That’s a sizeable jump from the frankly average 10.5 hours on the regular Surface Pro 7.Įlsewhere, familiarity is the name of the game. Other notable promises from Microsoft include up to 15 hours of battery life. With that top-of-the-line Intel Core i7 model, customers can buy up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD storage. LTE is only available on the Intel Core i5 and Intel Core i7 models. In fact, this is the first time since 2015 Microsoft has shipped an LTE Surface Pro model out of the gate.Īs predicted, the base Intel Core i3 model gets 128GB storage and 8GB of RAM, double the base RAM of last year’s Surface Pro 7 entry level. Under the hood the biggest change is support for Intel’s 11 th generation chips and LTE. Those are customers who may appreciate the better specs and performance, no matter how small.Īs is par for the course, the Plus model looks the same as last year’s release. That may be why Microsoft is only selling the Surface Pro 7+ to enterprise and education users. In the world of yearly smartphone release, that’s annoying, but perhaps in the world of laptops Microsoft can get away with simply putting a Plus on the Surface Pro 7.Ĭertainly, there’s no arguing this new product is an upgrade over the old… just not a massive leap forward. In reality, customers are left waiting two years for a true generational upgrade of the original product. Yes, the devices are better, but only marginally so. Namely, doing a mid-generation bump of a device and sticking an S on the end of the name. It seems Microsoft is now borrowing one of Apple’s most annoying tricks. Microsoft’s Surface line has often been labelled as the company’s attempt to copy Apple’s hardware for Windows. In fact, the only correct aspect of the pre-release buzz was the name of the product. It seems most of those rumors were accurate, including an LTE model. Of course, we knew that as we recently charted the pre-release rumor mill surrounding the device. Yes, that means there’s not a lot here to be terribly excited about. As the name suggests, the rumors were true, and this is a mere incremental update of last year’s Surface Pro 7. Instead, Microsoft is debuting the Surface Pro 7 Plus today, the latest generation of its 2-in-1. As expected, Microsoft has wasted no time in 2021 in launching the Surface Pro 8, except it’s not called that at all.
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