Toshiba Portege Z10t - reasonable buy?

So I found this on kogan for $869. A bit of quick searching shows it pretty cheap compared to other sellers, but not sure whether it constitutes a bargain worthy of the main site.

What are peoples thoughts on this? I figure it's an old product likely to be superseded soon, although the specs seem pretty good still. Is it worth spending the extra for a surface 3 or spending less on a t100?

https://m.kogan.com/au/buy/toshiba-portege-z10t-core-i5-fhd-…

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    It's cheaper than other places because this is a grey import from Hong Kong or Taiwan, not local AU stock.

    It's also fairly old, based on Ivy Bridge which means it will not be the equivalent of a Surface Pro 3 (the Surface Pro 3 is a Haswell generation CPU). This means

    less CPU performance
    less GPU performance
    less power efficiency

    when compared to devices sold in the last year using Haswell CPUs.

    Overall the SP3 has the following advantages, ignoring the obvious CPU advantage

    higher resolution (2160x1440 in 3:2 aspect ratio vs 1080p in 16:9 ratio)
    .4 inches larger screen size
    has a kickstand
    has a larger batttery (42 Wh vs 39Wh)
    has a better front camera (5 megapixels vs 3)
    has a better 256 level pressure sensitive active N-trig stylus (as opposed to a ordinary capacitive stylus)

    The overall reviews were
    6/10
    2/5
    3.75/5

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