The Surface Pro 8 has been designed with the new Surface Slim Pen 2 in mind, however, and Microsoft says you’ll experience reduced e-ink latency/lag if you use it. Microsoft continues to sell the Surface’s companion keyboard and the pen separately, though there’s an explicit keyboard/pen bundle that Microsoft will sell for an additional $279.99. Our review unit also lacked cellular capabilities, so we didn’t test those. The good news is that all of the Surface Pro 8 options Microsoft is selling should offer enough computational power and memory for any buyer. Microsoft Surface Pro 8 specificationsįor now, there’s one important change in configuration between the Surface Pro 7+ for Business and the latest Surface Pro 8: The Surface Pro 8 lacks an inexpensive Core i3 option, and thus its base price is $100 higher, at $1,099. We would highly encourage users to ensure that their Surface Pro 8 is updated via Windows Update before extensively using this device. Our original review theorized that some interaction between the new Surface Pro 8 hardware, the new Windows 11 operating system, and the firmware/drivers needed to operate the two caused the inconsistent behavior. Our original review should be archived here. We’ve updated our benchmark charts, the review text, and our score to reflect this. The scores improved, significantly in places. After our review published, they asked us to update our review unit again and re-check our benchmarks. We notified Microsoft about these inconsistencies before publishing our original review, and they offered no explanation by press time.

Editor’s Note: Our original review noted some striking variation in some benchmarks, and performance in some benchmarks that seemed out of line with others.

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