That's funny, but I have to admit, not very accurate. Up until last year, I was a big Apple guy for several years. Had an iPhone until Apple ruined it with the bloated iOS 4, had an iPad until they ruined that with iOS 5, and up until a couple of months ago, I had a MacBook Pro, too. When Apple broke its ability to run Windows 8 as a dual boot in Boot camp with BC 5.0 (doesn't support Win8 on the 13" 2010 MacBook pro, and they then had the gall to lie to me and say Windows 8 requires "more than 8GB of RAM" when I told them my MBP actually HAD 8GB), I decided enough was enough, and traded my MBP for a Surface Pro 128GB. What a great decision that was.
To begin, the Surface Pro is far lighter and a bit thinner than the MBP, while being more powerful. The inclusion of a fast SSD really helps (my Surface Pro boots from cold to login screen in about 4-5 seconds). Using it at home I can connect it to my 23" full HD monitor for "big computer" work while the start screen serves as a sort of "dashboard" keeping me up to date on communications and important info (appointments, weather, news, etc) while I work. When I'm mobile, it's quick and easy to break it out for taking notes (either by typing or drawing, depending on my needs, or even recording audio or video if appropriate, though those are a rarity). My documents all sync seamlessly to SkyDrive, so even if I'm sans Surface, I still can get my stuff from any PC or Mac connected to the internet, and edit my documents right there in the browser, no need to download.
When it's "dicking around with a tablet" time, I either fold back my keyboard or tear it off completely and set it aside. Now, clearly the Win8 app store doesn't have as many apps as the iPad section of the iOS app store, but it's coming along nicely--about 115,000 apps as of today. Not too shabby for a store that's barely 10 months old (by comparison, it took iPad 453 days to reach 100,000 apps, and as cool as it was to run iPhone apps on the iPad, which I did lots of, they look and work *terrible* when double sized for the bigger screen), and it's only getting bigger, faster. I read a few days ago that Windows 8 PC's have now outsold every Mac OSX computer ever sold. Any OS that can do that in 10 short months isn't going to disappear any time soon. These devices are only going to get better (and before you go "blah blah, Battery life!", let me tell you: the 4 hour battery life story is a complete myth. I get 7 hours *all the time* with a few simple tweaks:
http://www.allthatnerdystuff.com/2013/02/25/how-to-optimize-microsoft-surface-pro-battery-life/ ), and from the leaks we've seen lately, Windows tablets are not only getting better starting this fall with 8.1, they're also getting more powerful and *cheaper*. Some 10" tablets are already announced at $399 for a 64GB model with a quad core processor and keyboard dock included. Some 8" tablets are announced at only $250. That's pretty darn good. I used to tote around an iPad and MacBook Pro; now I just bring a Surface Pro and my phone.
I'm not going to bash anyone's choice of what tablet to use, but come on--let's be honest here: Microsoft's tablet OS offers a lot of bang for the buck, and with the new generation of intel and ARM powered tablets just around the corner at great prices with huge software libraries and ridiculously deep compatibility, they're going to start making some serious inroads. If you can trade in a 2 year old iPad 2 for $200 towards a $349 Surface RT or some other Windows 8 tablet in the "less than $500 range", there are a lot of very good reasons to do so.
and you'd know the above if you weren't a die hard apple enthusiast. Ice cream bars don't gain functionality either yet we buy more than one a year, most of us. But again, we aren't talking about ice cream either. I would suggest you learn a bit of logic before pretending to be an expert on the subject.
