There has NEVER been a tablet with ANY theft lock mechanism that has been produced.... I don't know why you find that so hard to believe and why would MS be any different than these other manufacturers? The ONLY viable option would be to use third party devices like jnjroach posted in his post. although MS is touting the tablet can replace your laptop it's still in effect a TABLET... doesn't mean that you should treat it as a LAPTOP... if you can't live with that then I suggest you buy a laptop
Nonsense. So what if it is a tablet or not? If it's a tablet, that means theft is a non-issue compared to a laptop???
If anything a tablet would be more likely to "walk away" than a laptop when left unattended for short periods of time.
It would only make a difference if it was small enough to keep in your pocket or purse with you all the time, but a Surface is not.
If you don't want to lock your personal Surface you picked up a Best Buy, YOU don't have to. Many corporate environments have requirements demand company devices be locked. So, that would mean Surface docking station users in an office would have to undock the Surface and lock it away every time they go to the restroom unless the plan to take it in there with them.
Microsoft touts it as a laptop, runs a PC OS on it, makes a first party keyboard and makes a laptop-like dock for it unlike competing tablets. They are also targeting business enterprise sales in addition to home users.
Microsoft they say "Apple doesn't make a docking station for iPads so we won't." or "Apple doesn't put a desktop OS in their iPads so we won't" or "Apple doesn't make a keyboard, USB port etc, for iPads, so we won't. They are treating the Surface more like a laptop especially since they discontinued the RT models.
Even though Apple doesn't put a lock slot built-into iPads (can't have a lock slot because it is way to thin for one unlike a Surface device), there are many practical third party solutions for iPads that work without gluing things on to the case and most can be left on all the time without making the device bulky.
http://www.kensington.com/us/us/4481/tablet-security#.VTmk3xz3-iw
http://www.displays2go.com/P-21184/Locking-iPad-Case-with-Security-Lock-is-Low-Profile
http://securtech.com/ipad_locks_ipad_air_locks_tablet_locks.htm
The Surface 3 is still new, so we need to give some time, but the lack of solutions for the somewhat well-selling Surface Pro 3 does not bode well.
Maybe if the Surface 3 is a huge seller and outsells the Surface Pro 3. more vendors will invest R&D into developing a simple to use locking product.
However, Microsoft could have solved this for people who purchased docks by making the Surface lock to the dock. Would have been such a simple and clean solution and would drive more dock sales.
It is asinine that they lock the docking station down, but don't include an option to lock the tablet into the dock.
