The newly introduced thunderbolt 4 USB-C port makes connecting the tablet to multiple monitors a breeze too. If you’ve recently switched to hybrid working or hot-desking, it’s the perfect device for moving seamlessly between home, the office, and different workstations. If you can’t stomach dropping £159 on an official cover, you can also pair a regular old Bluetooth keyboard and mouse with the surface pro 8. Keep that in mind as you read our review – most of our testing took place while using the keyboard attachment. The surface pro 8 is a great tablet, but a better laptop.

As a pure tablet it’s pretty heavy and unwieldy when held with one hand, and because it runs on Windows – which makes plenty of concessions to touch controls, but is a desktop OS at heart – you inevitably feel like you’re missing out on practical features without a physical keyboard to type on.

The surface pro 8 doesn’t come with the keyboard type cover accessory (£159, .uk), but we really can’t imagine using one without it.

Review surface pro 8