Windows 8.1 (aka Windows Blue) RT hits on October 17th. 6 days away. The Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 release on October 22nd. Starting at $449 ($549 for 64GB) and $899 ($999/$1,299/$1,799).
I have been using my Surface sporadically. However since the last patch Tuesday (the 2nd Tuesday of the month if you didn't know), my Surface has been acting kind of unstable. There must have been something in those 29 updates that messed things up a little. It really, really slowed down and I had to delete numerous apps. Maybe I should just refresh it again (but I would have to delete almost everything on it to free up enough space).
The 32 GB is too small for my needs. That is to say that I come way too close to filling it up (especially since you can't save apps externally). Many of the apps that come out are approaching the 500 MB (some over a GB after updates, Adera, alone will probably take off multiple GBs). In other words, the 15GB available space out of the box fills up quicker than I thought it would. I have a 32GB micro SD card, but since you can't save apps on it, it doesn't do me much good.
Unfortunately, the 64GB is like $100 more
I like what they are trying to do with Windows RT, but an underpowered Tegra processor and numerous patches (which tend to eat up "hard drive" space) and slow the device down a little after every update are problems. Maybe the Tegra 3 and Windows 8.1 will improve the situation (they couldn't hurt it much).
Still no pre-paid app solution - hurry up MSFT, get on it (maybe 8.1).
Available Apps (as of 10/11/13): Total/Free - Games: 12,345 / 9,724
- Social: 992 / 883
- Entertainment: 6,629 / 5,674
- Photo: 891 / 694
- Music/Video: 9,576 / 8,042
- Sports: 3,386 / 3,070
- Books/Reference: 6,661 / 2,011
- News/Weather: 2,599 / 2,496
- Health/Fitness: 1,361 / 1,077
- Food/Dining: 1,268 / 996
- Lifestyle: 3,153 / 2,861
- Shopping: 623 / 606
- Travel: 3,001 / 2,411
- Finance: 560 / 429
- Productivity: 1,855 / 1,320
- Tools: 3,519 / 2,973
- Security: 192 / 128
- Business: 952 / 781
- Education: 7,745 / 6,022
- Government: 215 / 194
Xbox on Windows (Surface App Stuff):
New games since last time (was so much easier to search before JustAFan loaded the Xbox search with music stuff) maybe, i'm not sure on some of the dates. Some of the prices may have fluctuated in that time this is as of October 11 at 12:28 PM Pacific time.
* Six-Guns (free to play)
* Asphalt 7: Heat [$1.99]
* Fishdom 3 Special Edition [$4.99]
* Halo Spartan Assault[$6.99]
* Babel Rising 3D [$3.49]
* Puzzle by Nikoli X Sudoki (is this legit?) [$1.49]
* AlphaJax (free to play)
* Ty The Tasmanian Tiger [$6.99]
* Field and Stream Fishing [$4.99]
* Endless Skater (free to play)
* Team Crossword (free)
* Harvest [$6.99]
* Doritos Crash Course Go [$1.49]
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