Microsoft released some new Surface Pro systems powered by Intel this week, and while intriguing, pricing starts at $1,499.99 for those models. If you’re willing to give Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X platform a whirl, you can get a great deal on a Surface Pro Copilot+ system for around half the price with some tantalizing deals at Best Buy.
That chip sits roughly in the middle of the Snapdragon X pack with 10 cores clocked, up to a 3.4GHz multi-core clock speed, and 42MB of total cache. The X1P-64-100 also boasts an onboard NPU with 45 TOPS for AI workloads (same as every other Snapdragon X chip), and an Adreno GPU delivering 3.8 TFLOPS of graphics performance.
Other specs include 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, a 256GB solid state drive (SSD), front and rear-facing cameras, two USB-C ports, and up to 14 hours of battery life.