You haven't enlightened me at all. I know that the surface can do a lot of things. The question is - does it do any of those things better than the competitio

You haven't enlightened me at all. I know that the surface can do a lot of things. The question is - does it do any of those things better than the competition. When in "classical desktop mode" it needs to be better than the MacBook Air, otherwise for most work it will be a worse experience regardless of whether it could at any time transform into a tablet.