

It has an updated Qualcomm SQ1 or SQ2 processor, depending on how much you are paying, and a slightly lower price. The 2021 edition of the Surface Pro X, launched in India this month, is not a huge step forward from the 2020 edition. And while naysayers will remain, devices like the Microsoft Surface Pro X and Apple’s M1 powered Macbooks have proved that this future is not too distant.

On other devices, including the Surface Pro X, the pen supports the same 4,096 pressure levels as the previous model and maintains compatibility with Surface devices going back to the Surface Pro 3.Consumer laptop makers worldwide concur that the notebooks we will use in future will run on ARM chips-chips that use the same system architecture as the chips on our phones.

Microsoft has also updated the Surface Slim Pen-the $130 Slim Pen 2 moves the pen's button from the narrow side to the flat side and adds a haptic vibration motor to recreate the "feeling you get with pen on paper." That functionality, however, apparently requires the Microsoft G6 chip in the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop Studio.

The Surface Pro 8 has adopted most of the Surface Pro X's design improvements, but the Surface Pro X does remain slightly thinner, is totally fanless, and is about a quarter-pound lighter (1.7 lbs compared to 1.96 lbs before you add a keyboard or other accessories). Microsoft is, however, releasing a Wi-Fi-only model that brings the tablet's entry price down to $899 (compared to $999 for the LTE base model, which also includes a Microsoft SQ1 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage). Microsoft has significantly revamped and upgraded the x86-based Surface Pro and Surface Go tablets today, but the ARM-based Surface Pro X isn't getting any hardware upgrades of note.
