February 7, 2013

Enhanced battery for Surface Pro?

In an AMA (Ask Me Anything) chat on Reddit, Microsoft VP Panos Panay said it’s fair to compare the Surface Pro’s battery life to a MacBook Air, not an iPad. His reasoning is that the Surface is a full-blown PC with an i5 processor, running a regular operating system and the same desktop applications as a workstation; it isn’t a tablet processor running lightweight apps.

But Panay hinted that a future hardware release might contain extra battery capacity built into the keyboard. That would require an enhanced connection from the keyboard to the tablet body, and that’s already in place.

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