I've never quite figured out the Surface. It is a tablet that you don't really want to hold and it is a laptop that you really can't put in your lap. It needs a hard surface but a flat one so I imagine it being pretty useless in an airplane or in a car. Any situation where it works well, so would a laptop. Any situation where it works poorly, so would a laptop. Other than being "convertible" between two poor situations, it doesn't seem to have a good use case. It's like the worst of all worlds. A bad tablet and a pathetic laptop. Better to have one of each that is good at what it does.