Nothing more than writing VS and learning CAD or Matlab from you.

How to describe the performance of this machine? ...

Anyway, it must be better than the desktop computer in the school student room. I5-4300U is absolutely enough for students. Just don't play games. You can use the workstation in the laboratory to run big calculations or something. The iPad that Surface can't do can't do it either ~

And my computer is used to it. So you can take any course that uses computers.

The main difference between Surface and iPad is that Surface Pro series basically bid farewell to convenient standing use (at least Pro 1 and 2), while iPad basically bid farewell to convenient sitting use (unless you add a shell).

If you lie down and use them, both of them are inconvenient and bad for your health, which is very undesirable.