The VaporMg case is well built, but it’s also brown, and not all that pretty. AppearanceĪs much as Microsoft is saying how incredible the Surface is designed, I’ve played with it and frankly it’s only decent looking. Winner: iPad, which feels better in the hand thanks to the more appropriate 4:3 aspect ratio, smaller size, and lighter weight. The devices are too long, and from my time holding the Surface, that feeling isn’t any different.Īs for whether the screen size is better in 4:3 or 16:9, go down to the display section. At 10.6″, the Surface held upright feels strange just like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and other full-size tablets. The reason for this is weight distribution and relative size. That’s good and all, but in my experience 4:3 for larger tablets like the iPad is more comfortable to hold both one and two handed. Why? To properly view media, a tablet’s main purpose. While Apple has maintained a 4:3 aspect ratio, Microsoft has both exclaimed and shouted atop the mountain top that the Surface will have a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio. On this alone, the size of the iPad is better than the Surface.īut what really sets the two apart is the aspect ratio. The iPad weighs 1.44 lbs compared to 1.48 lbs and 1.99 lbs of the two Surface tablets, and it’s just as thick as the slimmer Surface. The displays vary greatly, but you can read more about that below. The difference between the iPad and Surface in terms of size alone is slight. Scoring as a whole will be between the iPad and Surface, but if just one of the two Surface tablets wins out, the scoring will be weighed by the merits of the two combined versus the iPad. Two completely different models also pose a unique dilemma for comparing the devices. I’ve taken the liberty of going about this comparison differently from our traditional comparisons since there are so many questions surrounding the Surface. The iPad brought tablets out of the shadow of Windows, and now Microsoft is proposing to marry what Apple has done for user interface and design with the traditional computer operating system.īut device to device, which is best? What will win out? There’s no doubt that the Surface tablet will release before the next iPad iteration, so potential buyers will have a choice between the two.

But the same was said about the iPad, and although we see that that claim isn’t exactly true, the iPad is by far the best tablet available. So big, in fact, that it may revolutionize how we use tablet computers altogether. The Microsoft Surface tablet is big news.

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