Went over to a mates place yesterday and his son have got a surface.
I had a play.
Hardware looks well built, keyboards are a bit flimsy mind you and I don't know how long they would last. Screen is really good, very clear.
But that is about the only good thing I can say about the device to be honest.
What is it for? i found the machine basic and you are stuck with basic metro style apps, ok he will be able to get office free, have not got it on there yet.
If you use it with the keyboard, there are no proper left and right buttons on the pad, instead you have to press the bottom left or bottom right of the pad. using the touch screen with the keyboard attached is awful as the unit is so light it falls over.
i also noticed that at times the machine would just not do anything and then after a couple of seconds decide to do what you asked it to do.
A lot of money for what it is to be honest, for that price you can get a fully fledge laptop, i can kind of understand if someone wants to take it out with them, but this lad is keeping it at home.
His reason for buying it is because he is fed up of all the crap on his laptop, with being tracked by google and others, getting fed up of viruses. Do he think that is not going to happen on the surface?
i am not one for tablets anyway, i don't see the point in them, never have and i doubt ever will, paying that amount of money for a machine that is that limited seems senseless, but it is up to people I suppose.
I had a play.
Hardware looks well built, keyboards are a bit flimsy mind you and I don't know how long they would last. Screen is really good, very clear.
But that is about the only good thing I can say about the device to be honest.
What is it for? i found the machine basic and you are stuck with basic metro style apps, ok he will be able to get office free, have not got it on there yet.
If you use it with the keyboard, there are no proper left and right buttons on the pad, instead you have to press the bottom left or bottom right of the pad. using the touch screen with the keyboard attached is awful as the unit is so light it falls over.
i also noticed that at times the machine would just not do anything and then after a couple of seconds decide to do what you asked it to do.
A lot of money for what it is to be honest, for that price you can get a fully fledge laptop, i can kind of understand if someone wants to take it out with them, but this lad is keeping it at home.
His reason for buying it is because he is fed up of all the crap on his laptop, with being tracked by google and others, getting fed up of viruses. Do he think that is not going to happen on the surface?
i am not one for tablets anyway, i don't see the point in them, never have and i doubt ever will, paying that amount of money for a machine that is that limited seems senseless, but it is up to people I suppose.




iOS and W8 have a certification process for the apps. I do not know how it works with iOS, but a Windows RT app must declare in its manifest what features of the OS it is using or the APIs fail. I found out the hard way when trying my app to access Intranet at work. So there's information that says that the app is potentially dangerous and needs more attention. There's sideloading for developers for a limited period of time and sideloading for enterprises. That removes a lot of threats. Also anybody submitting an app for certification must prove their identity, so that is another obstacle.
