For Type Cover users well, for less prolific writers

The shell does basically what it should: it protects the surface from damage, especially if you use the Type Cover much and not when traveling constantly wants transported separately. The material quality outside is fine. The fabric on the inside of turn is a magnet for dust and small particles of dirt and looks somehow never really clean, but that's a matter of taste and does not lead me to the devaluation.

Now comes, at least for me, the big BUT: with the cover I can not write any more clever on the surface! And that's really the main reason to buy a Surface.

For me, the Surface as a block must be flat on the table while writing. That goes with this envelope at best in portrait yet, in landscape mode, but no longer.
Then you have namely the complete cover between itself and the surface are, which is why you only can write at a distance on the device. That's a No. If you open the lid with the equipment it is indeed fairly precisely, but about 5 cm increase and the envelope then acts as a "rocker" on the surface is. This also does not go to write.
If only the surface by 180 ° to rotate, so that therefore the cover is of a way. Nice, but then ever the hand is on the light sensor when writing. So is not also. If the surface is rotated through 180 °, the manufacturer set in the casing, it would in my view ideal for writing, however, would make for use with the Type Cover no longer makes sense.

And here the cat biting its own tail. The shell is good for users who permanently use the Type Cover in their construction and this want to know together with the Surface stashed safely. Who writes much with pen on the surface in landscape mode and the way I use the light sensor, which will be annoyed. Therefore, the envelope for me unfortunately goes back and the search continues.