I've had mine for about 2 weeks now. I like the size and weight. It's reasonable and much lighter than a laptop of course. Still getting used to metro vs regular apps and how I'll best interact with it. I'm still reaching for the iPad first for email and such. The surface has got lots of work editing photos and videos (recently back from Antarctica and I have a crap ton of pics to work through.) I find Lightroom runs at least as fast and gopro editing is much faster than my circa 2009 laptop which is expected.
The kickstand is great. Solid in any position. Great design there.
I still haven't got used to the behaviours of metro. I want to be able to minimize the app but that isn't how this works. Need to hit the home button. I don't know why my brain says minimize instead of home.
I also read about heat issues and I do find it runs hot for seemingly no reason. It can be sitting there not in use and I notice it's really warm. I'm used to the iPad behaviours where one just closes the Smart Cover and forgets about it. I do the same with the surface which puts it into sleep mode but I think MS treats sleep differently? It can also get hot doing simple things like surfing or running email. Only got thing is the kickstand keeps the heat off your legs which makes it ok.
I'm still looking for a good metro based email app to aggregate all my accounts (2x gmail, pop mail, hotmail, office365). The native iPad mail app eats them all up which I like. I'm sure there is an option.
I'm undecided how I'm treating the surface. It's a laptop for sure and I'm trying to treat it as a tablet but haven't quite got there yet. I suspect I just need more time with it.
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