I have only cursory experiences with the Surfaces. A friend of mine was convinced that it could replace and exceed his laptop's functionalities. He used it to put stuff on the TV while we were at his place with about as much grace and trouble as you had with your screens. I tried navigating the awful Metro UI that somehow thinks swiping in from the edge of the screen is a logical thing. All I learned from that experience was that I will not touch a Surface with a ten foot pole - let alone a freakin' stylus. My approach to technology is always that I want the best tool for the job. I don't really care about one manufacturer over the other as long as I get what I want out of it. Which is why in the last years I went for a desktop PC but a portable MBP Retina; an iPad tablet but an Android phone. There's benefits to staying within one ecosystem but the advantages of being platform-independent outweigh that for me.