What a bizarre conclusion at the end. Is it a Macbook alternative? Yes but no, because &quot;Switching ecosystems is dicey business.&quot;<p>Tech journalist&#x27;s reasons for the Surface not being a viable option are getting ridiculous. The SP1 apparently wasn&#x27;t powerful enough as a laptop and didn&#x27;t have the battery of a tablet. The SP2 was powerful enough with a longer battery, but it&#x27;s hard to use full Windows in a touch device. The SP3 is powerful enough, long lasting battery enough, light enough, with a big enough screen to use via touch, but then &quot;lapability&quot; became a metric in articles. Now everything&#x27;s great, but &quot;switching ecosystems is dicey business&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s strange the way goalposts keep getting shifted with each iteration. I switched completely to the MS ecosystem with the SP3 and it was easy.