It is really excellent if you will actually use the pen. I love pen input (I have a Note III and a Surface 2). I love using Hyper-V -- which seems much faster

It is really excellent if you will actually use the pen. I love pen input (I have a Note III and a Surface 2). I love using Hyper-V -- which seems much faster than VirtualBox (on Windows). I went through like 7 devices prior to sticking with this one -- Macbook Air and Pro, Asus Transformer, X301, Pixel ... and others. None of them had all the things I wanted in one place... the Surface 2 is just about a perfect fit for me. I doodle on it (pressure sensitive pen is AWESOME), I take hand written notes, I run Ubuntu and CentOS in Hyper-V for work stuff, I run Visual Studio, I play League of Legends (1080p mid-low settings) and it is just my go-to device when I am not on my desktop. I purchased it on a complete lark -- just to have one, and it is quickly become my go to device when traveling. It is a machine of compromises... it has a "good" screen, it has "good" battery life, it has "good" performance, it has "good" pen input, it has a "good" weight. Not exceptional in any category, but if you want something that places in all of them -- it is perfect.