Having second thoughts about the SP2 after hearing these mixed reviews. I would be getting this to replace my work desktop (again, would have a touchscreen screen and the docking station with the SP2) so that I could also have the availability of a device that would be laptop/tablet "like" yet also the power of a desktop. Still seems like way too many glitches, although some apparently have had minimal issues. I don't want an experiment for my primary work computer. That's fine for home use, but not for a work computer. Grrrrr, was really hoping this was going to be the perfect device for me.
Every computers has it's share of problem. There isn't a perfect computer.
My laptop, a 2000$ Business class flag ship product, has a sucky touchpad, god awful onboard sound, that doesn't comprehend mid range and bass, tiny sounding speaker, used DDR2 GPU memory for the Quadro, and down clock it to 500MHz, instead of what the GPU was designed to come with: 700MHz DDR3, which the larger laptop version has (came after), people complained about paint chipping:
if you didn't get the backlight keyboard option, the keyboard was flexing, and the pads are too low so the frame of the monitor touches the palm rest and over time scratches the plastic. The drivers for the touchpad, makes the keyboard and touchpad not respond for 2 seconds, and takes time to load. It loads at the time where you enter your password, so either you miss enter you password, or you wait until you think it's loaded. It's a serious pain.
It's the hugely popular, a bit over 5 years ago, Dell Latitude E6400. My laptop doesn't have any of these reported issues, expect the drivers, and the lower pad, which I had to mod to fix it (replaced with larger pads, was hard to make them professional looking like it came with the system, and not a half *** job).
You might say: well this laptop sucks, NEXT. no... because they are worse, and today there is still issues.
For example the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga, uses a PWM to control the backlight, meaning that for those sensitive to flickering, you sense the screen flickering. Most people that have headaches using their computer after long perdio of time and don't know why, is because they use a monitor that uses a PWM to control the backlight and not an actually, more expensive to implement, dimming circuit. The flickering is something that you don't see, but you sense it, and you have a headache after. The pen is tiny and doesn't have eraser feature, despite using Wacom technology, I have read reports of touchpad no longer working, and the hinge getting stuck. Additional issues. That is just at the surface level. I don't know the rest. I am sure it has more issues.
At the time HP used a horrible heatsink for many of it's last gen Core 2 Duo with Intel integrated graphics, leading the Intel GPU on the chipset to overheat, and throttling the entire system down to unusable state. Reviews didn't catch the issue. HP ignored the problem for the longest time, and only offered warranty replacement heatsink with a larger one, for those who ask, and are under warranty. (ie: if you took the basic 1 year warranty, you were out of luck).
The Dell Venue Pro 8 and 11 has a pen that simply doesn't work, it randomly click non stop as you come somewhat close to the screen, and is simply impossible to use. The fanless design suggest, for the Pro 11 with Core i5 option, that it might leads to throttling due to high eat under heavy usage under a long time. Not great for those who do demanding work.
There is no perfect system. Any system you look at, will have it's share of manufacture issues (the more popular ones will make you read more on it, as more are produced), and it's own issues. Personally, I prefer Microsoft Surface Pro 2 issues, as they are all software related. It's fixable.
), nice email reader/writer and all around "home" computer. 
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