Surface RT
Surface RT was released on October 26, 2012. Running Windows RT Operating System on a Quad-Core NVIDIA Tegra 3 Processor. Storage options are 32 GB or 64 GB. According to recent news, only 16 GB available for the 32 GB hard drive and 46 GB available for 64 GB hard drive. Bundled with the Surface RT is Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview.
Office Home & Student 2013 RT includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Surface RT does not support Outlook.
The price for the Surface RT is $499.00.
Surface Pro
Surface Pro was release on February 9, 2013. Running Windows 8 Pro Operating System on Dual-Core Intel i5 Processor. Storage options are 64 GB or 128 GB. According to recent news, only 23 GB available for the 64GB hard drive and 83 GB for the 128 GB hard drive. Bundled with the Surface Pro is Full Office Suite Preview.
Surface Pro is a Business tablet that includes a pen and the pen digitizer. The stylus helps make taking notes, drawing and marking up documents easy. The price for the Surface Pen is $29.99.
The price for the Surface Pro is $899.00.
Not included with the purchase of the Surface RT or the Surface Pro is a keyboard. Microsoft offers two options, Touch cover and Type Cover. The Touch Cover is a pressure-sensitive keyboard and tablet cover; available in Red, Black, Cyan, White and Magenta. The price of the Touch Cover is $119.99. The Type Cover is thin “classic” keyboard and tablet cover; only available in Black. The price of the Type Cover is $129.99.
Type Cover and Touch Cover