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With its latest pricey 4th-generation iPad 4, Apple has one eye on Windows 8 hybrids.

“At $799, this most recent iPad priced exceeding the normal selling price of a laptop ($703), bringing the two squarely into the similar wallet chat,” Glen Yeung said in an exploration note.

Yeung continuous: “Given what we guess to be a 3-quarter glide in 10″ iPad unit auctions, we can’t support but discover a protective part to Apple’s latest iPad.

That safety is fixed in “exasperating to head off the onslaught of Haswell- contains Ultrabooks plus hybrids battered for 2H13 release,” he said, stating to laptop tablet hybrids created on Intel’s future power-efficient Haswell chip due in the 2nd half of this year 2013.

Microsoft’s Outward Pro will be a noticeable member of that group of hybrids. The 128GB model that is accessible with a keyboard cover will be priced at $999 and pack laptop-like concert.

The preliminary version will be accessible on February 9, but Microsoft is certainly planning an upcoming Haswell-based Surface.

Haswell is estimated to stimulate a number of “detachable” designs which unconnected from the base to become a separate tablet.

Recent samples of detachable contain Hewlett-Packard’s Envy x2, Samsung‘s ATIV Smart PC 500T Tablet, Asus’ VivoTab, and Acer’s Iconia W510.