The company is getting ready for the new Surface Pro 4

Sep 28, 2015 08:37 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just started a flash sale in the United Kingdom for the Surface Pro 3 tablet, in an attempt supposed to help clear out inventories and get ready for the new model coming in October.

The discount is only available for the top-of-the-range configurations coming with Intel i7 processors and 8GB of RAM and are the biggest Microsoft has offered until now.

The new price of the Surface Pro 3 models is as follows:  

256GB / 8GB RAM (£194.85/$296 discount) - original price £1,299/$1,980, now £1,104.15/$1,680
512GB / 8GB RAM (£232.35/$353 discount) - original price £1,549/$2,360, now £1,316.65/$2,000
The discounted prices are only available for the United Kingdom, but Microsoft is very likely to announce similar cuts in the rest of the world too, as the company's preparing for the debut of the new Surface Pro 4.

The successor

October 6 is the day when Microsoft will officially announce the Surface Pro 4, successor to the Surface Pro 3 and the company's new high-end tablet.

Details are missing for the time being, but sources close to the matter previously indicated that Redmond could go for two different sizes this time: a regular 12-inch 2-in-1 device that would be very similar to the Surface Pro 3 and a bigger 14-inch model that would compete against the high-end laptops on the market.

Both would come with powerful hardware, such as Intel's new Skylake processor lineup, 8GB of RAM, a touch-capable screen, and a digital pen for writing and drawing. Obviously, Windows 10 will power the new models.

In terms of pricing, expect the Surface Pro 4 series to be very expensive, with the bigger and top-of-the-range model to cost more than $2,000 (the high-end Surface Pro 3 configuration launched with a price of $1,950, so its successor is very likely to get past this threshold).