Nope. I never really saw the need for an ipad. Apple failed to convince me it was something I needed in my life. To me, Apple products fall far short of what I want. Surface addresses quite a few of those issues. I'm not saying it's perfect. Like any product I'd wait for generation 2 to come out. Been burnt too many times on tech that becomes obsolete too quick (I paid the same for Psion 3c years ago).

I'm meeting a lot of youngsters that are giving up on ipads too. My 15 year old nephew asked his Dad to get him a laptop as he wanted a bigger screen to watch movies on and play games on - as well as to do his school work. A lot of his mates are passing their ipads down to infants to play with instead. I reckon if Surface had been around then, he would have asked for that because of the keyboard and Office functionality. I'm not bothered about outlook being missing as I used web based mail, even my office now does too! It's all in the cloud!!