Laptop: Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop 4 pics leak before rumored January launch

But they reinforce recent rumors that the professional 8 won’t change its design

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The Surface Pro 8, or a minimum of the purported next device in Microsoft’s hybrid range, has popped up again online during a leaked image – this point alongside a snap of the supposed next Surface Laptop.

Windows Central spotted the pictures which were shared on Twitter by @cozyplanes, a Korean leaker who we’re not conversant in – so take this with the standard helping of caution around these quiet rumors.

#Surface EXCLUSIVE2021 new devices1950: Surface Laptop 4 (first pic)1960: Surface Pro 8 (second pic)1961: Surface Pro 8 with LTE pic.twitter.com/LstVtmHCwKNovember 26, 2020

So this is often what might be the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop 4, both products which have just been certified over in Korea, which certification is what these images relate to.

As you'll see, if these are indeed the new incoming models, the planning is staying just about an equivalent in both cases. And that’s rather disappointing – folks were certainly crying out for change with the Surface Pro 7 last year, so if another iteration arrives with nothing doing thereon front, such complaints are likely to urge much louder (particularly after the introduction of the much slicker looking Surface Pro X, which certainly underlined the SP7’s outdated appearance).

Launch imminent?

Theoretically, these Surface devices are set to launch early in 2021, possibly mid-January, as Windows Central speculates. And as mentioned at the outset, we’ve already seen spilled pics of the purported next Surface Pro – also as some benchmarks which indicate solid performance levels.

#Surface EXCLUSIVE

2021 new devices

1950: Surface Laptop 4 (first pic)
1960: Surface Pro 8 (second pic)
1961: Surface Pro 8 with LTE pic.twitter.com/LstVtmHCwK
— cozyplanes (@cozyplanes) November 26, 2020

The beating heart of the professional 8 (or whatever it finishes up being called) will apparently be an 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPU – seemingly the Intel Core i7-1165G7 – and users are going to be offered the prospect to up the system RAM to 32GB (rather than the utmost of 16GB with the Surface Pro 7 models). All of that’s speculation, of course.

The incoming Surface Laptop spec remains a mystery, but Windows Central reckons that both Intel and AMD CPU options are going to be offered again, like the present incarnation of the notebook.

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