Unfortunately, this is the kind of thing we get to read a lot of around here at ZDNet lately. A lot of complaints, not just about the Surface by any means, but little to no explanation of how you could improve upon things in a rational way that wouldnt skyrocket price or significantly compromise the design in some other important way.

Articles like this just reek of one of two possibilities. Either the writer dosnt care enough either way to properly inform readers if the product they are looking at has better alternatives to its design and for what reasons, as in how its done better on a very similar product elsewhere, or this is as good as it gets for this kind of product and the writer is just sour grapes over the product and has their own motives for being negative.

To illustrate the problem, here is how the article perhaps could have been written but wasnt, and as a result, we dont know much important about the actual findings of the writer:

To open the device, youll need to use a heat gun, hair dryer, or other method to heat the adhesive tape and release the panel. This is a slow, tedious process
And for all we know???.
Unfortunately, when trying to fit as much modern technology into a package this small there are not any better lightweight cost effective methods of sealing such a thing, so this is the best thing they could have done???.

But Microsoft went a little crazy with the screws. There are dozens of them???
And for all we know???
But once one really considers how the screw placements were decided, its pretty clear it was the right way to do things, and as we said, a lot better then glue..

Unfortunately, theres so much glue holding it (the battery)to the back cover, thats its difficult to remove.
And for all we know???
But this is the way things have to be done in this tight of quarters when you want a replaceable battery, and you also want a design thats better safe than sorry, again, well thought out???

But as Jason Hiner wrote in his TechRepublic review, the Surface Pro doesnt quite stand out enough at either function.(either a laptop or a tablet)
And for all we know???
But when you want a tablet that can actually perform much like a laptop, there is no other product on Earth that does it quite as well as a Surface pro, so despite its imperfections, for a product of its kind???its perfect as there is, and will probably be for some time.

Ummm???hold it a second, we do know the Surface Pro is the only tablet that performs like a laptop. As I said, its easy to leave things out when whats left out isnt what you want the public to think about.