The Microsoft surface is expensive. By the time you add in all of the non  
standard equipment it isn't such a deal. They range in price from $800.00 on 
up  and if I'm not mistaken, that doesn't include a keyboard. They come 
with Windows  8 which is a dead operating system. Software developers as well 
as hardware  manufacturers are not going with it.
I did the beta testing with 8 when it became available and Microsoft didn't 
 listen to the testers. They basically said that this is what you will get 
and  like it. (That entire development team is now gone) It's a crappy 
operating  system for anything other than a touch pad and even that is very hard 
to get  used to for the average user. I personally use a Lenovo product with 
the Android  operating system. Thousands of free software choices and I 
paid around $150.00  for it. Around Christmas time I spent more time 
downgrading other people's  Christmas presents from 8 to Windows 7. Most manufacturers 
now allow you to  order their products with 7 installed at no extra charge. 
 
Rummy
 
 
In a message dated 4/18/2014 6:45:34 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
jfn302 at yahoo.com writes:

Check  the Surface out,  It is a full computer that you can use like a 
tablet as  well,  you will like that much better than the limitations that the 
ipad  has. My brothers experience with the ipad convinced me that it is not 
much  more than an entertainment device. And any of the boating specific  
applications that the ipad does the Surface can do just as well if not better  
because of its full computer status. 

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