If you're considering snagging a tablet/laptop hybrid, the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 is among the best laptops you can get. For a limited time, you can score one for hundreds off its regular price.
Currently, you can get the 256GB model Surface Pro 7 on sale for $898.99 from Amazon. That's $300 off its $1,199 list price and just $9 shy of its all-time price low. It's one of the best laptop deals you can get right now.
Microsoft's Surface Pro 7 is one of our top 10 picks on our best 2-in-1 laptops page. The base model on sale packs a 12.3-inch (2736 x 1824) PixelSense display, a 10th-gen Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 25GB SSD.
As we note in our Surface Pro 7 review, we were impressed by its premium design, fast overall performance and bright, vivid display. Though the keyboard and stylus are sold separately, the Surface Pro 7 earned a 4 out of 5 star overall rating.
Design-wise, apart from a new USB-C port on the side, the Surface Pro 7 has the same minimalist aesthetic as the Surface Pro 6. In terms of performance, the the Surface Pro 7 gets a significant upgrade with 10th-gen Intel CPU hardware.
In our lab, the Surface Pro 7 scored an impressive 17,225 on the Geekbench 4.1 overall performance test. This is just a few points shy of the Apple iPad Pro (17,995, A12X Bionic) and wipes the floor with the Surface Pro 6 (13,761, Core i5-8250U).
If you need to take hand-written notes, draw pictures or do precise video or photo-editing, the Surface Pro 7 pen is worth the splurge. Now on sale for $94.99 ($5 off) at Amazon, of all the styli we've tested, it's among the best.
Port-wise, the Surface Pro 7 has the same connections as its predecessor. It has a USB 3.1 Type-A port, a USB-C port, a magnetic Surface Connect port for charging). Microsoft also equipped it with a 3.5mm headphone jack and a microSD slot.
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