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Oh, and the Venue arrived Thursday. OOB experience was the usual windows device suck (about an hour of updating and tweaking and patching... really dell? that's like fresh from the factory suckage) but blessedly little/no crapware installed. The hardware is beautiful, performance is great...

Things that are not yet (nor likely ever to be in) the store: Volcano Flow viewer (if you have one of these, this x86 app is required to actually use the device) VLC to view ISO rips of my DVDs (otherwise, you have to do an MP4 encode to view...) XBMC anyone? Yep. Firefox or Chrome browsers How...

You are not seeing normal mail behaviour. Delete all email accounts, and then re-add them. If that doesn't work, uninstall the mail app (which also takes out people and calendar, so be warned) and then re-install it from the store. Pain in the butt, but clearly something didn't get migrated...

Yeah, I posted that fix a while back - post #8, this thread :) http://www.surfaceforums.net/forum/microsoft-surface-general-discussion/6439-power-battery-issues-win-8-1-rt.html#post41355

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Surface 2... that's the RT surface. You're not running Chrome on that. You're talking about the Surface Pro 2 if you're running x86 apps. If you had this many problems OOB with a Pro 2, you had a *very* defective unit. As to the kickstand leaving grooves in your bare legs... well, I expect the...

If you were running 8.1 preview changes are you (like me) are getting bit by the wrong power profile being set after upgrade. See this for help: Microsoft Surface RT and Surface 2 battery and power | Recharge Surface Scroll down to "Surface RT only: Battery issue when updating from Windows RT...

I've ordered the dell venue - already have (and love) the microsoft wedge bt keyboard - it's getting used with a first gen surface rt, and ipads around the house... I bet it will work fine for the venue for extended typing. Looks like a great companion device for around the house use...

The product key on the Surface Pro is embedded in the UEFI on the motherboard. Nothing to worry about there. If you want to find your key, you can use this utility : KeyFinder | Magical Jelly Bean

See XBox. See Bing. I think this is a core business for them.

Press and hold the device to connect it?

There is an option to enable checkboxes for multiple select in desktop explorer. Check Boxes to Select Items - Turn On or Off in Windows 8

There is no difference in usable battery - iPad wins for standby, but if the device is on/used all day, either will need to be recharged every night. An RT tablet could easily be used for a workday on a single charge.

And think of the splinters!

Start->powershell (Administrator) -> type regedit Running as admin. Seems to work for me.

Just get both :) The RT is a great companion device, and you can swap keyboards between the two...

I love it when I see those when browsing on my Linux box.

The special keys are in groups of 4. So the first key in each group is Fn (group # +1) So F5 is the search key :)

That's an Event Log. Most of what's in there are Events. Not Errors. Windows logs a lot of stuff, most of it is normal. If you're having some actual issue, then the event log might help troubleshoot what it is. Otherwise it's fine. You should see the logs on a normally functioning Linux box :)

Besides Video (which must not have been pinned to start on your best buy device) I'm finding Media Monkey to be quite good, while waiting for the VLC port to Metro.