Originally Posted by
Internaut
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.
In regards to the keyboard, the weight is something I've not taken issue with because it's eliminated the problem of some tray tables not allowing enough depth for both the kickstand AND comfortable typing on the Surface Pro. It happened enough, especially in F/exit-row/bulkhead when a sliding or armrest tray-table didn't allow you to prop the screen up on the seat in front of you.
As for local storage, I do pretty decent with the 64gb model, but did strongly consider the 32gb + 500gb (in the keyboard) model. I decided against it because I'd done just fine with 64gb on the Surface Pro and MicroSD expansion is fine for media (I don't install much past Office and a few Modern UI apps). For what it sounds like you're doing, though, I can definitely see the appeal of the 128gb SSD + 4gb RAM option.