Apple and Microsoft have both announced new computers this week built for professionals, and while the companies’ hardware may be very different, the way they’re selling these new devices is eerily similar. Check out the MacBook Pro overview from Apple above, then watch Microsoft’s introduction for the Surface Studio. Okay, so one has a Jony Ive voiceover and the other has a dramatic cover of “Pure Imagination,” but the general arc of the videos — the narrative they’re trying to tell the consumer — is the same.

We start with the camera lingering on polished, machined surfaces; gleaming chrome and impregnable aluminum. The inner components break apart as if in zero gravity, giving us a chance to see how each individual part fits…

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