Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro pricing: $899 and up - henleymoures

Microsoft has announced pricing for its Surface with Windows 8 Pro, starting at $899 with 64 GB of storage.

A 128 GB version will also be available for $999. Both models will include a Surface active analog-to-digital converter pen with "Palm Block" technology, but Microsoft's Touch Cover and Type Cover will be sold separately. As previously stated by Microsoft, the Surface with Windows 8 Pro will go in sale in Jan.

In terms of both sized and technical school spectacles, the Surface with Windows 8 Pro is beefier than its Windows RT sibling. It weighs more or less 2 pounds and measures 0.53 inches thick, compared to 1.5 pounds an 0.37 inches heavyset for the Come up with Windows RT.

But instead of a Tegra 3 ARM-based processor, the Pro version has an Intel Core i5 chip, and its 10.6-column inch display has a resolution of 1920-by-1080, instead of 1366-by-768. When connected to an external monitor through miniskirt DisplayPort, the Rise with Windows 8 Pro supports resolutions up to 2560-by-1440. Its storage configurations are besides treble those of the RT version, but Windows 8 itself will verisimilar consume more of that space compared to Windows RT.

The biggest difference, however, is that the Intel-based Surface runs a chockful version of Windows 8 Pro. That means it can install any desktop app, additionally to Neo-panach apps from the Windows Store. Although the price is much higher than the Windows RT Surface, which starts at $500, it's more consanguineal to an Ultrabook in terms of its capabilities.

Microsoft International Relations and Security Network't yet winning pre-orders for the Surface with Windows 8 In favor of, and hasn't aforesaid when it'll march on sale. One mightiness speculate that the pricing news was meant to disrupt conflicting reports about whether Windows 8 is selling well, or that IT's plainly meant to help people decide whether to hold off on purchasing a Surface with Windows RT.

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