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It was here that Microsoft gave away these colorful Surface Slim Pens. It looks like Microsoft made the limited edition Surface Slim Pen in 4 colorways: orange, yellow, purple, and blue.

Microsoft's Surface Pro tablets sell you on the need for a pen and keyboard, without disclosing that they're not included. It may not be a legal bait-and-switch, but it sure feels like one.

But it doesn’t make it any easier to swallow paying $450 for the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard and the Surface Slim Pen, a chunk of change that will get you a solid laptop on its own or over halfway ...

First, the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard. Unusually, Microsoft is selling the Surface Pro Flex Keyboard as a bundle, with the Slim Pen for Business, for a whopping $449.

There’s a 13-inch high refresh rate PixelSense Flow display with slimmer bezels, support for the great Surface Pro Keyboard and Surface Pen Slim 2, and the trademark aluminum kickstand.

It’s $100 to add in Dell’s folio keyboard and active pen. That’s the same entry-level price as the Surface Pro 9, but Microsoft’s tablet is equipped with just 128GB of storage at the low end.