For that price I could get two new iPads (w/ warranty, case, etc). The Surface Pro 3 (w/ warranty, keyboard, Office) ran me about $1,400.
At this point it's the price tag that's the issue for me. I'm still not completely won over by the Surface. I wish it had a way to catalogue files within itself, though. Drawboard has stopped crashing so much and I really enjoy it. I prefer to have a slide/page full-screen and be able to navigate between them using a single button/swipe rather than having to deal with continuous scrolling (like you can do in drawboard/goodreader/any PDF application).
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Thanks everyone for the tips! I figured out how to get OneNote to put everything on one page, but still find navigating through the document to be annoying. Have you tried PDF Annotator, PDF XChange Viewer or Adobe Acrobat (not Adobe Reader)? I do not really like the idea of having to import my PDFs into OneNote for annotation too. Anyone have a good workflow figured out for annotating PDFs (handwritten notes/highlighting) on a Surface? I thought the Surface would definitely work better than an iPad for this purpose, but I'm unable to find anything for it that compares to my GoodReader/Dropbox iPad setup (to which the shortcomings are the lack of digitizer pen and small-ish screen of the iPad for reading text). I've been using Macs for the past 8 years so maybe I'm just in need of some guidance.
Onenote seemed like a good idea, but the only way I can figure out to get PDFs into it is to print from reader into OneNote which causes one page in OneNote per page of the PDF (which isn't so easy to work with/review later). I found an app that seems to be the best reviewed and most powerful (Drawboard PDF) but it keeps crashing on me, especially with large textbook PDFs. The digitizer pen still blows any stylus I've tried with the iPad out of the water, but I can't find a sensible workflow to use on the Surface for notetaking/annotating PDFs. Well I bought a Surface Pro 3 (i5, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD) today and I'm feeling pretty disappointed.