If you’re a Microsoft fan, you’ve been waiting for months for this announcement. Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest consumer version of the Surface Pro, called the Surface Pro. This generation brings several significant changes to the lineup, including a wireless keyboard cover, an OLED display, and a 1440P webcam. Something, to my knowledge, has never been tried in a 2-in-1.
The new Surface Pro is a 13-inch PixelSense Flow OLED display with a 120hz refresh rate and a 1M:1 contrast ratio. The base configuration does start at $999; if you want that OLED, then you’re starting at 1,499. The biggest change this year is the lack of Intel Processors or AMD. Microsoft has switched to the Snapdragon X Plus and the Snapdragon X Elite this year. You can spec the RAM up to 32GB; there’s not a 64GB option as there is in the Surface for Business Intel variant announced earlier this year. You can have a removable SSD of 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB.
Connectivity is the latest Wifi 7 standard, Bluetooth 5.4, with the option of mobile connectivity coming later this year. A removable Bluetooth keyboard is something new to the Surface lineup this year. This means the keyboard can be detached from the Surface and still work wirelessly. Microsoft calls this the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard. You still get the haptic trackpad and the charging slot for the Surface Pen.
You can preorder the new Surface Pro from the Microsoft Store; the LCD variant starts at $999, and the OLED version is $1,499.
