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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: there’s a new tablet powered by a souped-up mobile processor, with a detachable keyboard and a magnetic stylus. It promises way better battery life than a laptop and runs most of the same apps, with LTE support to always keep you connected, although the size and weight come at the expense of things like a headphone jack. In short, it promises to be that mythical holy grail that can bridge the gap between a phone and a full-fledged laptop.
I’m talking, of course, about Microsoft’s newly announced Surface Pro X. Or is it Apple’s iPad Pro?
But while the two devices sound similar in concept, they represent two very different ideas of what this category of device should be. The iPad Pro is an iOS…