iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad Air, AppleTV. These are the devices I use every day. It used to be Blackberry, iPod Touch, HP Laptop, Xbox 360. It started with the X

iPhone, MacBook Air, iPad Air, AppleTV. These are the devices I use every day. It used to be Blackberry, iPod Touch, HP Laptop, Xbox 360. It started with the Xbox. I played a lot of games in college, but before starting grad school I realized that I would need to really bring it if I wanted my M.A. to be useful outside of academia, so I sold my Xbox 360, Kinect, controllers, and games (Halo 3, MW3, DiRT, and some others) for $150. I then bought an AppleTV and had a nice lunch. After setting up the AppleTV I was really impressed with how easily it connected to, and streamed, my iTunes library and Netflix. So soon after I ditched the Blackberry for an iPhone 4. That, too, was amazing and I soon snatched up an iPad 1 and, finally, ditched the HP for the Air. Since then I've really enjoyed the Apple "way" and I am always amazed that, regardless of what new hardware comes out by other vendors, I am never jealous of anyone else's rig or laptop. I'm never thinking "Man, I need to get that 'droid device as soon as I can." And I never look at a PC and think I'll be ditching the Air and picking going back to PC. However, I have coveted the design and hardware of the Surface since the very first one. It's a really solid design that has only gotten better with time, and the Surface Pro 3 seems to be even better. I love how it looks, how it feels, and the utility of the device. The Surface Pro is the first device to come along since I switched from PC to Mac that makes me take notice of anything else. Unfortunately, there are a few things that I dislike. The keyboard cover is too flimsy to be really useful, meaning that it's really just a mildly-useful accessory that would be better off as a proper keyboard. Also, I dislike the stand aspect of the Surface. If I have a keyboard attached, then I shouldn't need a stand, it should just lock in place, more like a dock than a cover (though of course it needs to be easily adjustable, but I'll leave that problem for the designers and the engineers to sort out). Other than those two things, the Surface seems like a really solid device, and so I'm genuinely surprised that it's doing so poorly as far as sales figures go.