

The slate itself (and power supply) are all you get in the box. It only comes in plain platinum, and includes a 12th-gen Intel Core i5, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB solid-state drive. The upshot is that your headphones or speaker will need to be Bluetooth, have a USB-C connection or use an extra dongle to connect.ĭetach the keyboard for a great reading tablet. Yes, the Surface Pro 9 joins the growing list of PCs that skip the physical audio connection. But it's also brought along one Surface Pro X trait - the lack of a headphone jack.

In an interesting feature swap, the former Pro X now lives in the standard Surface Pro body (minus a few vents because the ARM version is fanless). That allows for some additional camera effects, called Studio Effects, and includes a better background blur, automatic framing (like Apple's center stage) and "eye contact," which purports to make it look like your eyes are always looking at the camera lens. The SQ 3 includes what Microsoft calls a Neural Processing Unit, or NPU.
