Microsoft Surface 2: A Tablet With A Serious Identity Problem [Review]

Steve Jobs once described the iPad as, “the intersection between technology and liberal arts.”

For Microsoft’s Surface 2 tablet, the intersection may be at technology and a Master’s of Business Administration.

The problem is that while most people who have gone to college have had at least a bachelors degree in liberal arts (or some other pursuit), only a small portion of those people go on to get an MBA. The Surface 2, like the Surface RT before it, struggles with a problem of identity. Is it a tablet? A notebook? To what exactly do you compare it?

The hardware for the Surface 2 is much improved from the Surface RT. In empirical observations, people that used the Surface 2 marveled at how much faster and more responsive it was to the than the RT. “Wow, it actually works like it is supposed to,” one person said to me.