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CNET News - Microsoft reveals thinner, faster Surface Pro 3 tablet

2014-05-20
ladies and gentlemen this is the tablet that can replace your laptop surface pro 3 let's take a quick look at that look at how thin it is so as a point of reference the best way to kind of look at this device to start is to let's use surface pro 2 because you can just kind of see the comparison surface pro 2 is packs a ton of punch it has all the performance that you needed in your full laptop and as a performant as anything on market we then took that product we took that exact same performance increased it pushed it from the 10.6 millimeters that started at and pushed it down to the 9.1 millimeters you see onstage pretty incredible we've grown it to a 12 inch diagonal now I want to explain that to you really quick pushing it to 12 inches was critical if we want to do more if we want to help people be more if we want to be more productive sitting right in between the tablet in the laptop and getting to the point where you can replace your laptop this is a critical critical element 12 inches it is a beautiful screen it's a three by two aspect ratio which we'll talk about later it's something that hasn't really been done before in this size it's a 20 160 x 1440 display we call it pixel free it is the same ClearType technology that you've seen in surface pro 2 it's optically bonded it has the highest contrast ratios in the industry critical productivity not a sexy word I totally get it but to be more productive to help yourself do more to get more done the higher those ratios are the less eye strain you have I know it's subtle but it matters it just means you get less tired that's super important as much as we designed in thinness we designed in lightness so important to understand the best way to really get a feel is to hold it the second best way is to kind of show it so let me do that really quick i'll put the surface here i'm going to grab this macbook here and i just want you to look at that it's very important to understand yeah kind of cool here it is this product's a great product of course and the macbook i totally understand why it's being used but it is best in class when it comes to thinness and lightness there is no debate now we have a 12 inch screen I want to compare it to the 13 inch for a reason on our 12 inch screen because of the beautiful screen and all of the rendering and the work of Windows to optimize it with this screen when you pick it up you will look at it it will feel great the reason it will feel great is because we have optimized to the scaling of Windows perfectly on this 12 inch screen you get six percent more content than on this 13 inch screen that is a factor of the ratio of three by two as well as the scaling it is gorgeous
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