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Somini on 09 January 2014

You don't need to, since you have a laptop.



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toastboy44562 on 09 January 2014
Somini said:
You don't need to, since you have a laptop.


for the future...my laptop shuts off every 10 mintues



nnodley on 09 January 2014
toastboy44562 said:
my laptop is still kickin' not sure if the surface 2 pro is worth paying more money for to be honest

IMO,  surface 2 pro is not worth it unless you really want to run programs other than from the windows store.   I just recently got the Surface 2 RT for christmas and it is really awesome.  I have a desktop at home and a macbook pro too, but I wanted a tablet that is easier to store/carry to my classes.  

And I was bummed it couldn't do itunes either, but I started looking at Xbox Music that is installed on it and it's really good.  I mean it is free with ads or $10 a month for no ads.  You can do radio stations too.  Or you can just add music albums to your collection to listen anytime.   I get an ad about every 7-10 songs I listen to so it's not that bad.   You may have used xbox music before, but if you haven't I recommend it.  I'd honestly rather just keep using the free version to listen to any song I want with an ad thrown in every once in a while than use itunes. 



toastboy44562 on 09 January 2014
nnodley said:
toastboy44562 said:
my laptop is still kickin' not sure if the surface 2 pro is worth paying more money for to be honest

IMO,  surface 2 pro is not worth it unless you really want to run programs other than from the windows store.   I just recently got the Surface 2 RT for christmas and it is really awesome.  I have a desktop at home and a macbook pro too, but I wanted a tablet that is easier to store/carry to my classes.  

And I was bummed it couldn't do itunes either, but I started looking at Xbox Music that is installed on it and it's really good.  I mean it is free with ads or $10 a month for no ads.  You can do radio stations too.  Or you can just add music albums to your collection to listen anytime.   I get an ad about every 7-10 songs I listen to so it's not that bad.   You may have used xbox music before, but if you haven't I recommend it.  I'd honestly rather just keep using the free version to listen to any song I want with an ad thrown in every once in a while than use itunes. 

can you put your music on a usb, drag it to xbox music through the surface 2, and sync your ipod??



Ssenkahdavic on 09 January 2014
toastboy44562 said:

I need my laptop for school and it's on it's last leg. It shuts down and sounding really loud. I'm thinking about getting the Surface 2 that runs windows 8 to replace it. I would use it with a keyboard and usb mouse. Is it any good? I don't plan on using games with it, I have an Xbox One for that. It comes with microsoft office programs I believe


I have a surface rt (first gen) and I use it exclusively at work for office / email.  It does everything I need in place of a windows machine (my desktop is centos that I use for programs...etc)

 

Touch keyboard is great and my usb mouse works perfectly.   App store is weak comparatively to android or ipad, but good enough if you don't need games.



 

  

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nnodley on 09 January 2014
toastboy44562 said:
nnodley said:
toastboy44562 said:
my laptop is still kickin' not sure if the surface 2 pro is worth paying more money for to be honest

IMO,  surface 2 pro is not worth it unless you really want to run programs other than from the windows store.   I just recently got the Surface 2 RT for christmas and it is really awesome.  I have a desktop at home and a macbook pro too, but I wanted a tablet that is easier to store/carry to my classes.  

And I was bummed it couldn't do itunes either, but I started looking at Xbox Music that is installed on it and it's really good.  I mean it is free with ads or $10 a month for no ads.  You can do radio stations too.  Or you can just add music albums to your collection to listen anytime.   I get an ad about every 7-10 songs I listen to so it's not that bad.   You may have used xbox music before, but if you haven't I recommend it.  I'd honestly rather just keep using the free version to listen to any song I want with an ad thrown in every once in a while than use itunes. 

can you put your music on a usb, drag it to xbox music through the surface 2, and sync your ipod??

I'm not sure about syncing an iPod.  But you can put music on a USB and transfer it to the surface.  Then in xbox music you can choose which folder xbox music will pull music in from and will show up in your collection.  I did about 100 songs and they all work.  As long as the music isn't m4p they should work.  iTunes music was m4p(protected) before 2009, but after that they are all m4a so you can play them on pretty much any device. 



DJEVOLVE on 11 January 2014

I'm on a surface RT and I love it. I will be getting another as this is my ladies I bought for her for christmas



SvennoJ on 11 January 2014
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For school I use One Note, powerpoint, the audio recorder and my stylus to take notes, record the lecture AND follow along with the powerpoint presentations all at the same time and I can merge them all into custom notes etc. for more productive study sessions. It's really cool. Not to mention I don't need any special programs or apps to install a printer like you would on most tablets like iPad or Android devices. Plus there is the free Skydrive storage which you can access anywhere and even share folders and files with classmates (even if they don't have a skydrive account) for group projects etc.

Crap, you make me feel old! When I went to university we learned Pascal on these