
This is the third cycle of these machines, and in the early days they were considered Microsoft’s answer to the MacBook Air-thin and sleek and right around $1,000, with Alcantara fabric around the keyboard. The Surface Laptop, Microsoft’s more traditional clamshell laptop, is getting some interesting updates. It starts at $750, and like the other products it can be preordered today and ships in late October. The Surface Pro 7 is largely unchanged from the previous Pro model, except for the addition of an Intel 10th-generation Ice Lake processor and a USB-C port, something last year’s Surface Pro 6 was lacking. The Surface Pro X is joined by the Surface Pro 7, the newest version of the two-in-one tablet. As Panay puts it, some of the products are “for people right now, and some are designed to get people where they’re going.” The former category is made up of new Surface tablets, laptops, and headphones, while the latter includes the dual-screened Surface Neo and Surface Duo, mobile devices that won’t ship until the 2020 holiday season. The Surface Pro X is part of a wide range of hardware announcements from Microsoft today.

It start shipping the first week of November.

The Surface Pro X won’t be cheap: It will start at $1,000 for a configuration with 8 gigabytes of RAM and 128 GB of internal storage, rivaling the starting price of the Apple's 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
