The Microsoft Surface Pro Proves That The PC Is Back

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I come bearing glad tidings. After decades of OEM malaise, a constant parroting of the speeds and feeds mantra, and an aesthetic that was formulated in the back room of a dingy Staples office supply store, the PC is really back. In short, the Surface Pro is so good that it could drive Windows 8 adoption with enough force to make people reconsider Microsoft’s odd new OS. Microsoft bet the farm on a new paradigm and it needs a champion. Surface Pro is the right hardware for the job. I haven’t been a Surface apologist and, although I’ve seen Windows 8 as more of a success than a failure, no hardware has truly made me see the value of the platform until this model Surface. But enough effusive praise, let’s look at the hardware. Back in November I noted that Microsoft launched the Surface RT long before the platform was stable or even interesting. The RT, as you’ll remember, runs a quad-core Cortex-A9 ARM chip clocked at 1.3 GHz. It’s not awful, but it’s not great, either. This model attempts to right those wrongs by turning the Surface from a “tablet” device into a what essentially amounts to a Windows laptop. This is an important distinction. The Surface isn’t supposed to be a tablet you drop on the coffee table and use when you want to look up something on IMDB. It’s a powerful computer with enough speed and graphics chops to give any other manufacturer’s laptop a run for its money. Previous Windows tablets have been hampered by a strange and messy amalgam of interfaces, pen input, and a focus on the slate form factor. This device, on the other hand, is a real hybrid – a laptop that is also a tablet that is also a media consumption device. You will use it just like you use a laptop whereas, by definition, the hobbled RT version of the Surface is meant to be used as a tablet. In examining the Surface Pro we must remember that, physically, the Pro is essentially the same device as the Surface RT. It is very slightly thicker at exactly a half inch versus .37 inches for the RT. It is also a half a pound heavier than the 1.5 pound RT. Click to enlarge. The system runs an Intel dual-core 1.7GHz Core i5 chip and comes with 64 or 128 GB of

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