I am a writer and I also use my laptop for music production in association with an Akai MPC Live. The Surface is fast and very responsive. I have been the target of hacking and the Surface has coped with the attempted intrusion. It is unbelievably light and very very thin. One criticism is that I have to use a bluetooth mouse. For some reason using the touchpad only leaves the Surface open to localised minor hacking - that of course is my opinion. However I had to have 3 Surface exchanged until I tried the mouse to fix the problem. I informed Microsoft security but they want so much information/proof I took it no further. I have had no other problems. Highly recommended.

Purchased this after having a bad experience with Lenovo yoga 530. The battery life is the best and the laptop is of extremely high quality. Only annoying thing is the texture of the keyboard area as it is velvety and gets dirty quite quickly. Reasonable price if you get the education discount.