Surface RT–first impressions

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Published on Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:44:23 GMT Indexed on 2013/06/24 16:23 UTC
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Couple months ago I bought Surface RT because I needed some lightweight business supporting thing to take with me sometimes. Carrying ~3kg development laptop is not always fun, specially when you have long days and you need to move from one place to another often. Surface RT turned out to be pretty good investment and here are my first real-life experiences.

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