It’s understandable that Microsoft wanted to wait to include the new Intel Skylake processors in its new hybrid device, but the Surface Pro 3 was released in May 2014, a lifetime ago in the timeline of yearly product refreshes. Let’s just say that it’s something of an understatement when we say that we’ve waited a long time for the Surface Pro 4.
With the Surface Pro 4, Microsoft instead faces a different kind of pressure with an audience that is already sold on the device – that of improving on an already great product and satisfying consumers who have waited a long while for its successor. The Surface Pro 3 was a veritable notebook killer, inspiring a host of other similar devices from other brands, the latest versions of which include the likes of the HP Spectre x2 and Lenovo Miix 700. The parade of flawed and unpopular iterations that came before it, including devices like the Surface RT and Surface Pro, meant that Microsoft needed to acquit itself of a lot and convince customers that the line between tablet and notebook was actually a false divide.Īnd convince us it did. Back then, Microsoft still had a lot to prove.
The Surface Pro 4 may look a lot like the Surface Pro 3, but it enters quite a different market than its predecessor did slightly over a year ago.
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