Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Plays 6K RAW Video Footage From RED Camera With Ease

Microsoft's Corporate VP of Surface, Panos Panay had his work cut out for him at the company's Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 launch event on Monday. Microsoft needed compelling product demos to showcase their new hardware against the current backdrop of stiff competition of alternative platforms and products from Google and Apple.  So, obviously, the first thing they did was call upon their old friend Intel way back at the design stage, empowering their Surface Pro 2 slate with a dual-core Haswell 4th generation Core i5-4200U processor.
The Surface 2 Pro is essentially a hybrid tablet-notebook device, weighing in at 2 lbs. with a 10.6-inch full HD display and starting at $899 with 64GB of storage, all the way up to $1799 for a 512GB model (all with included Touch Cover 2 and Pen Stylus/Digitizer).  As a result, Microsoft had a bit more thermal headroom in the device to pack in some additional horsepower, so Haswell was a natural choice over say something like Intel's BayTrail Atom platform.  And with Intel's latest HD 4400 series graphics engine on board the Core i5-4200U at their disposal, Microsoft was looking for ways to showcase Surface Pro 2's multimedia performance, so they then called upon some of their other friends at RED Camera.