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javacowboy said:

Honest question:  Have any of you actually tried Surfaces, for work or otherwise?

What are you impressions?  What are the distinct pros and cons?

I working sales and we are on the road much of the time.   The base system for interaction with corporate was Windows.  There were sales apps used for the actual sales where you could use iPads.   The Android app was always buggy and not used.   When the Surface arrived several people in the office got one over the next couple years.   It made sense Windows available for research and corporate work and the sales app all in one convenient place.   They all ended up being expensive paperweights.  They were buggy and difficult to maintain.   Most had iPads and went back to them or old laptops and used the office PC for corporate work.   I was the one usually helping them since I had worked extensively in Windows in my IT past.   Basically, working with them was very far from intuitively obvious.