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Thanks for your comments. I'm glad to hear that you find the SP4 w/dock setup useful and to your liking, even though you had to plow through the "bleeding edge" issues. As you stated, the added value you experience from this setup makes the extra effort (and the risk that issues could...

No, that's not even close to what I'm saying. It would help if you first understood my point before you opined on it. Do you really think you're the first person to come to that conclusion and alert others?! Really? Is that allowed?! Duly noted. Add your comments to the thundering chorus...

Thank you. That's what I've been trying to say all along, but you said it much better. Further, trying to use an SP4 as a desktop is like trying to put a round peg in a square hole, IMO. It's not the right/best tool for the job. Just because MS makes a dock, doesn't mean that it's the best...

Seems to me that you could have just gotten another desktop for work. If I understand your situation correctly, you have dual monitors sitting unused when you're not there. Just add a desktop and you have another computer that someone else can use when you're away. That way you wouldn't have...

What do "OOB" and "for the most part" mean?

Just curious. Since you already have desktops at home and office, what do you need the dock for?

I also do some work when I travel. That's why I installed MS Office. Also, I can remotely control my home and office desktops when travelling. That's the way I like it. Actually, what's really depressing is the poster who spent 8 frustrating months trying to get his SP4 to behave like a...

Why not just buy a simple desktop for the office and use the SP4 for travel? Seems like that would have saved you 8 months of frustration.

Do you realize how nonsensical this statement is?

Are you saying that you never experienced a video driver crash? Or had to resuscitate your SP4 using the 2 finger salute?

It's interesting to note that the above 2 responses refer to "surfaces" or "SP3/SP4/S3." To be clear, I only spoke about the SP4, not the other surface devices. I find it hard to believe that that above 2 posters used their SP4s for mission critical purposes during the period prior to the...

I love my SP4. That's because I only use it for travel and play. The only things I've ever plugged into it are a mouse and a flash drive. I loaded MS Office on it, but that's about it. If I had to use it as my mission critical/daily driver, I would not be a happy camper. It's not reliable...

I have Win 10 on my SP4 and I'm very happy with it. I use my SP4 for travel and recreation. But my home and business desktops have Win 7 and I don't want the upgrade now. I don't want to take the chance of something going wrong. I know that there's only a small risk of that happening, but...

I think they need to get the SP4 right before they launch an SP5.

OK, thanks. Now I get it. So, basically, if you use it smartly, you don't have duplicate files on your SP4. Since I use my SP4 exclusively for travel and recreation, I only have a few small files on it. And I don't use OneDrive, at least not intentionally. But it's nice to be able to...

That's what I thought, too. But it seems like a lot of people around here are saying that it puts a second copy of the files you select on your SP4 and also a copy in the cloud to use as you said.

So, let's say I have a file on my SP4 named ABC.doc. Are you saying that there's a OneDrive folder on my local hard drive that contains a copy of ABC.doc and, therefore, I have 2 copies of ABC.doc on my SP4? If so, why is the extra copy necessary?

I still don't get it. I thought that OneDrive make an extra copy of your local files in the cloud. How does a cloud copy of your local files take up space on your local hard drive?

I'm confused. How does OneDrive use up hard drive space on my SP4?

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