[Yhippa]

I actually own a Surface RT and I like it. I get the feeling that a lot of people try out Windows 8 or the Surface RT for a few minutes and pan it as crap. There's definitely a learning curve associated with it but the payout is that it's got advanced gestures that allow you to do more without a keyboard.

One thing that could be impacting sales is that you have to go to a Microsoft Store (brick-and-mortar) or online there to purchase it. There is no try-before-you-buy experience unless you're lucky to live close to one of those stores.

As for the storage space what I've noticed is that I need just enough space locally to have certain files available to me. So local storage for me is basically a cache where I keep most of my documents in the cloud.

[dpark]

> it's got advanced gestures that allow you to do more without a keyboard.

I really like the edge swiping. I miss it on other devices where menus and such are wasting my screen space all the time.

One thing I don't like is the "swipe from left to change apps". There's a setting to adjust that, though, so the left swipe pulls up the app switcher instead.

[Yhippa]

Coming from WebOS I love swipe gestures and am more sad more OS's don't utilize them.

I didn't know about that setting. Thanks, I'll have to check that out!

One other thing that I do like is the ability to show more than one app on the screen at the same time as appropriate. So you can see your music app in the left 25% of the screen while you type up a document or surf the web. Really underrated.