The Surface is a hybrid computer pretending to be a laptop and a notebook, but not doing either very well. It is overpriced. An iPad at a fraction of the cost can handle functions like browsing/watching movies, same as android tablets. My wife recently bought an iPad Mini for $200 that works great. Can you get a Surface at that cost? No. If you want a laptop, get a Mac Pro. There are various versions of the iPad from low to high cost, depending on how robust you want it to be. The Surface is simply high cost.
I’m not saying the Surface, by any stretch of the imagination, is not overpriced. It is purely a luxury tech piece IMHO.
However an iPad pro can run $1,000-1,129 so it’s not like it’s a bargain either on the high end.
I’m not trying to argue here and not a fanboy but a top end Surface and iPad are both $1,000+ and I’d much rather have one than the other.
I just noticed that Amazon is selling refurbished MS Surface 3s, minus pen and keyboard for around $285. For those Freepers who are looking for a good bargain on these, that's where I would look. The simple keyboard for them is around $80. . . the pen should be discounted too.
If you want to run Windows 10 on a tablet environment, it's not a bad device.
I agree and, clearly, they didn’t contact me. The Surface is a clunky, temperamental quasi-Laptop that does little well. I have to restart it numerous times due to it’s finicky touchscreen that works sometimes and fails often. Poorly crafted.