From InfoWorld: Analysts like to describe product advances in terms of “tick” and “tock.” Intel and Apple, in particular, seem to run out ahead with a passel of new features -- the “tick” -- and follow that up a year or so later with incremental improvements: the “tock.”
Microsoft's Surface Pro models have been one tock after another since the original was introduced in early 2013. But today, at Microsoft's gala event in New York, we heard a very loud tick in the form of the Surface Book, a new convertible laptop that corporate vice president for Surface Computing, Panos Panay, proudly unveiled as “the thinnest, most powerful PC ever created.”
The Surface Book could finally make Microsoft a laptop player to be reckoned with. This is one sexy piece of hardware. Think of it as a Surface Pro with goosed performance and a real, hinged, attached keyboard that can be removed easily.
The cutting-edge design of the Surface Book is unique. The 13.5-inch screen can be detached and used as a tablet -- or popped out, rotated 180 degrees, and folded back down over the keyboard. The net result is a flop-over screen like that of the Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro, except that you can also carry the very thin screen all by itself.
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