Compared to the Surface Pro 4, that’s four more hours of battery life to add onto an already impressive battery life performance.I’ve been warming up to the Microsoft Surface line of tablets lately. For the new Surface Pro, it’s claiming a 13.5 hours of video playback battery life, which is significant compared to many other laptops and 2-in-1 convertibles.

Microsoft has been touting some pretty ambitious battery life claims with its products. You can still use the old Surface Pen with it, but it feels like a marketing trick to not include these important peripherals packaged in.

Microsoft so desperately wants to keep the price low, despite the fact that it sells the product as a “laptop,” which is only true if you have the detachable keyboard cover.

The new Surface Pro still starts at $799, but it now comes without the new Surface Pen, which is sold for $99 separately. Gone are the vents and loud fans kicking in-the new Surface Pro cools itself nicely and stays quiet through whatever intense processing its doing.ģ. One of the coolest things to note though is that the m3 and i5 setups are fanless. processors, with a host of different configurations. The new Surface Pro has the updated Intel 7th gen. Speaking of the Surface Studio, the new Surface Pro does now work with the Surface Dial. It’s a closer angle to what Microsoft did with the Surface Studio, which is designed specifically with artists in mind. It seems like a small update, but the new hinge provides a more comfortable angle for doing things like drawing on the display with the stylus.

It allows for a deeper dip in it-or in other words, it can lean lower for a slightly different angle. The hinge has been good on the Surface Pro products for years now, but the new Surface Pro has a redesigned hinge has gotten even better. However, there are a number of important updates and refinements Microsoft has brought to the product line that make a difference: Even when you check out the input options on this product, you still don’t even have a USB-C port. We didn’t get a redesigned Surface Pro 5, but Microsoft did give us an updated Surface Pro, simply called the “new Surface Pro.” It looks nearly identical to the Surface Pro 4-so much so that you might think there aren’t any changes at all.

Surface 4 pro