Waiting on a Surface Pro 2

In November I finally realised I could not live with a 64 GB hard drive on my work computer any more.  Juggling space on a daily basis is getting me by, but not leading to a stress free working environment.  I plumped for the surface pro 2 even though it is a bit smaller than I would like.  This was because of all the devices out there this was the one with the most acceptable performance and the best support.

Yesterday I chased its arrival to be told I would not see it until March.  Either they are very popular or there is some form of issue or direction change on the cards with the new Microsoft CEO joining soon.  I decided then to look around again and though the market has expanded all of the tablet computers have the same issue, they seem to have been designed as toys.

This is a legacy of the iPad having become the default concept of a tablet.  Tablets today are great for playing games and reading books but not the sort of device you'd want to work on for any amount of time.  Yet the press keep predicting the decline of the PC.   How can this happen?  Tablet PC's and Apps in general do not yet have the ability to deliver what "Windows Legacy applications" can.  I mean can you see yourself forecasting your business spend on the kind of spreadsheet application you see on a tablet?  Do you really think you could work that way?

Someday soon someone is going to combine a proper pen with a decent sized tablet and realise that this would make a good platform to really work on.  I thought I'd found such a thing in the Dell XPS18 but alas they had not included a proper pen and writing with a rubber tipped one is so unsatisfying.   Until then I guess I hang on and wait for my surface pro 2, soon though my eyes are not going to be good enough to cope with such small writing.....