The price of a gadget for its size is now more important than ever. It seems that more companies – including Microsoft – are beginning to identify with the requirement of more competent laptops at those prices that can actually spend. Windows maker Just dropped details On its new 12-inch surface pro and thin 13-inch surface laptops, which seems to fit the bill, at least on paper. With prices starting from $ 1,000 (not involved in the flex keyboard of Surface Pro), Microsoft’s own brand of computers of Microsoft hit the look, price and performance to Sweet Spot in Wayne diagram.
The 2025 surface family contains two very familiar equipment. The $ 900 surface laptop with its 13-inch touchscreen (1,920 x 1,280) has a conventional chlameshell design, while the $ 800 surface Pro is the headlines-headline-thirsty-thirsty-windows tablet of 12 microsoft that converts to a laptop-like device for a visible keyboard. The new Surface Pro is $ 200 cheaper than last year’s $ 1,000 11th-Gy Surface Pro, but-and the role comes here-you still have to buy a separate keyboard. The screen is also smaller at 12 inch (2,196 x 1,464) compared to a 13 -inch display on last year’s tablet. More compact tablets have a percade: it weighs 1.5 pounds than two pounds of Pro 11.
Snapdragon X Plus chip, eight-core of Qualcomm, ARM-based CPU variant introduced both new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop 13 runs in mid-2024. Last year’s Surface Pro Rendition, with 2024 surface laptop, is included in Snapdragon X Elite Chip, which is still Qualcomm’s most powerful arm-based processor. Otherwise, both the new surface Pro and Surface Laptop are packed with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.
Microsoft says that this CPU 2022 surface laptops are offering a better starting price point and an upgrade path on earlier devices. According to the company, the Snapdragon X Plus Chip 2022 in the new surface laptop is 30% faster than the Intel Core i5-1235U in the surface laptop. Microsoft further claims that this CPU could beat M3 MacBook Air in some benchmarks, but it reduced the same claims about $ 1,000 MacBook Air M4. It is more evidence that these large tech firm are ready to start competition on pricing that more people can entertain.
The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptops are not launching with any X86-based Intel Chips, although they can come later with last year’s Surface Pro, which found an Intel Lunar Lake version earlier this year. Either way, Microsoft is affixed with Qualcomm’s arm chips that provide average better battery life, although you will eventually kill a wall with software compatibility, especially with games or aging drivers.
If you have used any older version of the hybrid tablet-laptop design, the 12-inch surface pro will look very familiar. It still includes a built -in kickstand that opens to a surface almost flat. In addition to the shrunken shape, the major change in this cow-round is that the slim pen no longer slots in the keyboard (again, sold separately). Instead, Surface Pro Tablet includes an indent in the back to slot the stylus. This makes sense, especially for those creators who want to use the surface as a Windows tablet more than a pint-shaped PC.
However, you may need to find some dry earth to dig the shallow grave to bury your hoard of the surface connect power cable. Other major changes are the disadvantage of the centuries -old surface connect port. Now, Surface Pro depends on USB-C with only 45W fast charging support. The battery of Surface Pro should remain for about 12 hours depending on the tests of Microsoft with active web browsing. The surface laptop should reach around 16 hours before the requirement of charge.
Like last year’s Surface Pro, the new model paint a beautiful picture. The magnificent blue sapphire color of the 2024 Surface Pro is replaced with a violet color that seems to be spot-on for spring. Both new surfaces Pro and Surface Laptop devices also come in platinum or “Ocean” colors. The latter is a blue-nine silver that reminds me of Apple’s “Sky Blue” on MacBook Air M4.
Changes in the surface lineup are minimal, but there are some modifications that are understood. If you reduce the idea of losing the surface connect, Microsoft confirmed that it would continue to sell the surface model of the previous year, at least for the near future. The next big question is whether these prices will be with the overriding threat of Trump Tariff. The Microsoft Representative told us that “tariffs are a moving goals for us” and refused to say more about if we could see an increase in the price of the surface in the near future.
