The Surface Pro 3 weighs in at 1.8 pounds without the keyboard (2.4 pounds with keyboard). That’s heavy for a tablet, but very light for a laptop.

The Surface Pro 3 tablet, which comes in three models starting from $799 and costing up to $1,949, features a 12-inch screen, much larger than Apple iPad's 9.7 inches.

The Surface 3 runs the regular version of Windows 8.1, just like the Pro 3. In the past, Microsoft has used a lightweight version called RT in its cheaper tablets.

The Surface Pro 3 tablet, which comes in three models starting from US$799 and costing up to US$1,949, features a 12-inch screen, much larger than Apple iPad’s 9.7 inches. It also comes with access to ...

The Surface Pro 3 will have a screen measuring 12 inches diagonally, up from 10.6 inches in the previous model. The Pro 3 is 32-per-cent thinner and 12-per-cent lighter than October’s Pro 2.

Surface Pro 3 is the thinnest, lightest and largest laptop-tablet hybrid so far. Surface Pro 3 tablets are 2-in-1 devices, which can connect with a keyboard and double as a computer.

The Surface 3 is essentially a shrunk-down Surface Pro 3: it has a 10.8-inch screen, weighs only 622 grams (the Pro 3 is comparatively beefy at 800 grams) and comes with 64 GB or 128 GB internal ...

Panos Panay, corporate vice president with Microsoft’s Surface division, holds the new Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablet computer during a press conference May 20, 2014 in New York.

Microsoft has announced a new Surface Pro 3 tablet at a press event held in New York today (May 20). The PC maker is heralding the 12-inch device as "the tablet that can replace your laptop".

"MS will start the sale of our upgraded Surface-branded tablets, dubbed as the Surface Pro 3, via HiMart and G-Market channels from Aug. 28," MS Korea said in a statement.