These look ok but if you're able to replace a Surface Pro with an Android tablet then you aren't doing anything that warranted the Surface Pro in the first place so acting surprised that a ~$500 tablet could accomplish it is pretty silly. Frankly you should be more surprised that it took so long for a company to make a device like this. Hell, I think its crazy that the Pixel tablet doesn't come with a decent stylus and that the only way it would have made sense is if it was a ChromeOS/Android hybrid. Personally I've been wondering why we didn't see Apple make the iPad come with a digitizer from the start and much better interoperability between iOS and OSX
This device epitomizes why Android tablets have largely failed and why iPad sales have stagnated. Its a mix of good stylus input and straddling smartphones/PCs that makes this form factor. Its so blatantly obvious, and most people seemed to see it when Microsoft was absolutely excoriated for it on their crappy UMPCs they tried ~10 years ago. Yet somehow people rarely ever, in fact often defended Apple and Google deliberately not doing it while also criticizing Microsoft for the Surface line for trying to (and why despite everyone saying how stupid it was, the Surface line has actually turned into a success for Microsoft and even effectively set the tone as 2-in-1s became popular). Its another one of those ways that I've found even tech-minded people can be completely baffling in their hatred for some things that are often based on nonsense (I'm not saying there haven't been valid criticisms, but generally those aren't even brought up, just blanket "that's stupid, Microsoft is stupid for even trying, Apple and Google should stay away from it!" mentality that I've seen). I always thought the natural progression of netbooks would be into that. But much like how it felt that mobile OSes effectively set back a lot of software (especially web development) back 15-20 years as we waited for them to mature to the point of real feasibility, I just shook my head as companies made weird half-baked stuff (that often would have some initial success but fade fairly quickly or at least stagnate) and then wondered why they couldn't get things going.
And for the person saying (sorry for some reason kept getting errors when trying to quote) that the Surface Pen doesn't work like they want, that's both intentional (if you wanted it to just be a simple capacitive stylus, you have tons of options there) and I'm reasonably sure you could tweak it to function more like you want. I never had too much issue web browsing (with Firefox, which I believe Edge has some tweaks to make it more suitable for the pen), my only real problem was the right click, since it was sensitive enough that any stylus change screwed it up, but then I think you could set the side button as that (might've been that way).
I can't recall, but has Google officially said they're basically working to sorta merge ChromeOS and Android? Because that's a necessary step or else this will end up like the Note and those early Android tablets with the keyboards, ok but too halfbaked to evolve and coupled with the wonky way Google handles software development (even if Google does say they're integrating them to each other, we'll probably get announcement 2-3 years later that they're splitting them and deprecating one, only to get another announcement 2-3 years after that saying they're releasing an entirely new OS that's completely from the ground up different, but we'll have to wait a while for feature parity to either one), will get passed on as people just stick to Chromebooks and Android phones.
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