Microsoft's tablet family has a new head of the table as the company announced the Surface Pro 3 during a New York City event. The device arrives to take away the conflict Microsoft says consumers experience when trying to decide between a laptop and a tablet. In fact, the Surface Pro 3 makes the choice easy as it's billed as a laptop killer.This is the tablet that can replace your laptop, Microsoft's Panos Panay said. The device is designed around thinness at every corner, measuring 9.1mm thin (0.36 inches) and 800 grams (1.76 pounds) in weight. Despite its slight stature, the Surface Pro 3 manages to run with 10% more performance power than the Surface Pro 2, thanks in no small part to the top-end Intel Core i7 processor.Find out how the Surface Pro 3 matches up against the Surface Pro 2 The whopping screen measures 12 inches (38% bigger than the Pro 2's) with a 2160x 1440 pixel count. The aspect ratio is designed to emulate a pad of paper at 3:2, which Panay says is rare for this screen size. The new Surface display has 50% more pixels than the Pro 2.