A few thoughts after watching a quick recap of the Surface Event:

• The Surface Neo looks great… until they show the keyboard flip up. That keyboard laying on half of a glass slate, with the WonderBar? Wonderbar? The demo where clicking a link in an email opens a browser window on the second screen? Pretty slick.
• Seems like such a small room!
• Panos Panay seems like an intense guy.
• Microsoft using Android… this really is a different Microsoft. Making their own hardware was quite a leap, their Office support for other operating systems was an evolution… and now, selling hardware running something other than windows? Wow.
• Surface Earbuds look utterly ridiculous.
• The Surface Pro was already an enviable device… I suspect the larger model is still not lap friendly, though. The latest IPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard Cover, by contrast, is perfectly usable in the lap. (iPadOS’s mouse support, a welcome new feature, still falls way behind.)
• Nice job calling out the power of the Ice Lake processors in comparison to the MacBook Air’s proc in the Surface Laptop. I still wouldn’t want one, though.