Probably Buying a Surface Pro

Bret86944 · 07-31-2013, 01:02 PM

lol, so apparently no one else has one. Anyways, I went out and bought one yesterday. Pretty sweet. I have one gripe, and it's a pretty big one, the pro DOES NOT come with office. No Excel, no Word, no Powerpoint. WTF??? The $350 RT version has all those, but the $900 pro has none? I guess I'll just use google docs. They shouldn't call both of them the Surface since the only thing in common is the shape.

Other than that, it's fantastic. Screen is awesome, it's fast, you can switch to windows mode and install normal programs. It's very small and light for essentially being a laptop.

I didn't buy the $120 touchpad. I plugged in my old dell keyboard and it worked instantly. Most of the time I just used it with no keypad though. Just put it on my lap and used the pop up keyboard.

I'll mess around with it some more tonight and give you guys an update. If any of you care...lol.

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07-31-2013, 01:02 PM	#2 (permalink)
Bret86944 Base Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Cincinnati Posts: 64 Drives: 2011-base-PW-6mt Rep Power: 14	lol, so apparently no one else has one. Anyways, I went out and bought one yesterday. Pretty sweet. I have one gripe, and it's a pretty big one, the pro DOES NOT come with office. No Excel, no Word, no Powerpoint. WTF??? The $350 RT version has all those, but the $900 pro has none? I guess I'll just use google docs. They shouldn't call both of them the Surface since the only thing in common is the shape. Other than that, it's fantastic. Screen is awesome, it's fast, you can switch to windows mode and install normal programs. It's very small and light for essentially being a laptop. I didn't buy the $120 touchpad. I plugged in my old dell keyboard and it worked instantly. Most of the time I just used it with no keypad though. Just put it on my lap and used the pop up keyboard. I'll mess around with it some more tonight and give you guys an update. If any of you care...lol.