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So 8 Gb free after Windows and a 1GB ram that is full all the time. It’s not a tablet; it’s a brick.

Can you wipe it and load Android or Linux?

Just a few days ago, MSFT announced the 'Surface Pro 3' tablet that is the prosumer version that anyone needing powerful specs would want to buy. BestBuy will sell it at their in-house 'Microsoft Store' for $1299.00 MSRP.

They claim they're reinventing the laptop with this tablet.

Surface Pro 3 comes with a 12" display, Windows 8.1 Pro, an Intel i5 processor, 8Gb RAM, and 256 Gb HDD. There's a slightly enhanced model for $1799.00 that doubles the drive space.

I'm unsure who in their right mind would choose to buy one of these Surface Pro 3s at that price point over a MacBook Air for almost $600 less for almost identical features, or a MacBook Pro against the high-end Surface Pro 3.

What you'd be getting is an i5-based Windows 8.1 pen/touch tablet that costs $1500.00+ and has less power/performance/features than a larger screen full featured Windows 8.1 budget laptop that costs half the price. And for the money you're shelling out for the high end Surface Pro 3, you can almost get the top of the line MacBook Pro.

Before anyone spends a plug nickel on the new Microsoft Surface tablet, they better go look and see what happened to the early adopters of last year's Surface RT tablet.

Seems that industry onlookers are dubious in the extreme.

1gb RAM? Will that even run Windows 8.1?