This is sort of a "Good Man, Bad Wizard" situation.
If you evaluate the Surface products as a PC tablet, it is among the better ones.
If you evaluate the Surface products as a PC laptop, well... it just isn't one.
The keyboard/kickstand is little more than a novelty,
We have a bunch of the Asus VivoTab and its keyboard is a much more elegant solution. Although only Atom based. And from what I can see the keyboards are rarely not attached.