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That's not enough for a 'full day' of work, although the promised power cover will provide an extra battery source for the Surface Pro 2 in the future. The Surface Pro 2 will comfortably manage between six and seven hours of mixed usage (the Surface Pro was generally between five and six hours of life on the battery). With the internal hardware Surface Pro 2 has riffed well on the first device - the biggest change is the switch to the Haswell architecture, which offers improved performance and better power efficiency, which all leads to better battery life. If I stick with the Apple comparisons, the Surface Pro 2 is two-thirds the weight of the MacBook Air 13", and a tenth lighter than the MacBook Air 11". In comparison to a modern 'ultrabook' though, Microsoft's hardware is lighter. If you want to do a fun comparison take two iPad Airs, stack them on top of each other, and you pretty much have the size and weight of the Surface Pro 2. The Surface Pro 2 weights 900g (call it 2lb), which is hefty for a tablet.
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The covers do add to the cost of the devices (£99.99 for the Touch Cover 2, and £109.99 for the Type Cover 2), but I don't think anyone looking at the Surface Pro 2 will be looking for a budget machine. While both covers have an almost unforgivably small trackpad area, I found myself using the touchscreen for almost every potential mouse operation.
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It's not full speed on typing, but I can reach around 90% of my normal speed, and it's very easy to touch-type on. My Surface Pro 2 came with the Type Cover 2, which provides a full moveable key set for the keyboard, with 1.5mm of travel in each independently moving key. But for any serious work on the Surface Pro 2 (and this is a device designed for working on) you#re going to need to have a faster input mechanic, and that means something physical. There is an onscreen keyboard, and for short text inputs that's enough. They now sport backlit keys, and in my opinion you really need to have one of these covers to get the most out of any of the Surface devices. The Touch Cover 2 and the Type Cover 2 have also been updated from the first generation covers. The real strength in the covers are the two keyboard options. Microsoft has demoed a 'mixing desk' cover, and are talking about a power cover that will extend the life of the Surface Pro 2. This allows a number of peripherals to be added that double up as a cover over the screen. You also have the magnetic attachments for the various covers that can be attached along the long base edge of the Surface Pro 2.
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You still have the ten point mutli-touch touchscreen dominating the front of the device with fantastic colour reproduction and wide viewing angle, you still have the almost chamfer free diagonal slope away from the screen on the sides of the device, and you still have the smooth back of the device with the full width kickstand. The pressure sensitive Wacom Stylus is still a wonderful artistic tool without a permanent storage home in the hardware, and the tablet-esque power and volume buttons are all in attendance around the spine of the machine.
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The design of the Surface Pro 2 externally is identical to the original Surface Pro 2. It's a flexible device, but that flexibility come at a cost both financially and in ultimate functionality.
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If you are looking for a portable experience the will allow you to check on your life quickly while on the move (email, Facebook, Twitter, a bit of web browsing) but you also need to crank up the computing power (perhaps for video and audio editing, photoshopping, or to work in and IDE to do some coding), the Surface Pro 2 gives you that option. That said, there is a sweet spot where the Surface Pro 2 is absolutely the computer to have with you. They've not answered all of the issues, and as you'll see there are still some blind spots in the Surface Pro 2 that would make me hesitant to offer a general recommendation. Attempts at this sort of inbetweener device have been made before, but in the Surface Pro 2 I feel that Microsoft has successfully answered many of the issues around this form factor. The Surface Pro 2 takes all the compromises that are present in any hardware design (power, portability, input, connectivity, etc) and makes them work together, and in the process addresses the biggest compromise of all. Lessons were learned, new parts were available, and the Surface Pro 2 is now the current unfiltered vision of Microsoft and Windows in 2014. Rather than trust a hardware partner to do that, they have went out and built it themselves.
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I believe Microsoft wanted to have at least one reference device that took their vision of the software and hardware that Windows deserves.