The standard type cover, using Microsoft's favorite surface material, soft-but-rugged Alcantara, is $179 in black, platinum, sapphire, forest or red. The least-expensive of those is a $139 version that's left over from the Surface Pro X. Every time I say the same thing: The keyboard cover is a vital part of this device's efficacy, but it's always been sold separately. I've reviewed nearly every Surface system since the line debuted 10 years ago. Here's where it starts to get even more tricky. I'm testing one of the middle options, with 16GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD, for $1,599. On the 5G side, you're again restricted to one color, the platinum, but there are four configuration options, starting with 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD for $1,299 to 16GB of RAM with a 512GB SSD for $1,899. The Surface Pro 8 next to the Surface Pro 9. Core i7 versions go from $1,599 to $2,599 and top out at 32GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD. In this case, jumping to 16GB of RAM runs $1,399, which feels steep. That seems like the overall best value is on the Intel side, although anyone buying a computer for over $1,000 has the right to expect 16GB of RAM. As always, the must-have keyboard cover is sold separately, as is the stylus.įor $1,099 you can get the same configuration with a 256GB SSD, and which comes in all four colors - platinum, sapphire (aka blue), forest (aka green) and graphite. The slate itself (and power supply) are all you get in the box. It only comes in plain platinum, and includes a 12th-gen Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB solid-state drive. The upshot is that your headphones or speaker will need to be Bluetooth, have a USB-C connection or use an extra dongle to connect.ĭetach the keyboard for a great reading tablet. Yes, the Surface Pro 9 joins the growing list of PCs that skip the physical audio connection. But it's also brought along one Surface Pro X trait - the lack of a headphone jack. In an interesting feature swap, the former Pro X now lives in the standard Surface Pro body (minus a few vents because the ARM version is fanless). That allows for some additional camera effects, called Studio Effects, and includes a better background blur, automatic framing (like Apple's center stage) and "eye contact," which purports to make it look like your eyes are always looking at the camera lens. The SQ 3 includes what Microsoft calls a Neural Processing Unit, or NPU.
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