Pro 4 worth the upgrade ?

[RichMarks]

Hi .. New to surface but wanted one for a while.
Was looking at the i5 128gb pro 3 available online for £650.

Then saw the pro 4 about to be released .. Do held off.

The pro4 equiv is £850 ... So is this worth the extra £200?

Main criteria for me is the pen / screen as will use for note taking etc alongside my work laptop.

Clearly better on pro 4 but is it £200 better ?

Realise user views will be limited until act release , but appreciate thoughts to help my decision.

Cheers
Rich

 

[jnjroach]

How long to you plan to use the device? The SP3 is Haswell Based (Gen 4 Core), the SP4 is Skylake (Gen 6 Core). The compute power of the SP4 is greatly improved as is the graphic performance all with about the same battery performance.

 

[GreyFox7]

is it £200 better ?

Probably.

• With Skylake CPU it should run cooler with less throttling,
• bigger better screen,
• better SSD,
• additional custom chip to improve pen and touch,
• thinner n lighter,
• better front & rear cameras with Windows Hello support.