TTQ B4U Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I've been in the hunt for a new laptop or tablet for the wife who mainly surfs, does email and now being at home only an occasional need for MSOffice. THat said, I made an impulse buy of the new Asus Vivio RT with docking keyboard and will be trying it out while traveling this week. MicroCenter has them marked down to $399 including the docking keyboard which seems pretty good considering the unit was $599 and $299 when first launched and then down to say $500 by January. Windows RT and the Initial release of Office 2013 are on there too with it being upgraded to the full release at no charge in the near future. I've just powered it up and got it running and now am charging it overnight for use this week. THey offer a 15 day return so I figure with 5 days to test it out I should know if it's decent. Will be fun travling around with so many options this week. Lenovo X220 touch screen tablet laptop, and iPad 3 and now this. Thoughts on the new Asus ? Any tips ? I figure there have to be plenty of CR users that have Windows RT. Insight appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodus Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 I owned a surface rt, but in the long run I need something that could run x86 programs. However, I do believe there is a market for windows rt... once the app store grows substantially. And once they put some serious power under the hood. A tegra 3 with 2gb of ram on my surface sort of lagged. I upgraded to the atom samsung ativ 500t with an atom cpu and 2gb of ram and it was amazing with running simple programs and loading web pages. In the end, that device had docking issues, so I just traded it in for a touchscreen i5 laptop. After having so many touchscreen windows enabled devices, I can honestly say I will never get another windows device without a touchscreen. Reaching for the screen to perform simple tasks is now second nature to me... Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted February 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Okay, so I've played with this tablet and updated it and added apps and what not and so far, I'm really liking it. IMO the iPad still kicks ass for simplicity and ease of use. However, if an iPad isn't your thing and you want more of a computer, without a full laptop size or need, then this is the ticket. It runs Office 2013 with ease (again, tablet version) but as a power user of Office, I've not missed a beat using it for work stuff. Browser and Windows 8 RT Interface is pretty cool actually. If I want, I can simply ditch the tiles and go to a standard Windows look and feel too. More to come, but for now, it rocks and for the price, is an awesome deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Jones Posted February 11, 2013 Report Share Posted February 11, 2013 Yeah the RT stuff sucks due to limited apps. If you are primarily using office, I'm sure it's fine, but I need X86! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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