I tried out a Surface at the Microsoft Store in the Park Meadows mall, south of Denver. It was okay. Didn't seem slow to me, but it didn't do the things I want to do with it. I'm going to check out the Surface Pro. One thing I really want with it is some kind of TypeCover that uses bluetooth so I can set the thing in portrait mode and use it that way. I also plan to dual-boot it with Fedora or Ubuntu Linux. The Samsung machines are awfully tempting too.

WorksOnMyMachine is why web hosted applications are so popular. Now it only has to work on your web server! It's also why so many companies now ship software complete with its own virtual machine image. Now you can just have a copy of my machine!