photobriangray
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I'm out shopping with my girl and we see the surface 2 and she's impressed with it. I tell her there's a new version and it runs the full version of windows and i show it to her. She thinks it's the perfect device for her since she's going back to school within a year. We planned to look at laptop options to replace her old one. her old laptop functions fine, it's just old lol. I want her to have a surface but the issue I'm having is tiers and pricing. She would prefer to have more than 64gb for the hard drive but an i5 or i7 is super overkill for what she needs. I can throw in an SSD and windows 8 on her current laptop and wait for the surface pro 4 or should we just get the surface pro 3 anyway?
So going back on topic, is there anything she does with a computer that requires "full windows"? RT has office, email, browsing, apps for fun/social stuff, etc. Is there any software she actually needs that isn't covered by an app? My wife has been RT only since the first Surface came out. She really has no idea what that means, but she can open work docs, read pdfs, check email and surf the web and hasn't had a single virus or spyware issue while her work computer has been replaced twice due to a hardware failure followed by a nasty virus sent in by a compromised vendor's email.
You can output to a larger monitor, pair Bluetooth mice and keyboards. Basically, RT is everything a computer is for most people. So if she likes the Surface 2, get her one. Best part, you won't have significant other IT support issues.