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The Best Windows Tablets [May, 2013]

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Microsoft Surface RT

Microsoft Surface RT

Microsoft’s Surface RT tablet is certainly not the most affordable tablet running Windows RT, that honor belongs to the XPS 10 with its $299 price tag. Instead, the Surface RT’s claim to fame is its impeccable design. In one swoop Microsoft managed to make the devices of its partners look ridiculous with their cheap plastic designs and position itself as a high-end builder of devices in its own right thanks to its use of magnesium and hardened glass inside the tablet.

The Surface line’s Touch and Type Covers also continue to be the most mobile friendly way Windows users can blend the functionality of a tablet and the productivity of a laptop. On the other hand, its $499 price tag and Windows RT operating don’t make do it any favors. Windows RT doesn’t allow users to install any desktop applications, and its Tegra internals make it really the only Windows machine that competes directly with the iPad. For $499 Surface RT users do get a tablet that comes with Microsoft’s Office suite of applications for free. That price doesn’t include either the Touch or Type Cover.

Price: $499  Surface RT at Microsoft Store

2 Comments

2 Comments

  1. Mary

    05/31/2013 at 3:13 pm

    Travis, you may want to recheck your facts about the Dell XPS 10, I just got out of chat with a Rep from Dell about the XPS 10. The only way you get the $299.00 price is if you buy another system. I don’t know what system(s) one has to buy for the lower price but, you cannot get the XPS 10 for $299.0O, their base price for the XPS 10 starts at $399.00, their package deal for the XPS 10 starts at $549.99!

  2. cmwilkerson

    06/07/2013 at 7:09 am

    I complained about inability to install apps to SD card the first day Samsung 3 was available! I pre-ordered a 3. Samsung told me they were unaware of it and would look into it. My carrier Sprint was ignorant.

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