Surface Pro X Review

These phobias might be for thins like escalators, bugs, airplanes or situations like sleeping in the dark, going to school. deeprootsmag.org online viagra People who complete the assessment typically discover it provides a revealing insight into levitra 20mg canada their personality, their preferences and how they interact in relationships and their surroundings. These ingredients are mixed in the right ratio and processed further in the decoction of Bala, Musli Sya, Ashwagandha and Gokhru. http://deeprootsmag.org/2017/02/21/nasas-fermi-discovers-the-most-extreme-blazars-yet/ cialis 10 mg Cardiovascular health has seen major improvements over the last 50 years precisely because of its understanding of the heart as a system to pump blood, just like the oil generic cialis cipla pump in your car.

The surface pro x is kind of the baby in the surface lineup, with it’s ARM based CPU, but is it actually any good? Let’s take a look and see. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos like this one every monday, wednesday and friday!

The main defining feature of the Pro X is it’s “Microsoft SQ1” CPU – which is basically a modified Snapdragon 865 – the same CPU you’d find in a few smartphones and tablets – and uses ARM architecture, instead of the x86 architecture that both intel and AMD use. For those that don’t know, ARM uses a reduced instruction set – RISC – instead of the much heavier x86 instruction set, allowing it to be much more power efficient, and in some cases faster too. 

The problem with that, is it’s a different instruction set, so all the Windows programs that are made for, well, 99% of Windows users, won’t run on this. Now, happily Microsoft have included x86 emulation through a translator here, meaning that most x86 apps will run – they might not be stable or even functional, but they’ll run. But x64, or 64 bit applications, won’t. That’s a pretty big deal, as 64 bit has been pretty standard for quite some time now, and it can be hard to find x86, or 32 bit versions of applications to get to work here. 

I would love to show you how this SQ1 compares to, well, anything else, but when I try to run basically any benchmark, you get this. “64 bit apps can run on your PC”. I even tried to install any Adobe suite apps like Media Encoder, but Adobe straight up doesn’t let you download the installer any more, so my only option is to run GeekBench to compare – which by the way, here are the results for you to compare to your own machines.

Looking at it from a usage standpoint, it’s certainly not the fastest or snappiest machine. Even using their own whiteboard application lags pretty badly when just zooming in and out, and that carries across to pretty much anything you try and do with it. Suffice to say it’s not the most powerful machine.

To me, it feels a lot like a glorified chromebook, it’s a word processing, internet browsing machine and not much more – albeit a very well built one. Seriously, this thing feels quality in the hand, it’s kickstand lets it lie almost flat to almost vertical and generally feels great. It’s even got dedicated storage that’s hidden under a little panel, up to 512GB, and even supports LTE with a nano sim card next to the SSD too, pretty nice. 

So, if it’s a baby surface it should have a pretty reasonable price too… wait what??? It STARTS at £1000?? This model costs basically £1500?? Oh wow that’s a lot, like that’s way too much. Wow. 

Well, at least they’ve got a new type cover, with a slightly backlit keyboard that’s certainly not the worst, it’s pretty tactile although a little too light for my taste, and a track pad down the bottom that while functions fine, has multitouch support as you’d expect, and tracks well, is pretty tiny given all the extra space down there. Ah well at least you have a new cubby hole for the new slim pen that’s actually pretty nice to use, it feels good in the hand, and does a good job of touch rejection when drawing. So, how much does that come to? £260!? WHAT? For a keyboard and a stylus?? Ok what about if I just get the pen.. OH MY GOD IT’S £130 for a stylus.. Why??

Well, at least the display is beautiful… It’s 2880×1920 making it a pretty tall aspect ratio of 3:2, it’s also impressively bright with some great looking colours to the eye – unfortunately I couldn’t test the display that’s to a lack of USB A ports – you only get 2 Type C ports – and a lack of software compatibility, but since you can’t run any apps that would require an accurate display it doesn’t really matter now does it. 

The included speakers are actually pretty good for a device this thin, they lack bass as you might expect, but are clear enough, and since you don’t even get a headphone jack, it’s these or bluetooth for you! 

Battery life is actually pretty impressive, Microsoft quote 13 hours, but that’s just not possible really, you’ll get between 8 and 10 hours from it’s reported 38Ah battery, which, don’t get me wrong, is brilliant, it’s just not what Microsoft claim. And in terms of charging, sadly it doesn’t use those USB C ports, it uses their “Surface Connect port”, a magnetic port that is honestly far too weak as every time I move the device the charger would fall out. 

So, when all said and done, to get what I have here, you’d be paying around £1700. For that kind of money, you can buy a 13 inch macbook pro, or even the ipad pro with keyboard cover and pencil, or if you want Windows, get a Dell XPS 13 2 in 1 and get double the storage and a full version of windows that will run anything you want. 

Now, I haven’t mentioned the elephant in the room, the fully featured surface pro 7, which is actually cheaper than the pro x, because I have one and I’ll be doing a full review of that next week, so make sure you are subscribed so you don’t miss that!

Want one? Amazon: https://locally.link/9LLv
Microsoft Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/surface-pro-x/8vdnrp2m6hhc
Products shown provided by: Microsoft