With Microsoft's first full-blown PC - the much-anticipated Surface Pro tablet - set to hit the markets, the company is on the verge of bringing forth its radical new device which underscores its biggest effort in the PC arena.

Going by the pre-launch indications about the Microsoft Surface Pro, the tablet will apparently be the most compelling of the tablets to have hit the markets thus far; particularly since it comes with a highly fetching price-tag of $899 for the 64GB model, and $999 for the 128GB model.

The tablet - which has been officially named as the Surface with Windows 8 Pro by Microsoft is a 2-pound device, equipped with an Intel Core i5 processor; a 10.6-inch, HD touchscreen; 4GB of RAM; a solid-state hard drive; a memory-card slot; and USB 3.0 port.

The half-inch-thick Surface Pro tablet is fairly akin in appearance to its already-available counterpart, the $499-priced Surface RT. However, it is much more powerful and speedier than most of the other new desktop computers and laptops to have hit the markets; and takes only about 12 seconds - that is, half the time taken by the Apple iPad - to boot.

Similar to the other Windows 8 systems, the Surface Pro also somewhat overlaps the old and new Windows modes in several ways; running the new Windows 8-style apps, available from Microsoft's app store, on the modern, tiled desktop, and also giving the users the ability to flip to a conventional Windows desktop by tapping the screen.