Assuming this is a serious post and you are not someone MS is paying to promote their products. I can think of a few issues here:
1) Tablets are not the best devices for office productivity. If you want to get a lot of writing done, a laptop is far better.
2) The surface is unlikely to be very useable on the plane, on your lap as the keyboard is too flexible. Typing for long periods of time on a touch screen is not fun.
This is the problem with the surface, pretty much it's only advantage over the iPad is that it has Office. But Office on a tablet is not the best way to get work done, a ultra book is a much better option. Now there are some tasks that can be performed better or just as good on a tablet, but then they will be better on the iPad because of the greater number of quality apps.
This is a typical post of a non-typical scenario.
The average person focuses on office productivity at a desk (where the best device is a desktop, not a laptop), and does lightweight work/entertainment when travelling (where the average users LTE & GPS smart phone is typically more equipped than your average tablet).
But the bigger issue is that these activities are ideally not de-coupled. So if I want to find an old spreadsheet while I'm travelling, grab some number and put it into a powerpoint, and then present it for an hour, it's not going to work well on the phone or tablet. You can gimp something together, for sure, but generally that 1 hour presentation will require you to bring two devices.
Similarly, on the entertainment side, if you have mixed platforms at home, or a media harddrive with different files types on it, an ipad can be utterly useless to access that content on a plane. It's also pretty useless if you want to organize your vacation photos on a train ride/bus and don't have wifi. Once again, a pretty common scenario and while you can gimp solutions, your would ideally do these things on two different devices.
If you're on the road a lot and always have to do heavy work on the road, an ultrabook, mba or rmbp will probably work better. But for the average worker, I think the surface gives you a good, flexible experience in most usage scenarios without you having to figure out which accessories you need to bring and how to organize your files. There is the issue around the interface of windows 8, but at the end of the day, you're not trying to figure out how to get your ipad to play the media file from the new camera you bought for your vacation.
The other thing is that the lack of apps is nonsense when referring to the surface pro. It offers access the best of breed of the original "killer aps" - spreadsheets, word processing and later browsers.
For the surface 2 and rt though, the description is correct, but it really isn't about the numbers. It's about the top apps. In windows, the apps can in some occasions provide for a much better experience, for example Vlc and multiple video formats.
I think people are in for a surprise in the next quarter. A lot of companies have been looking at these things but, unlike consumer purchases, corporate purchasing can be a bit drawn out.
