Inspired industrial design; nifty kickstand and keyboard options
Fun, fluid, powerful touch gestures
Delivers legit Microsoft Office support--on a tablet, no less!
Very good input options
Excellent battery life
Great display
Highly convertible design means lots of viewing options
Really good full-sized keyboard
Best-in-class hardware in a reasonably portable tablet chassis.
Optional gamepad chassis makes this the world's first handheld PC gaming machine.
Cons
Display isn't world-class
Windows RT is the hobbled alternative to Windows 8
Just 2GB of memory
Atom processor
Optional keyboard makes a flimsy stand
Windows RT has limitations
A little bulky for an 11-inch notebook/tablet
Too expensive and limited to serve as anything other than a luxury product.
Poor screen quality and battery life.
At A Glance
Surface RT is packed with productivity potential, and finds a certain measure of success in reinventing the tablet form factor. But its hardware isn't perfect, and its Windows RT operating system lacks flexibility and app support.
It's neither powerful nor sexy, but the ThinkPad 2 is a solid value.
This laptop-tablet hybrid would be a lot more tempting if it ran Windows 8.
Razer's first tablet delivers killer performance in a reasonably portable package. You can finally play PC games on a tablet, but you have to accept some compromises.
