Id never touch my iPad again. Smetimes it is just a specific app that keeps people grounded to a system. In my case it's clash of clans although I do own a surface rt. I'd love it and use it evennmore if it had this game.
Since I posted this back in November a few things have changed for me, namely I don't use a surface rt anymore. Instead I've been using a Lenovo Thinkpad tablet 2 and it's been amazing both in terms of battery and performance plus it comes with a Wacom stylus. I lucked out and found one on craigslist for $200 with dock! At the time I bought mine they were going for $500+ for the tablet alone. The only thing I have had a little disappointment with is it's underpowered graphics. The reason I bring this up is because the solution to our problems is very simple, i.e a program called BlueStacks (RT can't run this x86 program). It lets you run android apps on windows tablets, if you haven't heard of it before i'm sure youre excited at this point, but you have to calm down a bit until I tell you the rest of the story. If you have a tablet running intel's Clover Trail atom processors, the one unfortunately found in my thinkpad tablet 2, it wont work due to graphic requirements. There is good news, however, Lenovo is soon to release the Thinkpad tablet 2's successor, the thinkpad tablet 10, which comes equipped with intel's new Bay Trail atom processor which has been confirmed to work with BlueStacks! Of course at this point the SurfacePro 3 is looking rather tempting and probably the one i'll go with as it's as thin as a Surface RT and almost as light! $700 for a 64gb ipad vs $800 for a 64gb ultrabook/tablet replacement, easy enough choice for me.