While Microsoft has been quiet about the upcoming Surface Pro 9, it is a given that the new device will use Intel’s 12th-gen Core chips.

Microsoft usually holds some kind of Surface-specific product launch in the Fall, so it’s not hard to imagine that the Surface Pro 9 could get announced then. S mode: What’s the difference?Īpple could soon put an M3 chip in its worst laptop Microsoft’s Bing Chat waitlist is gone - how to sign up now Just as easy (and a bit cheaper) to tether to my phone. It has USB-A and USB-C ports and is available with LTE.įrankly, with 5G becoming more widely available, I'd pass on any LTE device. I wish I'd bought a SP 7+ through the MS business store. I had bought one because the slim pen was on backorder and I wasn't sure I'd like it. I like the slim pen (BTW, the customer service rep told me that the old-style Surface Pen could attach to the edge of the SP 8 screen - it can't. So I have to drag around a lame C to A adapter to use existing peripheral devices and my FitBit charger. I know Microsoft was responding to years of users screaming for a USB-C port, so they gave us two of them. Trying to adjust the kickstand invariably places my thumb on the edge of the screen and causes some unplanned interaction or closes a window. After 5 years of using an SP 4 or 5, flipping the keyboard out of the way is second nature to me. I want to be able to pin more apps to my start screen than they allow. Never have I been so disappointed by Microsoft on Day 1 of receiving a new device. In November 2021, I bought a SP 8 w 16 GB RAM, 1 TB storage, i7 processor.

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