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"  Microsoft Corporate Vice President Panos Panay introduces the Surface Pro 3 at an NYC press event on Tuesday. &amp;quot;It starts with dreaming the impossible,&amp;quot; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said earlier today at the company&amp;#039;s Surface press event at NYC. &amp;quot;Can we design and build a device that takes the best of the tablet and the laptop?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s a dream that PC OEMs have been promising consumers ever since tablets hit the market more than five years ago, and it&amp;#039;s a dream that, despite amazing technology and innovation, remains unrealized. Microsoft thinks it has found the solution with the all-new Surface Pro 3. Microsoft, under the leadership of then-CEO Steve Ballmer, introduced the Surface family of tablet/laptop hybrids in the summer of 2012, and since then, perfecting the hardware/software formula for the company&amp;#039;s quirky device has been a long and sometimes bumpy ride. (For instance, the letters &amp;quot;RT&amp;quot; were never uttered at today&amp;#039;s event).       But Microsoft&amp;#039;s new Surface Pro 3 has no supporter as passionate as corporate vice president Panos Panay, who revealed the device and talked specifics with tech journalists today. &amp;quot;Three years ago, there were a bunch of people in a room like this that were writing stories, and a lot of those stories were about tablets\u2014they&amp;#039;re coming and they&amp;#039;re going kill the laptop and change everything,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;What happened? Ninety-six percent of you who have tablets in your bag are also carrying laptops...We&amp;#039;re going to take that conflict away. We have to remove it.&amp;quot; The Surface Pro 3 is similar to what&amp;#039;s come before it. It has the same metal body with brightly colored keyboard options. But it&amp;#039;s the attention to detail, the upgrades to hardware, and the inclusion of tailor-fitted software that made the device&amp;#039;s unveiling earlier today an impressive one.  This is a device to consume as well as create media without making compromises. Encased in a magnesium frame and armed with the full version of MS Windows 8.1 Pro, the Intel-powered hybrid is unbelievably thin with a killer 12-inch screen, and weighs lighter than a MacBook Air. The device includes an upgraded kickstand, which bends in ways that would make a gymnast jealous. Plus, you can connect your peripherals via USB 3.0, microSD card reader, and Mini DisplayPort. With the slate scaling up to 12 inches, a crop of all new accessories are ready at launch, including a docking station that turns the tablet into a full-blown desktop and a lighter, thinner keyboard with a (much needed) redesigned trackpad and magnetic seal. Microsoft not only upgraded the hardware in the new Surface but is working closely with software companies such as Adobe to give professional artists the freedom to create anywhere. With all the muscle of a dedicated graphic workstation, graphic experts will be glad to hear the new Surface Pro 3&amp;#039;s stylus\u2014correction pen\u2014 feels likes traditional pen and paper, which means no latency, parallaxing, or slow drag.  With a familiar &amp;quot;click,&amp;quot; the pen&amp;#039;s top button opens a blank OneNote document capturing ideas that are instantly stored to OneDrive. This is just one example of Microsoft&amp;#039;s attempt to bring together its collection of software into a cohesive user experience.  The five models of the Surface Pro 3 are available for presale starting tomorrow. A low-end Surface will cost $799 for Intel Core i3 with 64GB, but if you have deep pockets, you&amp;#039;ll be shelling out at least $1949 for Intel Core i7 with 512GB. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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