I just did something I'm still feeling a bit odd about.

- I really need a newer faster laptop, yet still portable. (Faster than a MacBook Air, lighter than a MacBook Pro.)

- Apple has nothing that satisfies the constraints. (Yet. The rumored new machines sound great.)

- I occasionally need to have a PC around and haven't owned a PC in years.

Ergo, I just walked into a Microsoft Store and purchased a Surface Book. The hardware seems to be solid. The purchasing experience was... not exactly smooth... but that's largely because this was a work purchase, for which I have a tax exempt number, and then my work credit card denied the purchase (because who'd ever, you know, buy something at a Microsoft Store?).

So now I own this thing. (Or, really, now my employer owns this thing.) We'll see how well it works.