Surface Pro 8 just leaked with Intel Tiger Lake — here’s your first look

Surface Pro 8 just leaked with Intel Tiger Lake — here's your start look

(Image credit: zzaj300n/eBay)

It'south been over a twelvemonth since the launch of Microsoft's Surface Pro seven, and nosotros've heard very niggling about its successor in the meantime. Things have merely inverse, though, and it's a very strange situation.

Our first real glimpse of the Microsoft Surface Pro 8 hasn't come from a traditional leak, because one of the engineering science samples has but turned upwards on eBay.

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The listing concluded concluding night with a single $ane,300 bid, less than 24 hours after it first went live. Apparently the seller, who has no visible seller feedback, ended the listing because the item had been sold.

The eBay list claims that the Surface Pro eight comes in the verbal same chassis equally the Surface Pro 7, seemingly ending rumors that there would exist some blueprint upgrades coming along for the ride. So it's all nearly the internal hardware once again, including an 11th gen Intel i7-1165G7 processor, 32GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

The seller also says the tablet comes with a blue blazon cover, and warms potential buyers to back up the drivers before doing a arrangement restore considering they won't be able to find it once again online. Which makes sense, given the fact that this is an technology prototype of an unreleased machine.

If this 2-in-1 image is legit it suggests that the Surface Pro 8 is likely to disappoint. Rumors take suggested the machine would go an upgraded kickstand, possibly with solar panels installed, but manifestly that's not going to happen.

We don't know what the battery life is similar, though, so that's 1 matter we tin still be surprised nearly when Microsoft reveals the tablet for real.

We still don't know when the Surface Pro 8 is going to go far, though reports have suggested it won't be happening this year. So early 2021 is likely to exist the earliest time we'll see some sort of official annunciation, provided COVID-19 hasn't affected Microsoft's plans.

It'south possible that Microsoft could withal launch the Surface Pro eight this yr. Later on all, Apple is expected to hold a November result to unveil is Apple Silicon MacBook. But we're only going to have to wait and run across.

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