I own a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard and use it daily. By comparison, tablets such as the iPad and Galaxy Note 10.1 feel complete without anything else. It’s clear Microsoft designed the Surface RT to be a convertible PC rather than a tablet with an optional keyboard. Windows 8 compensates for this flawed design by incorporating an additional Windows home button into a slide-out virtual tray activated by a bezel gesture. Moreover, when holding the Surface in this orientation, I cannot touch the Windows home button. I’m 6 feet tall and have normal size hands I cannot grasp the Surface and hit all the on-screen keys without shifting my hands. In fact, it’s slightly awkward overall.įor starters, it’s rather tough to type efficiently on the Surface RT’s on-screen keyboard when holding the tablet. Likewise, when holding it in portrait, it’s too tall to be held comfortably one-handed. When holding it properly, that is, in landscape, it’s a bit too long to be held with one hand. It’s 16×9, making it a lot wider than it is tall, so using this 10.6-inch tablet is slightly different from an iPad or Galaxy Note 10.1. While the Surface RT is a solid piece of hardware, there are a few things that makes the device a bit hard to handle. These trade-offs, real or imagined, are what really makes or breaks this device. Microsoft built a PC for the post-PC consumer and chose to power it with a limited operating system called Windows RT. But the Surface is something different from other tablets.
PC sales are stagnant while Apple is selling the iPad at an incredible pace.
It’s been said that Microsoft built the Surface to show up HP, Dell, and the rest of the personal computing establishment. The expectations and competition for the Surface are daunting.
It is, in short, the physical incarnation of Microsoft’s Windows 8. And Microsoft’s first self-branded computer. It’s not a mobile device and it’s not a tablet, it’s a PC.
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