Plus, the Surface Book's screen detaches to become a laptop on its own. More momentously, Microsoft released its first-ever laptop: The Microsoft Surface Book, a gorgeous $1,499 laptop that the company claims is twice as fast as a MacBook Pro. In just the last couple of months, Microsoft introduced the Surface Pro 4, a svelte device that comes closer than ever before to the promise of a tablet that can replace a laptop. The company is all about the details, even the internals of its computers are beautifully constructed.
Apple spends years working on how its products look.
