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Hands-on: The Surface Book is a laptop. But it’s also a tablet.

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Almost as soon as Microsoft announced the Surface RT and Surface Pro in 2012, there was an immediate reaction: “OK, that’s sort of nice, I guess, but when will there be a Surface laptop?”

There’s never been any doubt about the Surface line’s build quality, attention to detail, and aesthetics. But for many of us, a tablet with a kickstand and separate keyboard lacks an essential quality: lapability. The Surface Pro 3’s variable-position kickstand and more secure magnetic keyboard attachment meant that the thing could be used on your lap at a pinch, but it never had the stability or convenience of a true laptop with a stiff hinge, and no matter how much Microsoft claimed it to be a laptop replacement, it wasn’t.

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Microsoft offers sweeteners to get enterprises to buy Surface Pro 3

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Microsoft is wooing enterprise IT purchasing execs with a set of enticements it hopes will convince them to buy Surface Pro 3 – “the tablet that can replace your laptop” – to actually replace corporate laptops.

These include an extended warrantee program, a limited-time discount bundle of Surface Pro 3 with accessories and an assurance that accessories businesses buy today will be compatible with later models of Surface Pro.

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Review: Surface Pro 3 isn’t really what enterprises want in a laptop

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There are a lot of good things to say about Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 tablet.

It’s lightweight. It’s got a big, crisp display. It supports any app Windows 7 does plus all the ones designed just for Windows 8.1. It’s got a pen that’s nicely integrated with Office apps.

Microsoft says it’s the tablet that can replace your laptop, and that’s true, although it has some physical shortcomings that laptops don’t. For example, it requires a kickstand to prop it up when it’s in laptop mode, which introduces some problems of its own.

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Surface Pro 3: A great business desktop and a pretty good laptop, too

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Surface Pro 3

Microsoft calls it the tablet that can replace your laptop. The Surface Pro 3, which was announced in May and started shipping in June, comes with a 12-inch touchscreen, a 3:2 aspect ratio and 2160×1440 resolution display, making it a healthy size for note-taking and showing presentations. It comes with a choice of Intel i3, i5 or i7 chips so there’s plenty of processing power, and it supports any apps that run on Windows 7 as well as apps designed just for Windows 8.1. Equipped with a super-thin and light keyboard/cover it seems more like a laptop. Docked with external monitor, keyboard and mouse, it makes a good desktop replacement. Here’s a closer look at the Surface Pro 3.

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