Microsoft Surface Pro 3: The Real World Road Test

Proclamations that Microsoft’s tablet-laptop hybrid, the Surface Pro 3, does not beat Apple’s popular MacBook Air grow tiresome. Since when is this a zero-sum-game? Are consumers and business people really choosing between one and the other, or is the reality somewhat more nuanced and based, as I suspect, on platform allegiances and desires?

As I noted in my original review of the first Microsoft Surface RT tablet, the device was the right tablet choice for someone who wanted a Windows tablet. On the other hand, there were significant limitations, not the least of which was the fact that the ARM CPU-based device was not running true Windows, or at least it couldn't run all Windows 7-compatible software. Read more...