I bought one of these, greatly reduced since Surface Pro 2 is now out. 128Gb SSD, Windows 8 Pro (64 bit) and all touch. Needs a keyboard and mice though. And so far Synapse has installed just fine. Hope to use it soon in clinics.
Working well .. printing is just fine. Some of the screen bottom widgets are obscured by the task bar, so that has had to be put onto auto-hide.
I have a Windows 8 box at home. Haven't tried Synapse yet. Microsoft Surface Pro + keyboard = a Windows 8 laptop !
Sure .. the Surface Pro ( and Pro 2 ) are both full featured Windows tablets, and are nice machines. Instant on/off as a result of Windows 8 technology. Surface Pro 2 gives you a much longer battery life .. else little difference. Surface RT - ARM processor, and won't run x86 binaries.
Also windows 8 has Miracast technology so you can wirelessly stream your screen to any TV/monitor with an HDMI input using Netgear's Push2TV. So, you can have a 60 inch display in front of you I was at a meeting and the speaker used a Surface Pro to give his presentation this way while walking around the room
And there seems to be some problems with HL7 import .. not sure why. Need to do some testing on this one. Perhaps a permissions problem. Edit: Nope, it was because I had not configured the HL7 client correctly. Working now.
Thinking of getting a Surface Pro 3. I tried the palm cancelling feature ... worked amazing. Looking at the 256 Gig with 8 Gig RAM / i5. They are all Dual Core (not quad core). Will have to see how my digital notes look on it first.
Just need to accept that once a component fails inside, it's either replace under warranty, or buy another one. They're not repairable.
Let me know if there are any issues. I need to reload Synapse onto mine. I've had the replacement unit back for a month but haven't had time so far.