil, but they cleaned up their act in that aspect, we currently don't run anything outside of the Microsoft anti virus system, at least in my department ( I work in simulations for a few departments, I've seen deep gene in person, sex
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Please. Not sounding very credible. Comparing Apple's "antivirus" which is a tiny program that does practically nothing to a Symantec antivirus scan is not even close.
Sure it is, and you know it is, it works in very much the same way Windows Antivirus does, it just doesn't have as much to do because of, theres not alot of macs in existence.
Virus's really aren't an issue in Windows anymore, at least for my deparmtne, ( we use a combination of Windows 7 Pro, and our in house UNIX OS )
