I have every reason to want this thing to succeed. I used to work at Microsoft, I want more competition in the space, I even develop software for Windows. But

I have every reason to want this thing to succeed. I used to work at Microsoft, I want more competition in the space, I even develop software for Windows. But good lord is Microsoft hardware just utter trash compared to what Apple is putting out these days. Let's compare: Surface 3 Pro vs. Macbook Air. MBA is 4 years old, SP3 is about 3 years old. (I own both and am speaking 100% from personal experience here) Macbook Air: 6-8 hours of battery life. Surface: 3-4. Macbook air recovery from sleep: flawless. Surface sleep kinda-sorta works. Sometimes I have to push the button 2-3 times. It usually takes at least 5-10 seconds to recover. It's not instant like my Air. Occasionally my surface does silly things, like I'll flip the cover back and the screen shows up inverted. I can shake it, turn it sideways, try to fix it, nothing. This sort of nonsense simply doesn't happen on my Macbook Air. Ever. The keyboard of the surface pro is terrible. It flexes under normal weight and is too light to properly balance the machine. The display on the surface, despite getting less battery life, is less bright, and less glare-resistant. The surface is thicker. It also uses an eMMC hard disk drive that gets shoddy performance compared to the SSD in the (older) Air. About the only thing the surface has going for it is the pen which I use from time to time. This is one of those cases where you can make a "fair" comparison but it really isn't even close. Apple is just playing in an entirely different league than MS. Apple is designing their own CPUs while Microsoft is still trying to figure out how to get wake-from-sleep working. There just isn't any real competition here at all.