Having seen the Surface and messed around with it a little bit I like it. But this review has something that's off, and it's screen display.
Back when Surface for RT was first revealed, Microsoft shied away from confirming the tablet's screen resolution. We can now understand why: if people knew then that it had a 1,366 x 768 pixel count, they might have pooh-poohed it for not having a 1,920 x 1,200 panel, or better. And that would have been a shame; as any digital camera aficionado will tell you, there's more to image quality than resolution.
I like to take photos, and a lot of stuff affects the end result but the lens is the big deal for cameras. The better the lens, the better the photo. This is why when you take a photo from a camera phone it looks fine on the phone, but put it on your computer at full size it looks like garbage (compared to a SLR-type camera).
This is resolution:
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300x220 image with normal pixel density
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300x220 image with pixels 10X larger
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Middle picture BUT with the same pixel density as the first one. You're cramming the pixels into a smaller space, which makes the photo better even though it's smaller. (This is the reverse situation of the camera phone I mentioned.) If you have Photoshop you can actually increase the resolution of a photo, whereby PS makes up some new pixels on its own and stuffs them in there. You have to do this properly otherwise it will look terrible, but it is possible to enlarge a photo and not worry about a loss in image quality because you're fabricating a higher resolution.
1366x768 =
definition of Surface RT.
148 PPI =
resolution of a Surface RT.
1920x1080 = definition of Surface Pro.
208 PPI = resolution of a Surface Pro.
The RT and the Pro are both on a 10.6 inch screen, which means the Pro is gonna have a better looking display. I'm not saying the RT display is crap because it's not. I've seen it and it looks great. But you put it beside a display with more pixels in the same space, it will look inferior is all I'm saying.
Lesson over, carry on.