Microsoft Surface Pro (12 Inch) and Surface Laptop (13 Inch): Specs, Price, Features, Release Date

Like the caller Surface Laptop, it's powered by the Snapdragon X Plus (8-core) processor, which helps present what Microsoft claims is up to 16 hours of artillery beingness for section video playback and 12 hours of web browsing. It has 16 gigabytes of RAM and the aforesaid retention options. It besides has 2 USB-C ports and a 3.5-mm headphone jack.

The Surface Pro keyboard has been redesigned specifically for this model. It includes a matte thenar rest, full-size backlit keys (with a dedicated Copilot and fastener key), and a customizable precision touchpad with adaptive interaction mode. Microsoft says it present rests and folds backmost wholly level against the tablet, making it easier to type, draw, oregon write. It supports the Surface Slim Pen 2 (sold separately). Unlike the different Surface Pro Keyboards, which person a slot to store the stylus, you tin connect it to the backmost of the tablet magnetically, wherever it volition wirelessly charge.

The Surface Pro (12 Inch) is disposable for preorder and starts astatine $799, with retail income kicking disconnected connected May 20. Once again, you tin find the Surface Pro (11th Edition) for astir the aforesaid terms these days with 256 GB of storage, 16 GB of RAM, and the somewhat much almighty 10-core Snapdragon X Plus these days, not to notation the bigger and higher-resolution 120-Hz, 13-inch screen. But you suffer retired connected the slimmer and thinner chassis—the newer Pro is 1.5 pounds versus past year's 1.97 pounds.

Presumably, the caller Surface Laptop and Surface Pro volition spot discounts during large merchantability events that volition abstracted them from their flagship siblings and marque them a amended value.

Copilot+ PC AI Features

The Surface Laptop and Surface Pro person the aforesaid artificial quality features arsenic their pricier counterparts. That includes Windows Studio Effects, which offers originative filters; Eye Contact, which adjusts your eyes truthful they look to look astatine the camera adjacent if you're looking disconnected to the side; Portrait Blur, for a blurred inheritance during video calls; and Voice Focus, to heighten audio and trim inheritance noise. There's besides CoCreator, a generative AI diagnostic built into Paint that generates an representation based connected your drafting and the punctual you benignant in, positive Live Captions for instant real-time translation crossed video and audio calls.