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Starting at $499, it’s the closest thing Microsoft has to a direct iPad competitor.Īnd then there’s Surface Windows 8 Pro, which goes on sale at the Microsoft Store, Best Buy, and elsewhere on Feb. Technically speaking, however, it isn’t a Windows 8 machine: it uses a power-efficient ARM processor and a special version of Windows called Windows RT that only runs new programs designed for the touch-friendly “modern” interface, not all the apps written for conventional PCs. The first version, Surface Windows RT, shipped in October, simultaneously with Windows 8. And for the first time, the company decided to show us exactly what it thinks a modern PC-tablet hybrid should be by designing and selling its own Windows computer, Surface.Įxcept it didn’t come up with one Surface - it built two of them. Its touch-centric new operating system, Windows 8, is largely devoted to answering it. Microsoft, not surprisingly, has been spending a lot of time mulling over that question in recent years. They look similar, but they're quite different to use.Follow do you reinvent the PC for the tablet era? The biggest difference between the Surface Pro and the Surface Laptop comes in the keyboards. The Surface Pro's panel gets brighter, while the Surface Laptop's screen is bigger. The Surface Pro reached 398 nits and covered 140 percent of the color gamut.

In our testing, the Surface Laptop registered 361 nits of brightness on our light meter and covered 135 percent of the sRGB color gamut. The Surface Laptop has a 13.5-inch touch screen with 2256 x 1504 pixels. The Surface Pro sports a smaller, 12.3-inch 2736 x 1827 "PixelSense" display with a 3:2 aspect ratio. The 2-in-1 has a means for expandable storage that the Surface Laptop doesn't offer. Neither uses USB Type-C for charging or data, which is a noticeable omission for devices you'll likely be keeping for a few years as USB-C accessories become more popular. Perhaps what's more notable is what isn't on Microsoft's devices.