Should you buy the new Surface Slim Pen for the Surface Pro 7?
Should you buy the Surface Slim Pen?
Microsoft's new Surface Slim Pen has been redesigned to take advantage of wireless charging (Surface Pro X only, for now) in a cradle charger. If you enjoy drawing on your tablets and plan on making full use of what a stylus brings to the table in terms of functionality, the price may be worth it.
You could always buy the Surface Pro 7 without one to start with and see how you go.
Microsoft's refreshed Surface Pro
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Pro 7 as the next step in the Pro line, taking everything that made the previous Windows-based tablets so good — including the familiar Surface 2-in-1 design — and adding a few notable improvements.
The aging USB Type-A port has been replaced with a USB Type-C port, allowing you to connect a whole manner of new accessories and other devices that share the same connector. Fear not if you have USB Type-A hardware as a Type-A port still exists alongside the newer Type-C port.
For specifications, you're getting a 12.3-inch Pixelsense display and options of 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB of LPDDR4x RAM. The RAM type, in particular, should represent a decent performance increase over the LPDDR3 RAM included in the previous Surface Pro. Additionally, Microsoft went with Intel's latest 10th Gen CPUs, with Core i3, i5, and i7 options available. It's quite the Windows tablet.
Fancy new stylus
The Surface Slim Pen is a complete redesign, offering a slimmer profile and wireless charging to complement the Surface Pro X among other Surface devices.
Even more power
The Surface Pro 7 may look like older Surface Pro models, but this latest iteration from Microsoft adds a USB Type-C port and the latest 10th Gen processors from Intel.
