You can call Surface what you want; tablet, notebook, thin/convertable laptop etc. It’s a more desirable machine than an iPad.
The iPad is stuck in the middle now; if you just want to browse/watch movies a $150 android tablet can do it as well. If you need a laptop replacement it can’t do it as well as a Surface.
It’s not an overpriced tweener piece of hardware at the moment. If it ran OS X instead of iOS it might be a different story.
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The Surface is a hybrid computer pretending to be a laptop and a notebook, but not doing either very well. It is overpriced. An iPad at a fraction of the cost can handle functions like browsing/watching movies, same as android tablets. My wife recently bought an iPad Mini for $200 that works great. Can you get a Surface at that cost? No. If you want a laptop, get a Mac Pro. There are various versions of the iPad from low to high cost, depending on how robust you want it to be. The Surface is simply high cost.
The current Microsoft Surface 4 12.3" 2736 x 1824 resolution 128GB (no pen, no keyboard), 9 hours battery use, starts at $799 to $2838 w/512GB.
The current Apple iPad Pro 12.9" 2732-by-2048 Resolution, $899 to $1129 w/256GB and cellular and GPS.
To make the low end REALLY MS Surface useable, you need to add the Keyboard Cover at $129.
You can buy a brand new, full speed, modern iPad for $329. . . or a iPad mini for $249. That's not over-priced.
The Surface Book, maxed with a 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM is $3199.
Max out the MacBook Pro with a 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM and it's only $2899, $300 less expensive, and the Mac comes with an entire suite of software the Microsoft doesn't.
The Microsoft Surface line is far more expensive than the Apple line.