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I am a consultant and travel a lot for work, I have used a Surface, and I am not impressed at all. The need for a keyboard and mouse for most work tasks just makes it a very expensive laptop. The touch interface is hardly ever used except for non work related stuff. I don't see how anyone can justify the price when it will be used exactly like a laptop 99% of the time.

Yes there are a minority of people who will use the touch interface, but the vast majority of people sit down at a desk (or on the sofa) and use it exactly like a much cheaper laptop.

I use an iPad outside work, not because it is lighter, but because the interface is 100% designed for touch and my 4 year old can use it, I definitely can't say the same for a Surface when I see adults struggling to use it. Even with a Surface I still use an iPad outside work.

All these Surface articles talk about using a single device rather than a laptop/iPad combo, but the fatal flaw in that argument is that in most cases the employer buys the laptop and the employee buys the iPad, I don't see too many employers rushing to spend a fortune on a Surface to save their employee from buying an iPad.