So it had to repurpose one of them.

Now, the Macalope actually thinks the Surface interesting and could be a very smart move by Microsoft (although reaction from its OEM partners is going to be Thanksgiving-at-John-Edwards's-house kind of interesting). The problem is that there's so much we still don't know about the Surface--price, battery life, keyboard functionality, etc.--that it's kind of hard to judge the device on its merits (or flaws).

Unless you have the rose-colored glasses of these folks, that is! For them, everything's comin' up Ballmer!

For Slate's Farhad Manjoo, it was :

I love the Surface. And that's true even though I know very little about it.