&gt; Try checking how much space the Bing apps take up<p>Space is one concern. The other is that these things tend to be taking up cycles in the background. So there is some power consumption and bandwidth use. Plus, none of them are bug-free and so there are security concerns as well (not to mention the privacy issues).<p>&gt; giving up the touch-screen, tablet and high-end pen functionality that you would get with a Surface Pro<p>If those functions were useful to me, I would be happy with a Surface Pro or Book. I have a Thinkpad Yoga that can do all that stuff and I&#x27;ve never actually used any of it other than to try it.<p>&gt; it seems a little inconsistent to worry about the space taken up by Bing apps while contemplating a solution that requires two whole operating systems<p>The difference is that I have no interest in running any of those applications whereas if I had Mac OS available, there are Mac applications I would run (I&#x27;m a big fan of the Omni Group&#x27;s software). No matter what machine I have, I&#x27;ll be running Linux in a VM anyway, so that VM overhead is acceptable.