I took 4 of them and installed an app called 'virtual piano'. GIANT DIGITAL PIANO: This is my personal favorite. Saving paper and making use of old tech, win! Sure, they could do it on the laptop/tablet directly, but having it on a separate screen helps (and makes them feel like a boss).

They have laptops/tablets for zoom calls, and then the Surface gets used to read their PDF schedules rather than print out their schedule whenever the school sends new ones. Then, when he's done with that, the older siblings use it for their daily schedules emailed from their teachers. The mrs and I use our laptops for work, and he has his own 'mini laptop'.

I bookmarked the drive link on IE so every day we turn it on and he can press the ones that look new and watch his teacher- the videos take a few seconds to load (thanks, ie), but once they play, they look great on the big screen, and play flawlessly. Now, hear me out on this: My preschool aged kid has a teacher sending care packages of supplies for crafts and projects, and then records daily videos to Google Drive. There's a message the browser won't be supported on youtube soon, but hopefully we can ride this out longer.īut here are at least 5 semi decent unique uses I found for them: although the experience is a little bit painful and laggy due to ie being. Installing an app like Xodo PDF from the Store allows you to even mark up PDFs (great for paperwork that you'd rather not print and scan- just write on the surface display).They can play youtube through IE for now. They are still beautiful hardware for e-readers and digital picture frames. That being said, they're not TOTALLY useless, just mostly useless. Sometimes we're given things that people don't want and I can't even give them away, and somehow I ended up with 6 Surface RT originals. I say all of mine because I own 5 of them.Īllow me to explain: I'm volunteering for an organization that is refurbishing donated equipment to people in my community, especially people who don't have enough tech to handle everyone at home trying to work / attend classes remotely during Covid19. Then again, all of mine were recently reset. Weird, I have never seen a Surface RT load up with updates that slow it down.

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