New Surface Pro: No USB-C port, minor design refresh revealed in leaked images

Images of the next Surface Pro leaked out yesterday—and it seems Surface chief Panos Panay wasn't lying when he said "there's no such thing as the Surface Pro 5": Microsoft's next lappable tablet will simply be called Surface Pro without a descriptive numeral.

The Surface Pro images leaked by @evleaks show a device that is slimmer and has slightly more rounded edges than the Surface Pro 4, but otherwise it seems mostly unchanged. Just like the new Surface Laptop, there's still no USB-C connector. The leaked images suggest there will be some new keyboard and pen colours, though.

Internally, the new Surface Pro will almost certainly be upgraded to an Intel Kaby Lake processor, which should boost the device's battery life and provide hardware support for 4K video decoding—but beyond that, it's sounding like this will be a fairly minor refresh.

The new Surface Pro should be officially unveiled at a Microsoft event in Shanghai on May 23.

Now read about how Microsoft should stop treating Surface like it treated Windows Phone...

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