Surface Pro 2 is the device I've been waiting for since before Surface Pro 1 even released. The only reason I didn't get one was battery life and the fact that I knew Haswell was on the horizon. Surface Pro form factor, Haswell, convergence, jizz.
This device isn't competing with Android 7" tabs. If you're happy reading books, watching videos, and playing Angry Birds on your tablet obviously you don't want one of these. I like my 7" android tab, but I want something I can play Civ or EQ on, etc. Sure, you wouldn't want to use photoshop on this in tablet form for an extended period of time. For a short period of time, maybe you want to do something quick and dirty? Sure. But the real power of this thing is as a super portable device you can dock. Powers up to 3840 x 2160 resolution when docked! You can use this as a legit PC on a desktop depending on your needs, and then when you need to get up and go somewhere, you can continue it on the smaller screen. Sure you can do the same thing on an ultrabook, but they aren't as portable.
That's the point, this is competing with ultrabooks and iPads. The big iPad is really the market that SHOULD be getting squeezed out imo. The only reason it isn't is because most people don't know wtf they're buying. The majority of the buying public probably thinks the iPad is a superior device to the surface pro because they know no better. The large iPad does a fraction of what the Surface Pro does for not that much less $, and does exactly what similarly-sized Android tabs do for damn near twice the money. It doesn't really have a place, but all the ignorant public knows is that Apple and iPad are the best (and of course there's the app-selection for anybody that thinks 100,000 shitty games mean something).
That's not to say Surface Pro 2 will succeed. It's up to Microsoft marketing to make people understand what it can do. Surface Pro 1 didn't "fail" because the device sucked, it didn't do so well because most buyers don't really understand what it can do. Surface RT really muddled things up in that regard and was a terrible decision from the get-go. I saw it then, and I say it even more so now because I really think Surface RT has hurt Surface Pro sales with all the confusion it caused. Not even sure why they went another round with Surface RT. I guess it's all in the hopes of staying in the lower end "consumption tablet" market, where nobody outside Apple is making money on hardware, in order to maybe make some money down the line in their app store. But ideally to me, the next round of Surfaces will have two varieties: Core powered, and Bay Trail powered, both running full blown Windows 8.1 or whatever follows. No confusion on what apps / programs may be run on either, just a more powerful, more expensive version, and a cheaper, more efficient version.
