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

Like nan caller Surface Laptop, it's powered by nan Snapdragon X Plus (8-core) processor, which helps present what Microsoft claims is up to 16 hours of artillery life for section video playback and 12 hours of web browsing. It has 16 gigabytes of RAM and nan 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 pinch adaptive touch mode. Microsoft says it now rests and folds backmost wholly level against nan tablet, making it easier to type, draw, aliases write. It supports nan Surface Slim Pen 2 (sold separately). Unlike nan different Surface Pro Keyboards, which person a slot to shop nan stylus, you tin connect it to nan backmost of nan tablet magnetically, wherever it will wirelessly charge.

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

Presumably, nan caller Surface Laptop and Surface Pro will spot discounts during awesome waste events that will abstracted them from their flagship siblings and make them a amended value.

Copilot+ PC AI Features

The Surface Laptop and Surface Pro person nan same artificial intelligence features arsenic their pricier counterparts. That includes Windows Studio Effects, which offers imaginative filters; Eye Contact, which adjusts your eyes truthful they look to look astatine nan camera moreover if you're looking disconnected to nan 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 characteristic built into Paint that generates an image based connected your drafting and nan punctual you type in, positive Live Captions for instant real-time translator crossed video and audio calls.