

Pen input and pen (included with purchase)ġ.7GHz 3rd Gen Intel Core i5-3317U Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000 Runs current Windows 7 desktop applications and integrates with your existing enterprise management infrastructure. Surface with Windows RT comes with Microsoft Home and Student 2013 RT Preview (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote). He also writes “The kickstand is almost identical, but I did find the snap on it wasn’t as solid as the Surface RT model” and “Microsoft has also made the Surface Pro charging cable slightly longer and implemented a USB port into the charging unit to charge your phone.”Īs for the rest of the specs Surface Pro is the same as RT, for more details have a look at the technical specs table below. Tom also points out the microSDXC card slot now has been re-positioned to the side next to the Mini DisplayPort.

Tom Warren from The Verge had a chance to play first-hand with the unit and he says that this time “Microsoft has angled the device at 26 degrees instead of 22 degrees, but if you compared the RT and Pro side-by-side it’s difficult to tell the difference at first glance.”. The same is true for the palm rejection technology.Įven though most of the hardware specs are already known, there are some refinements that will make a difference in the final product.

The Wacom-powered display is also intelligent enough to realize that you run the pen across, but you didn’t mean to write and no writing will appear. Battery life isn’t clear how long will last, but on average is estimated to last around five hours, compared to the 8 hours in the RT version. But such powerful processor for such promising device doesn’t come without some sort of trade-off Surface Pro comes with two tiny fans to cool the CPU, something that Surface RT doesn’t need. Microsoft was also able to pack a 3rd Gen Intel Core i5 Processor with Intel HD Graphics 4000 ( just normal Ivy Bridge, not the upcoming upgraded lower wattage chips), and 4GB of RAM. Surface with Windows 8 Pro is about 4.2mm thicker and 227 grams heavier than its brother. The pen auto calibrates, tracking is very precise and it includes a button to trigger the right-click action in the operating system, and when you flip it over you can use the top as an eraser –and don’t worry, the pen will be part of the bundled as well. The pen snaps magnetically to the side of the device and it has a small ridge that slots into the redesigned charging port. The Windows 8 tablet also features a 10-point multi-touch support and active pen input.
