This is Apple definitely responding to high-end pressure from increasingly successful Surfaces in the same way the iPad mini was a response to pressure from the low-end by small Android tablets.<p>This is basically Apple saying &quot;let&#x27;s make a Surface with a bigger screen and do it the Apple way&quot;.<p>It&#x27;s weird seeing Microsoft participate in it.<p>Other than size, there&#x27;s not much that Android tablets need to respond to, there&#x27;s already been large high-end Android tablets with great pen input (no angle detection, but they&#x27;re all Watcom class).<p>What I think was most interesting here was the incessant pitch that this is a productivity device not a media consumption device.<p>For the full experience you&#x27;re looking at:<p>$800 for the pad<p>$100 for the pencil<p>$170 for the keyboardcase<p>And we&#x27;re in low-end laptop territory without necessarily cannibalizing their laptop business, but it fires shots across the bow of also increasingly popular Chromebooks which are around this price point.<p>Edit: for people confused, I meant a low-end Apple laptop not a Windows machine, which are much cheaper. This is priced to barely overlap with the bottom-end. The pricing ensures the two segments are partitioned.