This is the reason I haven't really been excited about a surface yet. It's really too bulky to be used as a tablet for prolonged periods of time and the keyboar

This is the reason I haven't really been excited about a surface yet. It's really too bulky to be used as a tablet for prolonged periods of time and the keyboard/stand is not really that comfortable to be used as a laptop for prolonged periods of time. Full windows also just means 'legacy apps', which have no touch support nor scaling. Sure you can connect this to a monitor and use it with a standard mouse/kb combo but at that point what is the real advantage of the Surface itself?