The teardown - Microsoft surface book 'laptop' [Reviews Consumer Technology]

DO YOU REMEMBER when tablets were marketed as anti-productivity devices? Do you remember when, graphic designers apart, styluses were anathema? Do you remember when a laptop that could be separated from its screen seemed nice but hardly 'disruptive'? This autumn, Apple will release the iPad Pro, but before then Microsoft is refreshing its Surface line-up. The new Surface Book blurs the distinction between tablet and laptop still further, though the emphasis is on the latter. But one thing is consistent across both sets of new products: tablets are now productivity devices. Moreover, while Steve Jobs believed the stylus killed the Newton, smart pens are considered essential for that new market.