Microsoft Surface 2: The Tablet World’s Powerful, Odd Duckling

The Surface 2 is an attractive, solid, highly usable mobile device that remains, unfortunately, caught between two worlds. And that’s not a place you want to put tablet consumers.

Arriving roughly a year after Microsoft’s first major foray into the consumer tablet market, the Surface 2 delivers on most of its promises. It's marginally lighter and thinner than the original. It’s faster, though it’s hard to see that in action unless you play, say, a graphically intense game. It’s got great battery life and has a brilliantly sharp screen with some of the lowest reflectance I’ve seen on a tablet since the Read more...