

Finally, it feels like the Intel-powered Surface Pro is a modern product.

It's also made out of aluminum, rather than the more traditional magnesium. It has a bigger 13-inch screen with narrow bezels, and it uses a new Slim Pen 2 that's stored in the keyboard. Aside from a minor bump up to 12.3 inches with the Surface Pro 4, and the addition of USB Type-C with the Surface Pro 7, not much has changed since 2014. It was the first time we saw the modern Surface Connect port, the first time the pen used N-Trig, and the first time it came with a 3:2 display. Indeed, the Pro 3 gave us Surface as we know it today. The new Surface Pro 8 is the biggest change to the product since the Surface Pro 3. Conclusion: Should you buy the Surface Pro 8?.Price: It costs a lot more than its predecessors.Thunderbolt 4: You can attach an external GPU to your Surface Pro 8.Performance: The Surface Pro 8 comes with Intel 11th-gen processors.Slim Pen 2: Writing on it feels like writing on paper.Keyboard: The first new keyboard connector for the Surface Pro, ever.Display: Finally, the Intel-powered Surface Pro has narrow bezels.Design: The Surface Pro 8 looks a lot more like the Surface Pro X, and that's a good thing.
