Says microsoft in their announcement: > "Surface Pro has a USB 3.0 port for connectivity with almost limitless storage options, including external hard drives

Says microsoft in their announcement: > "Surface Pro has a USB 3.0 port for connectivity with almost limitless storage options, including external hard drives and USB flash drives" Translation: "For the sake of portability ..." > "Customers can also free up additional storage space by creating a backup bootable USB and deleting the recovery partition" Translation: "... and for the sake of simplicity ..." > "Surface also comes pre-loaded with SkyDrive, allowing you to store up to 7GB of content in the cloud for free" Translation: "... and because we've always poo-pooed Google when it came to the usefulness of their Chromebooks without an Internet connection ..." "... we are proud to present to you ... surface pro!!!"