There is actually nothing wrong with the surface RT. I'm just a bit peeved that I bought it at it's highest price before the big pricedrop for RT, and before the Pro even came out, because the Pro has everything I want in a device like the Surface.
I still use my RT everyday... Literally. But the fact still remains that I get reminded of it's limitations everyday that I use it as well.
How is the fact that you can't install desktop applications a limitation when it is part of it's design? The issue you have isn't the "limitation" it's that you bought the wrong device. They announced the Pro at the same time as RT, if you needed desktop applications then you should have waited for the Pro. It's obvious that the desktop on RT only exists to run Office, when MS releases the version of Office for Modern UI next year they will remove the desktop from RT altogether and it will be a Modern UI tablet only. This also ties into Windows Phone and Windows RT becoming one and sharing the same store and apps.
Design plays no bearing on the concept of limitations. I'm not sure how you figure that is so with all respect.
If I designed a program in which modifies an image, and I remove functionality to change the contrast properties for an image, would that not be both, part of design, and a limitation?
Not being able to even run my own ARM based binaries, is
definitely a limitation of the device. It is a tablet, granted, but if that's the way it's intended to be used, why in the world do they
keep the desktop and provide for you, around 6 or more apps that you CAN use on the desktop side? Very contradicting to the idea of a tablet "design."
it's that you bought the wrong device.
Supposedly. But I was under the assumption that it was to be like the rest of the non-limited tablets based on the ARM processor as well, and to my unknowing, it wasn't the case. Thus, that "mistake" if you call it that, doesn't fall on my shoulders for something I was unaware of. I couldn't buy the Pro, because it wasn't even released at the time.
They announced the Pro at the same time as RT
VERY important keyword here... "Announced." If you do some research, you will find out quickly that the Pro version was not released until a few months after the RT was already being sold to consumers. I would know this very well.
if you needed desktop applications then you should have waited for the Pro.
Irrelevant, recall what I said. I wanted to learn more about the ARM architecture and develop for it on the desktop side.
It's obvious that the desktop on RT only exists to run Office
And for the filesystem, and other accessory applications like notepad, including the control panel and a few others.
when MS releases the version of Office for Modern UI next year they will remove the desktop from RT altogether and it will be a Modern UI tablet only.
I've heard from Microsoft employees that this would take a complete Windows source code revamp. Hence why they kept it. But in Windows 8.1, they released another ARM program, Outlook, which was demanded by users.
I haven't heard word on the desktop's fate for RT, but there are lots out there who think that RT is already dead. Pro is the surviving replacement. It's all speculation, so I take it with a grain of salt, but I can see this as truth, until the Windows store itself grows a bit more.
I don't believe that they will have the desktop removed anytime soon. While they have it available though, I don't see the harm in allowing people to fool around on the desktop side, so in essence, you are
limited to the modern UI interface.
Unless they really dig out the guns for RT, I can't see them making it a true 100% all-tablet device anytime soon with the rest of what is being focused on at this point in time for Microsoft.
This also ties into Windows Phone and Windows RT becoming one and sharing the same store and apps.
It's not quite the same
yet however. And for this to happen with success, I would assume the hardware would likely have to match, or be similar in comparison.