Microsoft Surface

[connorpiper]

Is the Surface a good buy? I need something with a touch screen and a small, light design. I want it to be a little weird and cool looking. I was also looking at the Sony Vaio Duo 11 and the Sony Vaio Pro 11. And is the Surface RT a good idea, i mean i has good battery  life and it comes with a Version of Microsoft Office. 

 

I love the Sony Vaio, so here are some that i am looking at. Tell me what you think.

 

Duo 11

 

Duo 13

 

Pro 11

 

Pro 13

 

T series 14

 

S series 13.3

 

Z series 

[defunkt]

No.

[TheSLSAMG]

No. Explore other options.

[Jeroen1322]

Surface broke wile they showed it off.. so no

[Shrubpig]

My cousin in law has one, it's pretty cool.

[Scia]

Microsoft just made 900'000'000$ loss by just price cutting the thing that noone wants. That should give you all the information you need. ^^

[Whiskers]

Unfortunately the Surface RT is neither small nor light. It's also running a Tegra 3 chip, so is rather weak nowadays.

 

If you wish to get a tablet tied to the Windows ecosystem, you have two real options - buy a more expensive one such as the Surface Pro or wait for a newer and better version of the Surface RT.

[Ed Draper]

Check out the new Nexus 7

[Warcony]

I advise staying away from the surface/surface rt until at least the next revision.  First time around...not a good platform.

[newbie]

Unfortunately the Surface RT is neither small nor light. It's also running a Tegra 3 chip, so is rather weak nowadays.

If you wish to get a tablet tied to the Windows ecosystem, you have two real options - buy a more expensive one such as the Surface Pro or wait for a newer and better version of the Surface RT.

He'd better wait for the next Haswell Surface cause the actual Pro version has horrible battery life (we talk about 3.5 hours)

[ekka]

He'd better wait for the next Haswell Surface cause the actual Pro version has horrible battery life (we talk about 3.5 hours)

Totally agree, I have been using Windows 8 for over a year, and 8.1 makes the Surface PRO much more usable. But the battery life sucks!

Wait for the Gen 2 part.

[Giddyguy]

I have the Surface Pro and use it as my Laptop (its my first laptop). The only reason i got it was because i had a discount which made it cheap for any laptop with those specs.

 

At $900 for the Surface Pro, it is a big waste of money. There are many many better ultrabook options in the market.

Some issues with the surface i've encountered:

       -battery life: low for a laptop/tablet (i have tweaked some settings so i get about 5hrs)

       -screen scaling: it has some weird 150% scaling so apps not optimized in desktop version for it are a bit fuzzy (chrome is not optimized!!!) +there is a fix but then things get really small on the 10 inch display (which is Amazing btw! when optimized)

       -high pitched noise-the cpu gives off a noise when in low power mode

       - lack of accessories: i'm looking for a case/sleeve but there are no good but cheap options.

 

As for the RT version, there are very few good and useful apps in the Win8 store and since you cannot install outside apps, it is very limited.

 

I would suggest skipping this gen of products and wait until the price is lowered for upcoming models.

[connorpiper]

If I could get one with the touch keyboard. ( Which means it had Microsoft Office ) for $250 (or so) on E-Ebay (New) would that make it worth it. I mean i payed that for my Galxey Tab 2 and it was good-ish. 

[connorpiper]

Well i needed something cheap thin, good looking, and portable.

I have a 15.5" Sony Vaio E series but it is sooo heavy and fat.

 

In the end i got a Samsung Chromebook, its nice for what it does and at $250 the build quality is awesome! It really looks like a MacBook Air when its open, i keep confusing my friend that i'm using his Air.

 

Thanks guys! If you want to know anything about the Chromebook, ask me! Which one should you buy? Ask me!