For the Surface Pro, that meant one very specific thing: get rid of the 1.7-2.6GHz Ivy Bridge Core i5-3317U, replace it with a 1.6-2.6GHz Haswell Core i5-4200U.

Surface Pro 2 runs $899 and the ARM Surface 2 costs $449. ... first generation's Nvidia Tegra 3 processor with a Tegra 4 and upgrades the 1366×768 screen to 1920×1080 with better color accuracy.

The Surface Pro 2, as the name implies, is the second iteration of Microsoft's portable Windows 8 computer released last year. It has some physical improvements over the original Surface Pro, and ...