My enterprise has both the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 but frankly I do not see a compelling reason for the Pro 2. Its powerful, more so then, say, a Dell Venue 11 Pro but all that power is behind such a small screen. And as far as a tablet it just stinks with its weight, thickness, etc.
If the Pro had everything that made the Pro great and then also had a 12" screen and the same thinness, weight, battery, etc of the S-GNP it would be just right.

This device seems pretty good. In order for Apple to compete they must come up with the multitasking and some sort of iStyle (stylus) that makes iOS a better experience than just IOS7. I commend Samsung for trying something different. and yes i will also want to say that both the Surface 2 and Surface Pro to and I did not seen a compelling reason for the Pro 2.

I think that is a very good comparison. It was very informative and fair; IMO.

Comparing the diagonal measurements doesn't do justice to the Samsung's size. In display area, the Samsung is larger by 39 percent. From http://www.sven.de/dpi/ :
Pro 2: Display size: 10.35" × 6.47" = 66.89in² (26.28cm × 16.42cm = 431.58cm²) at 247.45 PPI, 0.1026mm dot pitch, 61231 PPI²
Surface: Display size: 9.24" × 5.2" = 48.01in² (23.47cm × 13.2cm = 309.75cm²) at 207.82 PPI, 0.1222mm dot pitch, 43190 PPI²

I have a dell venue pro 11. I bought a keyboard dock and I have 17 hours of battery life. I didn't have to pay for Microsoft office. Including the Keyboard it was $624 and it would have been $499 without it. It is hard to imagine I would be any happier with either of the above.

I went to Best Buy with the intent to buy that Samsung Note Pro but esthetics matter to me and, with hands on, the edge treatment of this and other Samsung devices is so butt ugly retro and poorly finished that it completely put me off and I left without it. I want to use my next device a lot and seeing that design abomination a lot on something I want to use for pleasure just won't work for me. Their excellent specs will be matched soon enough for me by someone who understands design and the importance of it. I'll wait.

Comments about "trying out the note pro" at Best Buy piss me off. I'm a Samsung Experience Consultant in the US and I know FOR A FACT that Best Buy does not carry this product in stores OR online for that matter. Don't dis a product before you actually use it, jackass.

@DonGateley,
LOL, as Vince stated, the Samsung Note Pro is not even available in US stores yet. Yet another Apple fanboy using the old material-not-up-to-standard rubbish and the supposed lack of design. What's funny is that I see wonderful designs everyday for products that top Apple styling/design. People really need to wakeup and look around at the world's designers have to offer.
Back to the subject of this article, both my wife and I are very interested in the Note Pro 12.2 and will likely purchase at least one. Why? For me, the stylus; for my wife, the screen size.

Indeed I confused it with the Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition that Best Buy does carry. Honest error. Does this one look any better than that one Mr. Samsung?
FWIW, fanboy, I've got exactly one Apple anything, a used iPod Touch 4G to run a single app. Gotta say, however, that it makes a remarkable professional quality multi-track stereo recorder with the right add-on hardware/software and microphone(s). Battery runs down way too fast though.

Surface Pro blows Samsung Galaxy Note Pro away. Surface Pro runs a full blown x86_64 system with an intel chip whereas The Samsung Galaxy Note is running a mobile system with a Mobile processor. The x86_64 i5 architecture is way more powerful than any ARM processor, which is in the Galaxy Note Pro. I can do everything in the world on a Surface Pro, that includes building apps for the Galaxy Note Pro and building apps for Surface and Windows Desktops. I can even create programs for Linux. Yep, I can even use Visual Studio. Also I can program for embedded systems like Arduino boards. With the Surface Pro, the only limitation is your imagination but with the Galaxy Note a user is limited and there are all types of obstacles in your way compared to the Surface Pro. On that note, since I am an advanced user, I would chose Surface Pro all day long.
Now that is out the way, these two system should not even be compared. One is mobile(Samsung Galaxy Note) and the other is meant to be mobile but to replace your laptop or desktop at home and to be able to do everything a person can imagine, which that is the Surface Pro.
Samsung Galaxy Note Pro vs Surface RT 2 is a better comparison.