![]() 12.9in Apple iPad Pro | £969 | John Lewis.Our favourite alternatives and where to buy them: It's still possible to purchase a Surface Pro 6, which costs around £760 for the model with a Core i5, 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage. In fact, you have to move back a generation to find significant savings. The Surface Laptop 3 with an 8th gen Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and 256GB storage will set you back £1,199. Our favourite flagship laptop is the Dell XPS 13 and this starts at a price of £1,199 the equivalent Surface Pro 7 (with 256GB of storage) is £1,169. In the context of other Windows devices, however, the Surface Pro costs about what you’d expect. The 13in Apple MacBook Pro also starts at a higher price (£1,155 with an 8th gen Core i5, 8GB RAM and 128GB storage), and even the MacBook Air is more expensive at prices from £985 with a similar specification. And although the iPad Pro is more usable than ever as a full-blown laptop – it’s certainly powerful enough – it can’t quite compete with the flexibility of a Windows- or MacOS-based machine. Those prices might look high but they’re more reasonable than the 12.9in Apple iPad Pro, which starts at £939 without the keyboard and half the storage. Suffice to say, though, I’d recommend you purchase, at the very least, the quad-core Core i5, which comes with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and costs £789 without the keyboard. In fact, the lowest spec Surface Pro 7 is a bit sparse when it comes to the core components with only a dual-core 1.2GHz Core i3-1005G1 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD.įor the sake of simplicity, I’ve detailed the other seven of your options in the table below. ![]() That’s won’t get you much in the way of oomph, though. That means the starting price for a Surface Pro 7 could be as low as £840. It’s even possible to purchase third-party keyboards from around £40. Microsoft still doesn’t include the keyboard in the box, but the good news is that, since the Surface Pro 7 is backwards-compatible with previous Type Cover keyboards, you can pick one up for as little as £80 from Amazon. Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: Price and competition The hybrid’s keyboard is both lightweight and very pleasant to use, too. Its large 12.3in screen is spacious and practical and its integrated kickstand lets you prop it up at whatever angle you like. Although the design is now looking a little stale and staid, it’s proven and still the best implementation of a detachable 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrid we’ve seen. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. Everything else about Microsoft’s popular 2-in-1 remains the same as last year. Microsoft has changed the CPU line-up to reflect Intel’s latest 10th gen 10nm chips and, at long last, it has added a USB Type-C port. So what exactly is new about the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 over the Surface Pro 6? Well, if you hadn’t guessed already, not a lot. READ NEXT: Microsoft Surface Pro X review Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: What you need to know And although it would be churlish to say this makes it a bad device – it absolutely isn't – just that it isn't much different from the Surface Pro 6: if you get the chance to buy the 6 at a discounted price, you should do that instead. Despite the new number, the Surface Pro 7 hasn’t been given much of an overhaul this year. With Microsoft launching an ARM-based Surface and teasing exotic dual-screen phone/tablet hybrids alongside it, the good old Surface Pro 7 looked humdrum by comparison. If the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 were a small child it would probably be feeling pretty lonely and neglected right now, and maybe a little jealous of all the attention lavished on its younger siblings.
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