Weight not including Surface Pro Type Cover or Surface Pro Signature Type Cover.Battery life varies significantly with settings, usage and other factors. All settings were default except screen brightness was set to 150nits with Auto-Brightness and Adaptive Colour disabled. The active use portion consists of (1) a web browsing test accessing 8 popular websites over multiple open tabs, (2) a productivity test utilising Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, and (3) a portion of time with the device in use with idle applications. Testing consisted of full battery discharge with a mixture of active use and modern standby.

Testing conducted by Microsoft in August 2021 using preproduction software and preproduction Intel® 11th Gen Core™ i5-1135G7, 256GB, 8GB RAM device. Surface Pro 8 battery life: Up to 16 hours of battery life based on typical Surface device usage. See aka.ms/SurfaceBatteryPerformance for details.

Battery life varies significantly based on usage, network and feature configuration, signal strength, settings and other factors. Internet access required, ISP fees may apply. Please refer to this page for more details. Chatting via SMS is available in limited countries and will be made available to other geos on a rolling basis. See Upgrade to the New Windows 11 OS | Microsoft. *** Certain features require specific hardware.

Only Surface Pro Signature Keyboard has Surface Slim Pen 2 storage and charging capabilities. Surface Pro Signature Keyboard and Surface Pro X Keyboard are sold separately.

* Some accessories and software sold separately.

^ Pen storage and charging available on selected Keyboards.

†† i5 and i7 options with storage 256GB and above built on the Intel® Evo™ platform.

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