Microsoft has just launched a number of new products in the market, including the likes of the Surface Pro 9, Surface Studio 2+, and Surface Laptop 5. And arriving alongside these models is the new Surface Pro 9 5G, which features various upgrades over the Surface Pro X.
Display & Design
Looking at the display specifications, it appears that both the Surface Pro 9 and Surface Pro 9 5G model has identical displays. This means, that this variant also sports a 13 inch display that has a 120Hz refresh rate 3:2 aspect ratio, 2,880 x 1,920 pixels resolution, and a 1200:1 contrast ratio as well. Unfortunately, it appears that the 5G enabled model does not support Dolby Vision IQ and auto color management unlike the base Surface Pro 9.
Apart from this, it still features the 2 in 1 design, which means it can shift between a laptop and a tablet. The Surface Pro 9 5G is also larger than the Surface Pro X and even heavier as well, measuring 287 x 209 x 9.3 mm and weighing 883g compared to 287 mm x 208 mm x 7.3 mm and 774g for the Pro X. Apparently this additional weight comes from a larger battery pack.
Specifications
With the larger size, the Surface Pro 9 5G features a 47.7Whr battery pack, which is larger than the 39.2Whr battery on the Surface Pro X. Furthermore, the Surface Pro 9 5G model is based on an ARM chipset from Qualcomm rather than the Intel Alder Lake-U CPUs on the base Surface Pro 9 variant. It features the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 chipset that features four ARM Cortex X1 cores that run at 3GHz and four Cortex A78 cores running at 2.4GHz frequency. Thanks to this chipset, this device is also the first 5G enabled product that Microsoft has released, which runs on its Windows operating system.
As per official claims, this notebook can last for up to 19 hours on a single ful charge, which is around 3.5 hours more than the Surface Pro 9 model. Oddly enough, the American tech giant decided to launch the Surface Pro 9 5G in just the Platinum color option. The Sapphire, Forest, and Graphite variant are now exclusive to the Surface Pro 9.
Pricing & Availability
Microsoft has also revealed the pricing for the Surface Pro 9 5G, which arrives in four different storage configurations. the 8GB RAM + 128GB SSD storage variant is priced at 1,299 US Dollars. On the other hand, the 8GB + 256GB model wil go for 1,399 US Dollars. The 16GB + 256GB variant has a higher price tag of 1,599 US Dollars, while the top end 16GB + 512GB version has a heft cost of 1,899 US Dollars.
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