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.

My Fibre Broadband under Minor Stress Test

This morning my newly-activated Fibre Broadband was put into minor stress test.

Several of the mobile devices were put to use in a typical Sunday morning.

I was also trying out the streaming of videos from my Android Samsung Galaxy S WIFI to my Apple TV. The PlayTo app was used to do that.

Meanwhile, the kids were watching YouTube videos on the iPad 3rd Gen. They like to replay those "favourited" videos.

At the same time, I continued my "saving" of 3 episodes of Taiwan drama serial simultaneously to local storage. "Saving" here means "Caching" technically or "Downloading" in layman term.

Then I start my "caching" of a 26MB videos from YouTube.

No one complained of any stoppages or lag.
Previously on ADSL, someone will grumble their videos are lagging or not moving.