New Surface Pro and Laptop with Snapdragon X2 start at €1,700 — a €300 jump from the last generation
Microsoft's new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop, both powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 chip, are set to start at around €1,700 (approximately £1,450) when they reach consumers on June 16, 2026. That's a jump of more than €300 over the previous Snapdragon X generation, which opened at €1,399. The price rise pushes Microsoft's ARM devices into direct competition with Apple's MacBook Air M5 — a comparison that gets harder to ignore.
Retailer listings spotted by WinFuture show the 15-inch Surface Laptop 8 starting at roughly €1,800, with top-end configurations reaching €2,300. Surface Pro tops out near €2,200 in the same data. These are European retail prices, not official Microsoft MSRPs, so final figures at launch could shift slightly.
The extras add up
Surface Pro buyers should factor in one long-standing catch: the base price covers the tablet only. The Type Cover keyboard and Surface Slim Pen are sold separately, as they have been for years. Adding both could push the entry-level system past £1,800 in the UK — matching or exceeding a base MacBook Air M5.
Surface Pro with Snapdragon X2 — keyboard and stylus sold separately.
On the hardware side, the Laptop 8 gets a notable upgrade: OLED display standard across the consumer lineup, a first for the Laptop line. The Surface Pro also retains an OLED option. Both devices carry 16 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage at the base tier.
Surface Laptop 8 gains an OLED display as standard for the first time.
Supply delays and competition
The Snapdragon X2 chip faced supply constraints, which is why Microsoft pushed business variants with Intel processors out first in May 2026. The consumer ARM models follow in June, by which point ASUS and Lenovo already have competing Snapdragon devices on shelves.
At these prices, Microsoft is betting on the Surface brand, build quality, and Windows on ARM software maturity to justify the premium. Whether that argument lands with mainstream buyers — rather than enterprise customers — remains to be seen. No pre-order window has been confirmed yet.
Source: WinFuture, Notebookcheck