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I bought the first Surface RT the first day it came out and later replaced it as my daily go to device when I got a Surface Pro 3 and another desktop at home. Since then it mostly sits around getting used less and less with each passing day. I'll sometimes take it along on a short trip to places where I might not want to risk damage to my SP3, where it functions well enough to read e-mail and do very minimal internet browsing. Being smaller than my SP3, sometimes at home I'll carry it into the can or use it to follow recipes in the kitchen or as a semi-portable device for music or podcasts outdoors. And sometimes I use it in front of the TV to look up info on IMDB or as an auxiliary controller for an Xbox 360 to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime movies with Smart Glass. That's about it. Slow as it is, , I figure it's worth keeping around and using for those purposes.
Lately I've been getting a lot of phishing or other dubious e-mails, which I usually resist even opening so as to not let in a virus, but some of them later turn out to have been legitimate inquiries by my bank or credit card company. I was thinking today that the Surface RT might make an excellent device to open questionable e-mails.Being ARM based and designed to only be able to install Windows store apps; having Defender installed and anyway, where's the financial incentive for anyone to bother creating a virus for RT I was thinking that it's pretty much impervious to any virus risk. If something should happen, well, I've pretty much amortized the original cost.
Am I right in thinking that there is virtually no downside or risk using it to open and read just about anything (so long as I don't type in any personal information)?
Does anyone who also has other tablets or laptops for standard purposes, find their RT still worthwhile for another purpose?
Lately I've been getting a lot of phishing or other dubious e-mails, which I usually resist even opening so as to not let in a virus, but some of them later turn out to have been legitimate inquiries by my bank or credit card company. I was thinking today that the Surface RT might make an excellent device to open questionable e-mails.Being ARM based and designed to only be able to install Windows store apps; having Defender installed and anyway, where's the financial incentive for anyone to bother creating a virus for RT I was thinking that it's pretty much impervious to any virus risk. If something should happen, well, I've pretty much amortized the original cost.
Am I right in thinking that there is virtually no downside or risk using it to open and read just about anything (so long as I don't type in any personal information)?
Does anyone who also has other tablets or laptops for standard purposes, find their RT still worthwhile for another purpose?