>> On the Surface I can run pretty much anything: Netbeans, Visual Studio, Notepad++, Sublime, and so on. Heck I can install Linux if I wanted and use VIM or em

>> On the Surface I can run pretty much anything: Netbeans, Visual Studio, Notepad++, Sublime, and so on. Heck I can install Linux if I wanted and use VIM or emacs (assuming the keyboard is connected). This is kind of a "just because you can doesn't mean you should" thing -- at least if your main use case for the device is as a developer machine. Notepad++ and Sublime should run quite fast on an Atom, but the other two may not provide you with as solid a user experience as a Surface Pro would.