{"id":656110,"date":"2026-06-24T17:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656110\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:54:12","slug":"microsoft-releases-smaller-surface-pro-with-cheaper-price-and-90-hz-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656110\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft releases smaller Surface Pro with cheaper price and 90 Hz display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bodytext\">Now, Microsoft has dropped the device&#8217;s price to $849 while retaining many of its core features. For instance, the new release maintains a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Qualcomm-Snapdragon-X-Plus-X1P-42-100-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.838787.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Snapdragon X Plus X1P-42-100<\/a> processor and a 90 Hz display with almost 500 nits peak brightness in our tests. Likewise, the updated 2-in-1 still ships with 256 GB of non-upgradeable storage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">Unfortunately, this $200 saving comes at the cost of 8 GB of RAM rather than 16 GB. As a result, the new Surface Pro 12-inch is not a Copilot+ certified PC. Please see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/configure\/surface-pro-12-inch\/8mzbmmcjzqv2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Microsoft&#8217;s store listing<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.notebookcheck.net\/Finally-a-silent-Snapdragon-2-in-1-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-12-review.1041342.0.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">our initial review<\/a> for more details about the company&#8217;s smaller 2-in-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, Microsoft has dropped the device&#8217;s price to $849 while retaining many of its core features. For instance,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220375,220377,268,220376,59,269,262,696,43392,220368,267,261,270,30860,220371,266,263,129,220372,220373,220370,220369,86,265,264,56,54,55,220374],"class_list":["post-656110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-2-in-1","tag-2-in-1-convertible","tag-benchmarks","tag-convertible","tag-gb","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-microsoft-surface-pro","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-processor","tag-qualcomm","tag-qualcomm-snapdragon-x-plus","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-snapdragon-x-plus","tag-snapdragon-x-plus-x1p-42-100","tag-surface-pro-12","tag-surface-pro-12-inch","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-x1p-42-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}