Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: Price and competition The hybrid’s keyboard is both lightweight and very pleasant to use, too. Its large 12.3in screen is spacious and practical and its integrated kickstand lets you prop it up at whatever angle you like.

Although the design is now looking a little stale and staid, it’s proven and still the best implementation of a detachable 2-in-1 tablet/laptop hybrid we’ve seen. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, though. Everything else about Microsoft’s popular 2-in-1 remains the same as last year. Microsoft has changed the CPU line-up to reflect Intel’s latest 10th gen 10nm chips and, at long last, it has added a USB Type-C port. So what exactly is new about the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 over the Surface Pro 6? Well, if you hadn’t guessed already, not a lot. READ NEXT: Microsoft Surface Pro X review Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: What you need to know And although it would be churlish to say this makes it a bad device – it absolutely isn't – just that it isn't much different from the Surface Pro 6: if you get the chance to buy the 6 at a discounted price, you should do that instead.

Despite the new number, the Surface Pro 7 hasn’t been given much of an overhaul this year. With Microsoft launching an ARM-based Surface and teasing exotic dual-screen phone/tablet hybrids alongside it, the good old Surface Pro 7 looked humdrum by comparison. If the Microsoft Surface Pro 7 were a small child it would probably be feeling pretty lonely and neglected right now, and maybe a little jealous of all the attention lavished on its younger siblings.

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