Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book: Prices and configurations available at launch
We analyze the price of Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. The hardware of the first first is customizable for the first time, while on Surface Book not all variants will have a discrete GPU.
On 6 October marked a particularly important for Microsoft and its Windows 10 platform. They were presented the new Lumia, the new Band for fitness, but above Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book, two devices that will showcase all entire platform.
Greeted with continuous standing ovation, the two devices combine portability typical tablet functions and power of the notebook. All this naturally has a price, and on this page, we will try to analyze this aspect.
We are unable to provide further information as regards the individual configurations. But we can do it by analyzing the price situation in the United States, already available on the official store. Here we find that Surface Pro 4 is customizable for the first time, with the buyer who can choose a configuration tailored.
Of course, there preset configurations: Surface Pro 4 is offered in the basic version to $899 with an Intel Core M, 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB storage space. Going up in price, we have the version with Intel Core i5, offered with 256 GB of storage and 8 or 16 GB of RAM choice respectively to $1,299 and $1499.
At the top of the range, priced at $1,599, there is a pre-configured version with Intel Core i7, 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.
By customizing the hardware available we will have the opportunity to choose additional configurations, which are very interesting. The variant with Intel Core M does not offer additional options over the base, while the model with Intel Core i5 can be configured with 4 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage built in, while maintaining a very competitive price of $999.
By choosing a cut of more substantial RAM, 8 and 16 GB, you can also access a version with 512 GB of storage built respectively in $1,699 and $1,899.
| Surface Pro 4 | ||||||
| CPU | Intel Core M | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i7 | Intel Core i7 |
| RAM | 4 GB | 4 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 128 GB | 128 GB | 256 – 512 GB | 256 – 512 GB | 256 GB | 256 – 512 GB – 1 TB |
| Price | $899 | $999 | $1,299 – $1,699 | $1,499 – $1,899 | $1,599 | $1,799 – $2,199 – $2,699 |
Surface Pro with Intel Core 4 7 can be configured instead with 8 and 16 GB of RAM, with 256 GB, 512 GB, and 1 TB of storage built in, with the top version of the range that is offered at a price of $ 2,699.
The simpler the price situation of Surface Book, the innovative laptop with 13.5-inch removable touch screen. Unfortunately, Microsoft does not give the opportunity to personalize the choice of hardware and proposed five variants precise. It starts at $1,499 for the model with Intel Core i5, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage but no discrete GPU integrated in the module keyboard.
The first variant with dedicated GPU costs $1,899, and is available with Intel Core i5 CPU, 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage built in. The proposal at the top of the range with Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage has a list instead of $2,699.
| Surface Book | |||||
| CPU | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i5 | Intel Core i7 | Intel Core i7 |
| GPU | – | – | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| RAM | 8 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 128 GB | 256 GB | 256 GB | 256 GB | 512 GB |
| Price | $1,499 | $1,699 | $1,899 | $2,099 | $2,699 |
