The initial winner in tablets was Apple, with the iPad.

The beauty of that design win for Apple was that it opened the eyes of humans to the possibilities that tablets could be. Hundreds of thousands of apps were written for the iPad, and people were able to achieve useful things with them

iPad, however, only whetted people’s appetites: they wanted to do more. More than just Twittering and Facebooking.

They wanted to be useful.

Sadly, iPad couldn’t do it for them.

Into the breach stepped Microsoft with the Surface Pro.

Now in the fourth iteration, Surface pro bombed out of the gate, as the market wasn’t ready for it, the device not having been adequately explained or positioned. Don’t get me started on the muddled marketing either! Prancing, infuriatingly young Millennials snap-snapping the kickstand on Surface devices, my ass!

Microsoft learned from their failures, increased the size – to 12.3” – and resolution – to 2736 x 1824 – of the display, made it lighter, and voilà, the SmallBizWindows Tablet of the Year Microsoft Surface Pro 4 is born.

In short order, Microsoft had conquered the space for professional and/or business tablets.

Surface Pro 4 is your ONLY choice when it comes to situations where a tablet will do.

Running Windows, and available with up to 1TB of storage to go with up to Intel Core i7 CPUs, this tablet is built for performance.

And it does perform. Pricey, but really screams.

I like it.

As reviewed last year, this is the best tablet you can buy.

It has earned the SmallBizWindows Tablet of the Year Award.

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