Customer Ratings & Reviews

Surface has made running a business so much easier.

It's like having a laptop and a tablet at the same time. Way more powerful than a mere tablet. It's a full blown pc

I wanted something that I could travel with but was exactly like my laptop as far as functionality. It is perfect!

Great capability, but it needs to have some kind of manual to allow those of us who are not geeks to learn how to use all of them!

I love it but then get stuck not being able to find my way back to a screen. May just be me not the Surfaces fault. Need lessons.

This tablet is great for work and school. Easy to set up and use. Love it!

overall good but flimsy keyboard and not many apps yet. Sufficient for small office work.

It does everything I wanted it to do. It's light and easy to carry around for working at school and at home, etc.

Great product for school use onstead of lugging around a laptop. Good for word users and ita compatibility since its Microsoft.

great laptop capabilities in a tablet. when used with one note, it will provide an excellent way to organize and have portability.

Keep up the good work. I like the way all of the programs work together.

I purchased 3 of these for my business. All are operating as expected.

The Surface Pro is a great device for anyone looking for a powerful computer with the portability of a tablet.

I manage the computers for a prosecutor’s office. The two biggest complaints I hear about using technology in the courtroom are 1. my laptop is too big and bulky for the work area in the courtroom, I need something the size of an IPad. 2. I need to be able to have access to all of my files and programs like PowerPoint, etc. The surface is our answer and it will save money. We need a laptop that runs Windows Professional to allow the laptop to connect to our Domain for security. We need a tablet for the portability and easy of doing legal research on the Internet. The IPad/Android only gave us the Internet and not the ability to be part of our secure domain. The surface Pro has the Professional version of Windows so I have been able to join it to our Domain and run all of our commercial and specialized software. An added bonus is that our attorneys take lots of notes, the stylus and OneNote will allow us to take hand written notes and save them out as pdfs, etc. We could not have done this on an IPad because the writing pads apps look more like I am using a magic marker instead of a pen. For a next budget cycle, we are going to replace our 5+ year old laptops with the Surface. If you compare the cost of buying a laptop and a tablet, the Surface is a lot cheaper. In addition to the Surface Pro 128 and the type cover, we are going to buy a 1. USB 3.0 docking station that supports dual monitors, LAN (wired network) and has additional usb ports; 2. Portable DVD drives; 3. a couple of display port adapters for presentations; and 4. wireless full-size keyboard and mouse. When the user is at his/her desk, they will plug in the power cord and the usb docking station that has the LAN, monitor, keyboard/mouse, and DVD. At this point, they have a full function computer system. For when needed on the go, they take the surface, type cover and the portable DVD player, if needed. I have tested that all of this works on our Windows 2008 R2 Domain with group policies. The issues I have encountered are: 1. The type cover sometimes has a small lag with the touch pad. This could be related to me using two fingers to move and click. 2. Windows 8 Pro has given me some issues with adding the .net 3.5 framework after I join the domain. MS states this is related to the Windows Update Service on our Domain. I recommend installing the 3.5 framework before joining the Domain. Otherwise, you have to use a local copy of Windows 8 and the dos command to manually install the 3.5 framework. Everybody in our office who has seen Windows 8 things that it is cool and easy to use. As with any new software, there is a learning curve. As an IT person, if our budget would support it, we would all have Windows 8 computers (either Surface Pro or a Desktop with Touch screen).

Surface is a great tablet... i use it for school and personal stuff.

4 Out of 5 stars due to only 1 USB, 2 powered USB ports would have been much better.

I love my Surface pro. I would love it even more it I could find a nice inexpensive messenger bag for it.

This should be a very good tablet/computer when I get used to the operating system

For $1200 this pad is way overpriced for all the things windows 8 is not compatible with.. To view my webcams for my business I have to shut off user account control and reboot the pad. Most all of the tiles on the start screen will not function without user account control running. So I have to turn UAC back on and reboot the pad to get the start screen to function as designed. I use Remote Desktop to run my business computers remotely. Remote Desktop is not easy to turn on in windows 8 and pinch zoom is not available yet with it. It is nearly impossible to read numbers remotely without some sort of magnification. The iPad is cheaper, way more apps are available for the iPad , and the afore mentioned problems are a non-issue with the IPad . Flash is available for surface pro, however, and not for any apple product. Lets face it , there are a lot of applications that still use flash that cannot be viewed on the apple.. Oh yeah, the mouse pad is sub par on the surface pro also.. So I tried the surface pro for three days and took it back..still using my ipad2...and I have a lot of extra cash in my pocket and my apps run without a hitch!

I love it and it's so easy to use. Love that it's light weight and easy to use for school and personal.