"Lift-off in T-minus 3...2... oh wait—the battery's low."

With the battery dwindling, the Surface Book won't cooperate—forcing us to turn it off before we're, ahem, allowed to disconnect the display.

What separates the Surface Book from the competition is the fact that (usually) you can separate it quickly, with minimal disruption to your work. Other devices tend to require you to power down every time.

Now that we've achieved separation, we might as well reconnect it, but backwards!

Microsoft envisions the Surface Book being used like a "creative canvas" in this orientation.