Probably not any faster than my new Ace Chromebook 15.
Also, for $1499, I could buy 5 Chrome Books, give 4 to schools and have enough left over to take my wife out for a good dinner.
The chromebook you have runs a Celeron cpu, and the new SP4 will have an i5/i7 Skylake with a secondary GPU for graphics power... That’s an exponential difference in power.
This is like comparing a 12 bedroom mansion to a camping tent.
The price is a down payment for a car. I like the idea of the Surface Pro and Book but geez they are too expensive compared to others that can do 95% of what you will do.
Chromebooks are cool! I don’t own one but I like its concept. The irritating downside is google mining everything you do and selling this data to advertisers