Apple CEO Not Impressed with Microsoft’s Ultimate Laptop: It’s Trying Too Much

While numerous reviewers were upbeat about Apple’s new iPad, there were a few concerns about its potential to supplant the laptop as the computing device of choice for business customers.

So, for now, if you want to get your hands on one before buying one, you need to wait.

Cook also took aim at the new Microsoft Surface Book, which he said “tries too hard to do too much”. It features a 12.9-inch screen, a faster processor than Apple’s other tablets, and it’s compatible with the new Apple Pencil stylus and a keyboard case.

Cook also predicted that when people start using the iPad Pro, they will see that they do not need any other device, save their mobile phones.

The large iPad Pro was released simultaneously in 40 countries, including the U.S., U.K., China and Japan, and according to a press release, will arrive in Apple authorized resellers, Apple retail stores, and select carriers “later this week”. Dennis Moore pointed out on Twitter that the gaps between app icons on the iPad Pro is actually larger than the entire width of an original iPhone or iPhone 3G screenshot.

Apple’s store has been updated this morning, and there’s a new tablet range waiting to be bought.

Here are 7 solid reviews of the iPad Pro. Indeed, the success of Microsoft’s own Surface line suggests that it can be a winning formula when given due care.

Prices for the Surface Pro 4 start at £749 (including the Surface Pen) or £859 (including the Surface Pen and Type Cover). At that point, Microsoft claimed the Surface was the ideal replacement for laptops and tablets, as the device brought the best of both worlds, including a detachable keyboard.

Apparently though, he meant to say “diluted” rather than “deluded”, as Apple later clarified according to the Verge – which makes more sense in the context of the quote.

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Apple’s iPad Pro will go on sale on November 11. The Smart keyboard costs extra $169 and Apple Pencil costs $99. If you consider that, it nearly has the same weight as the Surface Book of Microsoft if the screen is detached.