I spent 15 minutes playing with a Surface at the MS store. I found that the typing cover was certainly much better than the touch cover. The typing cover is a v

I spent 15 minutes playing with a Surface at the MS store. I found that the typing cover was certainly much better than the touch cover. The typing cover is a very decent keyboard with even noticable mouse button clicks on the trackpad. It is certainly not just "slightly better". I didn't like the touch cover much but I noticed I was already getting used to it. I tried to reproduce the typing speed problem in Word and it is definitely fixed. Even when I mashed the keyboard at max speed Word kept up. I did manage to get Powerpoint to slow down by downloading a presentation with a bitmap image in the background. Typing over the bitmap image was not realtime but still usable. Certainly considering recommending this to someone who just want a super-mobile MS Office machine.