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Microsoft’s Surface Pro 8 has been on the market for a few months now and the overwhelming conversation surrounding the product has been about the price increase, and that’s perhaps the best outcome for the company after 8 generations.
Instead of Microsoft being derided for a misstep in hardware execution or software implementation, fans, users and critics are stuck complaining about the only other perceived shortcomings of the company’s eighth attempt at defining the detachable market, the price.
This is not to say, the complaints about the price don’t warrant a discussion, as it is Microsoft’s 8th generation product and economies of scale should be factoring in at some point, but the company presumably sunk some R&D into new hardware features it is looking to recoup.
In a year where the Surface Pro 8 comes with a multitude of hardware refinements such as a larger 13-inch screen, 120Hz refresh rate panel, beefier processors, Thunderbolt 4 ports, 10MP 4K rear-facing camera, support for Wi-Fi 6 bandwidths, larger battery and larger SSDs, there have been little to no complaints about flawed implementations.
Sometimes, what comes off as a no-brainer for hardware upgrades can quickly become the very pain points of a product launch. For instance, in an attempt to introduce a new 120Hz refresh rate panel, manufacturers could open themselves up to dead pixels, hyper touch sensitivity, color calibration, ghosting or tearing issues.
Instead, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 8 has one of the nicest panels on a detachable 2-in-1 to date, and checks off a short-list of hardware features longed for by users of previous generations or long-time holdouts waiting to make the leap.
| Surface Pro 8 | |
| Processor | Quad-core 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7 Processor Quad-core 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1185G7 Processor i5 and i7 options with storage 256GB and above built on the Intel® Evo™ platform |
| Graphics | Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics (i5, i7) |
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