Microsoft Surface Pro: New 2-in-1 starts with 3:2 display, NFC and Intel Lunar Lake processors
Microsoft has presented the Surface Pro 11th Intel Edition during today's AI Tour in New York City, rather than the Surface Pro 12 for Business as was previously suggested. Regardless, the new device is the third Surface Pro release in a year after Microsoft introduced the Surface Pro 10 and Surface Pro 11 last spring.
As expected, the new Surface Pro release adopts Intel's Lunar Lake processors, which come in Core Ultra 5 236V, Core Ultra 5 238V, Core Ultra 7 266V and Core Ultra 7 268V flavours. Please note that while the processors contain the same Lion Cove P and Skymont E CPU cores, Intel distinguishes '6V' and '8V' variants with 16 GB and 32 GB of RAM, respectively. Core Ultra 5 variants also feature Intel's Arc Graphics 130V iGPU, which is less powerful than the Arc Graphics 140V found in their Core Ultra 7 counterparts.
Elsewhere, the new Surface Pro effectively brings across the rest of the changes that Microsoft showcased on the Surface Pro 11 (curr. $989.99 on Amazon), such as an optional OLED display. However, the latest Surface Pro ships with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed, not its ARM counterpart, and an NFC chip for the first time. Microsoft also quotes up to 14 hours of battery life; battery capacity specifications remain unknown at this point.
The Surface Pro 11th Edition Intel starts today at $1,499.99 and will begin shipping on February 18. Incidentally, today's Surface Pro release coincides with an equivalent Surface Laptop refresh and a new USB 4 dock, details of which we have covered via each respective hyperlink.
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