Customers considering Microsoft Surface Pro[1] devices have a couple of new options as of this week.
The Surface Pro with built-in LTE[2] is now available and shipping in the U.S., Canada and Australia by consumers. Microsoft made the LTE model -- with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage, plus built-in LTE connectivity -- available for purchase by business customers a few months ago[3]. It costs $1,449. (Hat tip, Windows Central.)
Today, Microsoft also quietly added to its Surface lineup a new Surface Pro configuration. (Surface Pro with no number attached[4] is basically the Surface Pro 5, a k a, the most recent version of the product, which Microsoft introduced in the summer of 2017.)
As Neowin first noticed, there's now a Core i5 Surface Pro with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB SSD[5] -- a previously-unavailable configuration -- now listed in Microsoft's online store. This new model costs $999, which is what the Core i5, 4 GB RAM, 128 GB SSD model originally cost. The Core i5, 5 GB Surface Pro is available for $799 but is sold out on the Microsoft Store. (It is, however, still available at Office Depot on sale for $499[6], as MSPowerUser reported today.)
A related aside: Microsoft launched its hardware division, simultanously with the launch of the original Microsoft Mouse, 35 years ago today[7], as Chief Product Officer Panos Panay noted in a LinkedIn post.
References
- ^ Microsoft Surface Pro (www.microsoft.com)
- ^ Surface Pro with built-in LTE (www.windowscentral.com)
- ^ available for purchase by business customers a few months ago (www.zdnet.com)
- ^ Surface Pro