You don’t have to follow the tech industry very closely to understand that the best Windows tablets are those made and sold by Microsoft, and you also don’t have to know an awful lot about the company’s latest Surface Pro generation to tell that an opportunity to save $400 on a model regularly priced at $1,399.99 is not to be missed.
Yes, the Surface Pro 11 is part of Amazon’s Black Friday Week extravaganza kicked off earlier today, and intriguingly enough, the Snapdragon X Elite-powered variant with a whopping 16GB RAM and a decent 256 gigs of storage currently available at that aforementioned $400 discount just so happens to be exclusive to the e-commerce giant.
That’s right, you can’t get this product anywhere else at any price, be it from another third-party retailer like Best Buy or Microsoft’s own official US e-store, and prior to today, the greatest discount Amazon shoppers were offered (for a very limited time) was $260 around a month and a half ago.
Commercially released back in June, the Surface Pro (11th Edition) scored no notable discounts during last month’s massive Prime Day sales event, so I’m going to be honest with you, this Black Friday deal is a total surprise for me and incredibly hard to turn down for folks who like to occasionally mix their business with their pleasure while traveling or commuting to work.
It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that this year’s Surface Pro edition focuses on mobile productivity as a key selling point, possibly followed by AI (hello there, Copilot!) and general processing power.
Unlike the most affordable variants, this model sports a super-high-quality OLED touchscreen as well… and for a presumably limited time, it costs just a little more than an entry-level unit with an inferior LCD panel and slightly slower Snapdragon X Plus SoC.
Is this the best of the best Black Friday tablet deals available today? That’s… a very hard assessment to make when so many great members of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab family are on sale at similarly steep discounts, but trust me when I say you will not be disappointed if you do decide to opt for a state-of-the-art Surface Pro 11 marked down by a phenomenal $400.