Friday, January 11, 2013

Hands-on: Microsoft Surface Pro lives up to hype


(Credit: Microsoft)

LAS VEGAS--While it first might have seemed like laptops and PCs took the year off at CES 2013, there have been a number of notable products that caught our eye. One of them wasn't even on the show floor, or at CES at all.


The Microsoft Surface Pro, alongside last year's Windows RT Microsoft Surface, are Microsoft's self-made Windows 8 tablets, designed to attempt to reinvent computing and provide hero products for Windows 8. The Surface Pro was supposed to launch within 90 days of the Surface, which came out on October 26. We're approaching that window now, and I got my first chance to see the Surface Pro for myself this week. Despite my skepticism, you can color me impressed.


Microsoft Surface Pro shrinks the full PC (pictures)


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