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I've had a Surface RT for a few months now and the experience has been disappointing. The tablet feels slower and much less polished than the three year old, cheaper, Windows Phone 7 device I have lying around.

Maybe Windows 8 works great on the Pro, but I feel like Microsoft did a bait and switch by promoting RT like they did.

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Agree with this. Surface RT is painful. Especially office.

I'm quite happy with my Surface RT. I use it every day, mostly for browsing and watching video. I agree with the article that Metro-IE10 is very very good on the Surface in tablet mode. Good apps are coming slowly.

But Word, Excel and even PowerPoint are too much for it. Only good for reading. OneNote is very usable on Surface RT though, I do use that to take notes during meetings.

The Windows Mail app also sucks, and on RT you cant install Outlook.

I haven't done any killer spreadsheets as I can't have my plugins working.

But I've not found RT office to be unusably slow.

For me it lives up to its purpose of being a compaingion device.

The problems I have are basically the Mail app is uselessly bad and the Photos app sometimes grinds to a complete halt.

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