Microsoft has not only announced one Surface tablet, but a Surface tablet for each of the main varieties of Windows. This includes the Surface for Windows 8 Pro, which is slightly larger and decidedly more Intel-based than its ARM-fueled counterpart for Windows RT.
"We wanted to give Windows 8 its own hardware innovation. Something new, different, a whole new family of computing devices from Microsoft," said Steve Balmer, Microsoft's Chief Executive Officer, said.
Users will receive a higher 1080p resolution from the 10.6-inch ClearType display, but it comes wrapped in a package that's 13.5, thick and weighs 903 grams (compared to just 9.3 mm and 676 grams for the RT). This apparently is not big enough to exclude it from Microsoft's new keyboard-laden covers, however, and it even gets another accessory of its own: a pen with "Palm Block."
"The Surface is a PC. The Surface is a tablet. And the Surface is something new that we think people will absolutely love," Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said at the event, at Milk Studios in Los Angeles.
No price was disclosed.
The Surface Pro will be released 3 months after the Windows 8 Fall 2012 launch.
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