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.