I don't know what happened, but in the last six months, the number of Surfaces I've seen has absolutely exploded, they're almost everywhere now. I think there'

I don't know what happened, but in the last six months, the number of Surfaces I've seen has absolutely exploded, they're almost everywhere now. I think there's been a push in some corporations to start offering it as a truly mobile device in lieu of less portable, and not as useful Dell machines and the folks I've talked to about them absolutely love them. The idea of having a tablet you can easily show documents and presentations off of, and when you have to type the cover is the keyboard, drop it in a dock and you've got a large screen with mouse and traditional keyboard, grab it and you're immediately on the run. Great battery life, runs all the important applications without fuss, decent specs. I've definitely felt some envy for the beautiful doc, especially when I'm struggling with all the various cables and dongles and crap I have to plug in and out of my Mac to make it a useful desktop machine. Maybe the new Mac Books will solve this with USB-C? sidenote I have a Note, and it's easily the best portable computer I've ever owned. I've easily gotten through an entire day's worth of meetings using nothing but my phone to deal with emails (while listening to music or podcasts), get directions, make some calls (often while surfing the web), and then when I'm there, scribble pages of notes (which I can then email out to participants before we've left the room). A couple places I go even have Chrome casts and I can just mirror the screen and present right off of my phone. It's kind of a magic portable office device, and I don't think I've ever drained the battery on it. I know other phones offer all of that, but there's something about the Note devices that clicks (once you get rid of all the crapware on it). It might also help I have one of those fold-over covers that makes it look kind of like an oversized Moleskine. But it's reduced the amount of stuff I have to haul around to meetings to something I'm already carrying.