Weeks after hiking the price of every modern Surface PC, Microsoft is now back with an upgrade that’s built for IT workers stuffed inside their lonely cubicle stacks. If you wanted something a little less business-focused and less pricey, we won’t know how much a Surface built for the average Joe or Jane may cost for a while yet.
Microsoft decided to refresh the current Surface Pro and Surface Laptop lines from 2024 with its “for Business” lineup. That includes the 13-inch convertible Surface Pro with its removable keyboard and touchscreen, as well as the 13.8-inch and 15-inch Surface Laptops. Capping off the new models is an all-new 13-inch Surface Laptop for Business. If that last laptop looks familiar, it’s because it’s essentially a revised version of the 13-inch Surface Laptop, just with an anti-reflective coating on its PixelSense touchscreen. The new Surface Pro for Business is the same convertible you know, just darker. © Microsoft Everybody in the new eighth-gen Surface for Business family is getting access to Intel’s latest Panther Lake chips. The previous seventh edition laptops came with an ARM-based Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus or X Elite. The new Surface Laptop for Business 13-Inch is the only one to support a last-gen Snapdragon X Plus chip, not the newfangled Snapdragon X2 Plus. In her blog post announcing the new units, VP of Surface for Business Nancie Gaskill said Microsoft will have Snapdragon X2-based Surface for Business devices later this year. For the Surface Pro, you’ll have the option of mid-range Intel Core Ultra 5 335 or Intel Core Ultra 7 366H chips. It maintains the same 13-inch touchscreen and a Flex Keyboard that’s still sold separately. Buyers also have the choice between an OLED or IPS LCD model.
