For those lucky ones who have had some time with the Surface RT, what's your feedback on the performance so far? Some reviews seemed to suggest that the performance can still be rather patchy and sluggish for some applications.
I've had the Surface now for about 2 months.
The performance isn't patchy, it's just not as fast as a present gen iPad. It's much faster than a netbook.
I bought it because it is an inexpensive alternative to a work laptop. Less than 1k, 8 hour battery life, USB storage, a full working keyboard and MS Office.
If you use it as a work laptop alternative, then it functions perfectly well.
Build quality is first rate.
Some unreliability with several apps (notably Zinio, which is much improved since they patched it) but not for the work based things.
Happy to answer other questions.