[nilkn]

I'm in the same boat. I don't mind the Windows UI, but without a proper *nix environment I just can't justify spending the money on a Surface Pro. I currently have both a MacBook and an iPad and I really don't like carrying them both around. Having a laptop/tablet hybrid makes perfect sense to me, but only if it can run the sort of OS that I need.

I can see the Surface being a really awesome device for business managers outside of the technology industry, where Windows and MS Office are still extremely widespread. As a programmer though whose workflow is deeply Unix-y, it just wouldn't work.