Microsoft Surface Tablet MicrosoftRight now in Los Angele , curiously late in the evening , Microsoft is showing off its very first modern ( read: post-iPad ) tablet . The family will be called the Surface , the same as its conceptually-cool-but-practically-impractical tabletop touch computer . Its actually a very interesting product--the capabilities of a full PC , but thank to Microsoft dual-natured , touch-focused Windows 8 , it works like a regular tablet as well . Heres what we know . The first Surface Microsoft showed is a 10 . 6-inch tablet ( the screen is Gorilla Glass , and i a 16:9 ratio , like laptop screen and Android tablets but unlike the iPad ) , a bit bigger than the 9 . 7-inch iPad , made of magnesium "liquid metal . " This one , made for consumers and more mobile type , will run Windows RT . Itll weigh 1 . 5 pounds , a little more than the new iPad 1 . 44 , though at 9 . 3mm thick , it i a whoppi
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