The keyboard lets me type just as fast as I want, everything looks slick, swiping between apps and windows is easy as can be (once you get adjusted to Windows 8, I did have to google a few questions and watch some tutorial videos), the Microsoft Suite of Bing apps like news and sports are slicker than I ever would have expected, the connectivity with other devices (like the g/f's windows phone) is sleek, using things like the SkyDrive is as easy as setting up an MS account, so yeah -- I'm digging it. Even splitting windows (web browser big, twitter on the side) is smooth as can be.

so yeah -- I know iPads are nice and all that, but I can't imagine what they have over the Surface. This is everything I wanted out of a slick little gadget without having to pay the Steve Jobs tax.