Originally Posted by
Cosmicpore
Would go with the surface over anything unbranded, as you are kind of buying blind. Despite the fact that on paper the specs look pretty similar to the MS stuff, for build quality and performance you'd be hard pushed to find something better than a surface.
Although the surfaces pro's (8.1 models) are incredible perfromance-wise, they a little bit thicker than I would like for a tablet. RT is a gorgeous, gorgeous tablet, but I couldn't live with it, need to run exe files, but that's personal preference/need. For a media tablet or just word processing, browsing etc the RT version is just fine.
I now have the dell venue 11 pro, which is dells rival to the surface tablets. Earlier models were apparently not great, as in they all had constant issues (even mine did) but my replacement tablet has been outstanding. Games, photoshop, ableton etc are a dream and the battery life is forever. Build quality is lovely. However they aren't the cheapest windows tab out there. Also the pen is shit.
For a cheap tab with windows (ish) I'd go go for the RT.