But even then, storage capacity is lacking. We strongly recommend spending at least $899 for a model with a Core i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM. Without any ongoing deals, the Surface Pro 7 starts at $749, but that base model has only a Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. And second, the accessories are cheaper than the Apple equivalents. And yet, the ridiculous component upgrade costs Microsoft charges actually makes the Surface Pro 7 a worse value if you buy the slate alone. The first: the Pro 7 is often on sale for several hundreds of dollars off.

You'll notice two things that favor the Surface Pro 7 when you're shopping for these tablets. iPad Pro 2020 vs Surface Pro 7: value and configurations

That's a significant decline but the iPad still outlasted the Surface Pro 7, which endured for 7 hours and 52 minutes, a drop from the Surface Pro 6's 9 hours and 20 minutes. The iPad Pro went from 13 hours and 14 minutes in the 2018 model to 10 hours and 16 minutes on our battery test (which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits). The battery life of both of these tablets actually took a dip this year. For now, both tablets deliver performance in line with premium laptops. We'll need to do more testing before we can declare a definitive winner. At the same time, the Surface Pro 7's new Ice Lake CPUs come with Iris Plus graphics, which is a big step up from the previous UHD graphics. The iPad Pro should perform a bit better than the previous model, which was already a GPU beast. We don't know how these two compare when it comes to graphics muscle.

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