Microsoft’s revised lineup of Surface devices for the rest of us are officially—finally—the company’s “fun” laptops. The new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop feature pleasant earthy tones and unique keyboard haptics designed to soften the blow of spiking prices and lack of chip options beyond more ARM-based offerings.
These new Surface devices are very similar to the older versions, though I’ll admit that the clay-colored “Dune” Surface Pro and olive “Jade” laptop are hitting all the right notes for me. They’re far more appealing than the humdrum black and gray Surface Pro for Business lineup. In addition, Microsoft redesigned the trackpad and Slim Pen haptics to add small vibrations when users tile windows or scrub a video timeline. The haptics should, in theory, work across a multitude of apps. For instance, you should feel a small vibration when you align an image correctly in PowerPoint. Microsoft’s VP for Surface Devices, Brett Ostrum, talked to me about the new touchpad haptics during Computex 2026. When I compared it to the old-school rumble in a controller for a more visceral experience, he said that was pretty accurate, though it’s built to work across Windows 11 and various apps. That “Dune” colorway is easily my favorite of the recent 13-inch Surface Pros. © Microsoft Otherwise, these devices are much the same as they were in 2024, just with slight design tweaks. While the new Surface Pro 13 still uses that bright OLED display (or LCD on the lower-end model), the new 8th-edition Surface Laptop 15 promises a better pixel density on its IPS LCD screen—261 PPI (pixels per inch) compared to 200 PPI on the last-gen model.
