Quick Review of my Surface RT

Here's a real quick thought of my newly-purchased Microsoft Surface RT.

Good points:

• Great for videos. Better than my iPad 3 as it's wide screen.
• It can read/write to portable harddisk!
• You can view Music videos from YouTube using IE. Mobile tablet like iPad cannot play YouTube music videos of well-known artistes now as they are blocked by YouTube.
• Some settings like wallpaper are synchronised for both the rt and my normal laptop running windows 8 and using the same hotmail id to sign in both.
• With a desktop Microsoft Office program built-in together with my separately-purchased "Type Cover Keyboard", it really makes the RT a great productivity tool.

Bad points:

• The number of good apps is pathetic!
• It cannot run normal desktop .exe programs. 

Fortunately, the community has come out with a "jailbreak" utility to allow the RT to run desktop programs.  There's a catch though.  These programs must be built and compiled for the ARM architecture that the RT is made with.

Without doubt, I jailbroke my RT without delay.
There are not many RT-compatible desktop programs now. Only few like 7zip, notepad++, FileZilla and several more are available now.

Overall, I'm satisfied with the RT as I'm not buying it to replace my laptop, but as a better capable tablet.