Every few weeks the tablet would refuse to wake from sleep mode and I'd have to go through an elaborate set of steps to force the thing to do a hard shutdown and power-on.

Windows 8.1 desktop mode sucks on a tablet (no mouse, tiny text, links hard to click, etc).

(There is now a version available for Microsoft Edge.)

At the time there were also no Reddit Enhancement Suite versions available for Windows Store-compatible browsers, and I find Reddit basically unusable without it, so that was another thing keeping me in Desktop mode on my tablet.

At the time, it was also the only browser available on the Windows Store, so I had to use the tablet in Desktop mode in order to run more responsive browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

The 'Windows Store' version of Internet Explorer 11 that came with Windows 8.1 was really slow and unbearable to use.

I like the simple, elegant vinyl folio case I bought with it.

It's got a bright, good-looking screen.

I used the thing almost daily for at least a full year before relegating it to a bookshelf when I won an iPad mini at a company picnic. I originally got my tablet, the Venue 5830 Pro model, at a huge discount when buying a laptop from Dell a few years ago.

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