Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet

First time accepted submitter jigamo writes "Microsoft's newly released Surface tablets are available in 32 and 64 GB capacities. The company has disclosed how much of that space is available to the user. After taking into account Windows RT, Microsoft Office, built-in apps, and Windows recovery tools, nearly 13 GB of the available space is eliminated from user accessible storage. Microsoft's recommendations for adding additional capacity are to use cloud storage, a memory card, or a USB storage device."

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Almost half

[tbird81]

"Nearly 13"/32 = nearly 40%.
"Nearly 13"/64= nearly 20%.

Almost half. Sure, no exaggeration detected at all. And then you can add a memory card if over 19GB isn't enough for everybody.

Yes you CAN attach external media with an iPad

[SuperKendall]

You didn't respond to the point, which is that you *can* attach external media. And you can't do that with the iPad.

Apologies! The point was simply wrong, I guess why I skipped over it.

You can read media off an SD card (or other devices that mount via USB) on an iPad using the camera connection kit.

Surface wins on this functionality checkbox.

The functionality is the same, the surface makes it slightly more convenient.