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December 22, 2012 8:27 PM (PST) Like Link Flag Kevico_Suave - 100% agree. Not only is the Surface RT completely unable to compete in a very competitive market segment, but it actually degrades the "Surface" brand if you ask me. Now when people think of Surface Pro, instead of thinking of a totally revolutionary tablet that can be your entertainment system, mobile and at home, runs full blown Office, excellent for work use, excellent for school use, excellent for tech junkie use, excellent for legacy apps and games use, has USB allowing for external hard drives, joysticks, game controllers, whatever.
Instead of thinking of any of that, they'll think of the flash in the pan junk Microsoft marketing pushed out that was compatible with basically nothing and made everyone that bought it hate Microsoft.
I mean, I seriously wish Microsoft would use their brain once in a while. Consult a 21 with battery such as Lenovo ThinkPad X200t Battery, Lenovo ThinkPad X201t Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T4658 Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T4651 Battery, Lenovo ThinkPad SL300 Battery, Lenovo ThinkPad SL500 Battery, Lenovo 45J7706 Battery, Lenovo 3000 Y500 Battery, Lenovo IdeaPad Y730a Battery, Lenovo FRU 42T4542 Battery, Lenovo ThinkPad X200s Battery, Lenovo 43R9255 Battery year old Marketing student or something that knows anything about strategizing, building a brand reputation, a unified market message, under promising and over delivering. I learned all of these things in one marketing class I took and Microsoft shot all of these to pieces.
Whenever I make this argument, people think I'm bashing Surface as a whole. I'm not. So far, the Surface Pro seems like it will be a successful product and that it fills a strategic niche left wide open by all other platforms. Further, this niche will grow rapidly as the technology is about to make very significant advances very soon.
It makes much more sense for Microsoft to target this niche and release a success tablet in it, and then expand from there if need be into consumption tablets. However, there may not ever be a need for that.
Instead, Microsoft is trying to fight on all fronts with Surface, and RT is an area where they're ridiculously late to the battle, very far behind, and poorly equipped in terms of an ecosystem they can leverage (as compared to Apple or even Android).
Maybe that's a bad example, because I'd always rather have a MacBook Air or similar PC versus a tablet (even a Surface Pro) if I'm going to sit down and do real work.
The only time I'd choose a tablet to do work instead is if I needed to literally be walking or moving around while working at the same time.
I bring an iPad with me when I'm doing semi-work and moving around. Say driving around town running errands in the middle of the day, but wanting to check email, view spreadsheet reports, review PowerPoint slides, read PDF or Word attachments, make minor edits and email or ftp files, make minor PHP code changes on the server, minor editing of images, etc... And if need be, I can do pretty much anything via VNC.