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Awesome. Yeah, I think I'm going to do just that today.

I've got an ipad, which I love for a lot of things, but even with the various pens/stylii, the writing experience is pretty bad, for me.

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The one gotcha, especially if you go for a heavily discounted Surface Pro 1, is battery life when compared to the likes of an iPad. If you can deal with that, the Surface Pros are fantastic devices.

I figured that might be the case. If I got one I'd go with the Surface Pro 2, more than likely.

I also plan on keeping the iPad around. lstamour mentioned this in another post, but weight-wise, I'm assuming I'll still prefer it for reading pdf's and such. That's actually the main reason I got an iPad to begin with. I wanted to be able to read tech books, pdf's, papers, etc on something electronic and iPad beat everything else I tried.

Same here. Even just the faster processor, and the responsiveness while drawing that comes with that, makes a big difference.

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