I would consider it a necessity for anyone who wants to type on their Surface Pro.

This is a great keyboard

As has already been mentioned, it is a little pricey; It should be about $50

purchased a month ago and very impressed with versatility, but with reasonable PC power to run all application including photo editing. we purchased with docking unit to use with larger monitor for casual photo editing and drafting as well as home tasks such as shopping and banking.

I wish I'd bought one years ago. Excellent performance (as a desktop user, streaming film/music, etc. or if you want to use for programming on the train, etc), light weight and the key board sits at a good angle for typing if you need it.

I work in computer design and have found that although the touch screen helps give a hands on touch to each work the computer itself confronts problems when rendering a 3D video, made on 3D Max. I would suggest investing in the 7i instead of 5i....

Touch Screen

Overheats with heavier programs

While the Microsoft Surface 3 Pro is technically a tablet, Microsoft claims that it can meet the needs of a regular laptop user. When it was announced, it was compared a lot to the MacBook Air, which we then followed up with a comparison of our own .

Advice, go to Amazon and look there, you'll find better offers on it for a much cheaper price. Even with the shipping charges to get it you aren't close to that offered place

Nothing

Price is too high...I bought mine for a lot less on Amazon; It came brand new and saved me a lot of money

When the original Surface Pro launched, no one quite knew how to classify the hybrid. Was it a tablet that was trying to be a laptop? A laptop trying to be a tablet? Well, call us contrarians: We're going to come right out and say the Surface Pro line is neither and doesn't need to be-particularly...

Thin and light; multi-point kickstand; runs cool and quiet

Twitchy touchpad on Type Cover; pen loop accessory is flimsy

The basics Microsoft claims the Surface Pro 3 is "the tablet that can replace your laptop". With a 12-inch screen, it's certainly big enough to back up that boast. But what are its other selling points? And it can it succeed where past Microsoft slates have failed? Let's take a look.

Given its size, you might expect the Surface Pro 3 to be a hulking beast of a machine, but it's actually surprisingly light; The Surface Pro 2 had a 10.6-inch screen and weighed 907g, whereas the 12-inch Pro 3 somehow manages to tip the scales at 800g.

It might be light, but 12 inches is still pretty large, so it's not all that portable; You're going to notice it in your bag; The MacBook Air is still slimmer and lighter, especially when you add the Pro 3's cover.

Microsoft has pitched it's new, bigger tablet fairly and squarely at the laptop market. With Windows now touch-friendly, is this the future of laptops?

Performance on the Surface Pro 3 is excellent. For all general productivity, the core i5 used here is very fast, and because the storage is all ssd, the system is snappy and responsive; it's definitely comparable to the better ultrabooks on the market, and never feels sluggish or slow.