READ WHAT IT SAYS, TexasGator; it's quite simple.
You have to UPGRADE from the M3 processor in the low end MS Surface Pro to an Intel i5 version costing $1299 (now selling for $999 on discount w/4GB of RAM at Microsoft), before it "blows away the iPad." Your $799 and $999 package M3 versions won't cut it. . . and that is what that "Cherry picked" chart was showing. You have to install a 3.0GHz Intel i5 BEFORE your Surface Pro 4 will beat a $599 iPad Pro, or, surprise, even the new 9.7 inch $329 iPad.
There's no "cherry picking" going on here, as there are more bench marks out there that show the same thing.
In fact, the new iPhone 7 and 7 plus with Apple's A10 processors would BEST that 3GHz i5! The iPhone 6s was already out performing the Surface Pro 4 on this benchmark with an A8X in it. The iPad Pro has a two year old A9X. They are all desktop capable processors. . .
” Your $799 and $999 package M3 versions won’t cut it. . . and that is what that “Cherry picked” chart was showing. You have to install a 3.0GHz Intel i5 BEFORE your Surface Pro 4 will beat a $599 iPad Pro, or, surprise, even the new 9.7 inch $329 iPad. “
LOL! The MS surface 4 pro package with I5 is $999.