Microsoft’s Surface Pro restyled as a laptop

Whatever you call it, Kaby Lake CPUs and longer battery life are welcome changes. MARK HACHMAN reports

M icrosoft’s Surface Pro line-up has remained largely unchanged for the past two generations. Now you can make that three: the new Surface Pro (2017) – no, not the Surface Pro 5 – features substantial internal improvements, but otherwise refuses to mess with a good thing. Ranging in price from just £799 to a whopping £2,699, the Surface Pro is slightly more expensive than its Surface Pro 4 predecessor, which has been discounted from £749 to £636 at fave.co/2rkruqb. The new Surface Pros are available to purchase from fave.co/2swwDMH now. Perhaps the biggest change is semantic: Microsoft has decided to call the Surface Pro a ‘laptop’ rather than a 2-in-1. The firm isn’t abandoning the idea of a ‘tablet that can replace your laptop’, but it believes that users now…

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