For real? Are you serious? Cone on Microsoft!
Much had been said about a potential complete redesign for the Surface Pro family that is about to be announced, but it looks like we will have to wait to see Microsoft make a leap in these convertibles’ look. On October 2, Microsoft will hold an event in New York to present new hardware, and this product will be among the main highlights.
Sources close to the company have indicated to WinFuture that the new Surface Pro will be basically an iteration with an improvement in terms of power and performance. This “Surface Pro 6” (actually Microsoft eliminated the numbering of its models last year) will integrate Intel’s quad-core 8th-generation Core processors. There will also be a low-end model based on the Intel Core M that will also be accompanied by 4GB of RAM, but the rest of models will have at least 8GB of memory.
According to those comments, the other (slightly) renewed product that we will see will be the new Surface Laptop, also updated with new Intel processors. One of the surprises about this slight refresh is the fact that none of them will have USB-C ports. This was one of the expected improvements, but Microsoft seems to resist to adopt this connector although some of their latest devices (Surface Go, Surface Book 2) do have this port.
Panos Panay, head of the Surface division, explained sometime ago how for them USB-C was not yet ready for customers, but stressed that “when Type-C is ready for our customers, to make it easy for them, we’ll be there”. That hasn’t stopped the company from launching a dongle that provides USB-C ports, ironically.
If those rumors are true, there will be no aesthetic changes in the range beyond a potential new black color. The new models are expected to have the same starting prices as their predecessors, which would make us have an entry-level model starting at $799, but without a keyboard or Surface Pen in Surface Pro’s offering, for example.
