

Audio quality on portable devices can be hit or miss, sounding thin and flat. The Surface Pro 8 houses its speakers behind the top bezel.

Colors pop and it’s easy to see small details in streamed video content, video games, and just about everything else. We pointed our colorimeter at the Surface Pro 8's screen and found it achieves 103.7% of the sRGB color gamut and 71.9% of the DCI-P3 color gamut (the closer to 100%, the better). Images come through clearly in both bright and dimly-lit environments. This is close to the peak 450 nits Microsoft advertises for the Surface Pro 8. A $2,599 model offers an Intel Core i7, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.īased on our testing, the display achieves an average of 452.8 nits and hits 444 nits around the center of the screen. The Platinum model has eight different configurations, starting with a $1,099 base unit featuring an Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD. The Microsoft Surface Pro 8 goes on sale October 5 at the Microsoft Store in two different colors, Platinum or Graphite.
