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Apr 1, 2015 | 5:07 pm

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Originally Posted by IsleOfMan

I probably would have bought this 2 months ago when I was ready to replace my original Surface Pro... and definitely would have bought it a year and a half ago when I saw what the Atom z3xxx-powered tablets (like the original T100TA) could do in that form factor.

That said, having gone from a T100TA to a Surface Pro and back to a T100TAM (metal back version with newer processor), I probably would have still been unhappy with the kickstand form factor given its lack of versatility on airline tray tables.

The T100 delivered fantastic capability for the money, and I still use mine. I have two longstanding reservations thougn:

Out of necessity, the keyboard is a heavy
Local storage and main memory.

The Surface addresses both of these complaints. When I did a dummy preorder, today, I found that Microsoft will supply a 128Gb model, with 4Gb of main memory. From what I've read of the new Atoms, this would allow me to run Oracle Virtualbox + my Linux engineering (and hacking/tinkering and learning) VMs with ease.

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