The last Surface Pro is without a doubt a great Windows tablet but not a precisely risky bet, but it seems that for 2018 Microsoft could surprise us with new devices that would get more out of the formulas that have made its line of tablets and convertibles triumph so far: the latest news suggests that, in addition to the Folding surface I could be working on a Surface with ARM processor.
Microsoft would be working on a Surface with a Snapdragon 845 processor
Microsoft had long ago announced his plans to bring Windows 10 to devices with ARM processors and we had speculated that they might launch their own as well, something that seems increasingly likely to happen, and perhaps not for too long, a recent job posting by the company seems to indicate.
Through the details of this job offer it has even been possible to discover that the processor that apparently those of Redmond would have in mind for this future device is the Snapdragon 845, which is expected to be presented at the next Qualcomm event, in which it would also talk precisely about its participation in the expansion plans of Windows 10 to the ARM territory.
It is clear with this, at least, that for this project Microsoft will work with the best processors of this type that we will have available at that time and that, although cheaper than your Surface Pro, we will probably still be facing a premium device. We would say that it also indicates that we can get used to the idea that we are going to have to wait a long time to see this project become a reality, if it does not end up discarded halfway.
Microsoft tries to make its Surface even more "mobile"
We will have to wait to see how much future Windows devices with ARM processors give of themselves, but it is clear that Microsoft is looking to make its Surface increasingly mobile. The first sign of this was that he finally decided to launch a Surface Pro LTE Advanced, which by the way has also been put on sale just this weekend, although at the moment only for professional clients and it seems that not yet in Spain.
Even more striking was the news that he is working on some kind of "Surface Note" or "Surface Courier" (the name it could receive is far from clear yet), a Folding surface, smaller than the current ones, designed to be able to carry comfortably at any time and designed to fulfill the most basic tasks and serve as a device for taking notes.
It is interesting that Microsoft you are exploring all these formulas, especially thinking about the battle you have with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), right now in the field of tablets and that little debate that has been opened recently regarding what the future is in this field, with those controversial statements by Nadella suggesting that the iPad is not a real computer y the latest promo video of those on the block who casually questioned what a real computer is right now.
Source: winfuture.de