Microsoft Surface RT 32GB (Renewed)

Microsoft Surface RT is an elegant, sturdy, and highly versatile piece of equipment. From day one, I was impressed with its quality and design. The touch screen is very responsive, the screen size (10.6") is perfect for its functions, it has exceptional speed when using programs or surfing the web, and with 2 GB of RAM, one is capable of running multiple things at the same time without having your experience hindered. Essentially, The Surface is very much like a tablet version of a PC. It comes pre-loaded with some very useful programs such as Skype and Microsoft Office 2013. However, this also means one has to use the Windows app store, which provides a limited selection of apps compared to other operating systems. If the prospective buyer is not looking for a tablet that places the power of a PC in the palm of ones hand, then the Surface might not be the best choice. Overall, I give the Microsoft Surface RT 5 stars because it is everything that I want in a tablet, especially in being a college student. It is much simpler to take it to class compared to bringing a laptop each day.

I have no idea if this product is any good or not. This is my first tablet so I'm not the most sophisticated of users, although I've had desktops and laptops for decades both at work and at home. Instructions are minimal--just one half page of tips that are entirely inadequate for changing the date and time and, more critically, activating the operating system. I flubbed the process, and now, it seems, I cannot have another try at activating the system. My tablet is useless, at least as things stand. My first attempts at getting in touch with the seller make it obvious that is not going to be an easy process.

I bought this for just $200, a steal of a buy for a product that has extreme ease of access and functionality. With the keyboard, this functions better than my now 1.5-year-old laptop computer for classroom environment. The Good: Very fast start up, fast application launch times, great streaming from video apps, lightweight, MS Office is just as good as on a PC. Extremely easy to take notes in class and I can now take just this single The Bad: There are very few apps compared to ANY other system like Android or Apple products. I found myself looking for close to a dozen apps which just don't exist on here. Some of the apps are pretty jacked up, as well, so if you are a person who is very fond of apps, keep looking. IMPORTANT: If you don't like Windows 8, you will HATE this. I love Windows 8 and find it much easier to access anything on it than on any other OS, so I am very happy with my Surface. I recommend buying refurbished, as Amazon guarantees functionality and it'll save you a lot of money. Same goes for the necessary keyboard.

Well this one is difficult to rate. On the one hand, it works very nicely and the price is right compared to the full Surface Computers. They are just overpriced. On the other hand , the printer drivers are non existent for older equipment. I was not able to ever get my Dell 1320C laser printer to work. We did have an Epson that worked. I originally bought it for my wife as a tablet and a terminal for remote desktop and for those purposes it works like a charm. It comes loaded with a full Microsoft Office Suite. She can log on to her other machine from anywhere in the house and have all her files available and still use it as a tablet. Get the tactile keyboard instead of the touch keyboard. Just a few dollars more. The other thing I really wanted to do was be able to remote from a distant location but my internet carrier wanted an arm and a leg to give me a static IP address. You need a static IP address to be able to remote back to your machine from outside the home. If you can get a static IP address, it's a wonderful little machine. That said, it performs well, fairly speedy, does pretty much what I expected and didn't cost too much.

lMy surface came with nothing. Excuse me, it came with the wrong charger also. No instructions. Just a bubble wrapped device that won’t work. DONT BUY IT

As far as I can tell, the unit works fine. Guess I just haven't figured out how to efficiently use it as I don't seem to have the same success with it as I have with my other computers, Ipads, tablets, and phones. It arrived timely and in excellent packing protection. I'll probably get the hang of it. I would order again with confidence from this seller.

A productivity monster. If your priority is doing mostly work, non x86 based software, then there is nothing better than this device. You can customize it like it was a regular Windows computer. It also has great battery life. I get about 8-10 hours working on Office documents, browsing and even watching movies. If you must work on x86 software, you can remote desktop on x86 machines. Android and Ipads obviously don't run such software as well. No problems with security either. Malware and viruses for x86 will not affect these machines. You get full blown office with the purchase of this unit. It's a bit cheaper than a cheap full Windows laptop, but those computers will not yield you 8-10 hour battery life and they're also quite bulky. The USB port on this device is heaven sent. You don't need dongles and just about every device on a regular Windows machine will work on this. You plug a big monitor on this unit's hdmi out and add a keyboard and mouse and you have an awesome workstation. Plug it in your home tv and you have a media center. The only thing this unit can't do is play Candy Crush or make you popular in coffee houses making people thinking you're writing a movie script. This tablet is for grown ups while the others are just toys.