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Microsoft has confirmed what many had suspected, that it didn't offer a 16GB Surface RT tablet because there would have been virtually no room for customer content on the device. According to a FAQ published Monday, a 32GB Surface has approximately 16GB of storage space available after accounting for the Windows RT operating device, numerous built-in "Windows Store" (formerly "Metro") apps, OS recovery tools, and the bundled Office RT. Lean, mean and using half the machine.
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So size and price wise it is just like the iPad then. They are just marketing different. As I have seen on iPads the size is what you have to use. The OS does not consume any of that.
I am merely going off the little graph they display for content (2GB used on Pictures, 2GB on Apps, 5 GB on video etc) as there is nothing in it that is not the users content and it has the fully amount "specd".
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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