I confess that while I've played around with using it in tablet mode, I haven't done much in this configuration -- it's nice to know it's there, and I plan to play with it more and get used to using it this way too; 5) the battery gives many hours of working time per charge; 6) I'm not a fan of touchpads, and was happy to find that I can just hit F7 to disable it (and it remembers that decision when I restart!) and use my wireless trackball as a pointing device; 7) best for last -- I LOVE all the ports!