Originally Posted by skofarrell

Microsoft themselves are implying it. "96% of people have a laptop and a tablet." Inferring that now you only need one device. The "laptop" (Surface). The trouble is that for what a Surface costs you can easily get a decent laptop and an iPad or Android tablet.

Microsoft doesn't get that most of the people most of the time want a laptop/desktop experience at their desk and a tablet experience when moving around. At my company, people typically create content they are at their desk, and at their desk they want a mouse, monitor and a keyboard. When moving around, from meeting to meeting (or when travelling) they typically consume content. They take notes, read and annotate docs, browse the web or watch TV. They want broadband, they want all day battery and they don't want to carry a power supply. An iPad fits the bill.

The Surface, like most Wintel Tablets are a slower than iPad or Android tablets to boot, only have a 5-6 hour battery life, and without broadband don't fit the mobile use case. Too many compromises.

I'm more interested in seeing if someone can produce a broadband enabled, fanless, instant boot Windows slate when Broadwell comes out...but I'm doubtful. I'm irritated that RT didn't work out. That might have been the iPad competition.