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Quirky review. Trying to cure your desire for a $1300 laptop by purchasing a $500 hybrid tablet and then declaring that it isn't good as a laptop is quite prescient.

And the nail in the coffin was that other people aren't using IE.

Important and insightful blogging. You really must keep it up.

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Just because it was on sale. The Surface Pro is really a $1029 device ($899 retail price + $129 type cover).

My point about sharing the sale price was at $499 how could I not love this gorgeous little device. And the answer was it did not work for the way I compute.

Since I consider the browser the real client of the future the IE share numbers were a contributor to my final decision to return vs keep.

I do realize when I share things though that I open things up for debate.

Well you aren't comparing apples. The tablet weighs a lot less, has hybrid functionality and is touch screen. If you made the tablet heavier, with a non touch screen and a built in keyboard it would cost about $400 at rrp. So it isn't logical to compare with a $1400 macbook

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