It's an epic Surface vs. iPad smackdown in this parody ad

Surface disarms the iPad.

(Credit: LaughPong/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

It is, perhaps, appropriate that on a day where America persuades itself that there are only two options (and Roseanne Barr), some aggression appears from a Microsoft fan toward Apple.

Here we have the iPad sedately playing a nice piano tune from Apple's sweet little iPad Mini launch ad. Then in soars the Surface, a very noisy Stealth bomber that's loud, proud and unbowed.

It cuts through the sedateness with its raucous noise. It flies around like a bat that forgot to take its Ritalin.

That, however, is not enough.

For the Surface needs to show who's boss in as modern and American way as it can.

So it flies over to the apparently cybernetic hand that's playing the iPad piano and severs it.

You'd think that would end things. You'd think that without hands to play with it, the iPad is just another inanimate machine, looking for a home.

Well, you underestimate the wrath of the righteous Microsoft fanperson. For the Surface then flies up and delivers a vicious elbow drop to the iPad's screen, smashing it. (Well, as it would have done had it an elbow. Just watch.)

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