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Surface Pro 4's accessories include lighter, thinner Type Cover and upgraded dock

Surface Pro 4's accessories include lighter, thinner Type Cover and upgraded dock

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At Microsoft's blockbuster event in New York today, the company pulled the wraps off its latest tablet — the Surface Pro 4 — along with a host of accessories for it. Chief among those are the new Type Cover and docking station, both of which are backward compatible with the Surface Pro 3.

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The new dock has two 4K-compatible DisplayPorts (up from one port on the old dock) and four USB 3.0 ports (also up one from the previous model). The new Type Cover, meanwhile, has a glass trackpad that's some 40 percent bigger than the one it replaces — that's a big trackpad. It also features a fingerprint sensor that can be used to log into the connected Surface.

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