Originally Posted by sailingfun

Sooner or later something is going to go wrong on your surface and you're going to have to exchange it out for a loaner. They will send you a new one that you will completely have to reconfigure. I am not willing to risk having to swap out on a few minutes notice. I could post forever on the other issues. The Ipad simply is a far better EFB that works.
Delta often seems to want to do things bigger and better then others. In the end we wind up with a complex system with high failure rates. Our onboard entertainment system being a classic example. The surfaces are failing so fast Delta has run out of them!