Surface Pro 7 Review

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By all accounts, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7 is a great machine, with it’s problems. Lets see if it’s actually worth the somewhat high price tag! 

Unlike it’s baby brother, the Pro X, this has a fully loaded spec. My model is the i7, a 1065G7, 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage. This has a full copy of Windows 10, and even has a bit of GPU power with it’s Iris Plus graphics core. This model costs the same as the surface pro x I had, just shy of £1500, and is a much better value proposition in my eyes.

So, lets run through the good bits. First is the display – it, much like the Pro X is a bit of a funky aspect ratio, it’s a 3:2 display meaning a resolution of 2736×1824, but at 12.3” it’s a very nice display to look at. Colour wise it hits almost 100% of the sRGB spectrum out of the box, and looks to be a great choice for on the go photo or video editing, within reason.

The i7 model has a decent amount of horsepower behind it, it’s Cinebench R20 score was 1767 with 431 on single threaded, which actually isn’t too bad, to give you a point of comparison there, here is where it would sit against some desktop chips – of course it’s not the fastest, but it’s got decent single threaded performance and with only 4 cores and 8 threads, it isn’t going to keep up with the 6 or 8 core rivals. 

I should also mention that while that cinebench run saw the clock speed turbo to around 3.5GHz for the duration of the run, it does thermal throttle pretty quickly, so during longer renders, in something like blender for example, it throttled down to 2.5GHz instead. Speaking of blender, that result wasn’t too bad either, it took 9 minutes and 43 seconds on the BMW test making it about half the speed of a desktop 9700KF, which makes sense.

When it comes to a little gaming on the side, esports titles like CS:GO run fine at 1920×1200, on low settings, even over 100FPS most of the time, but anything heavier is generally a no-go here. It’s still fun to be able to load a game up in your down time though.

What’s less nice about all this performance is the heat and noise it creates. At peak, the CPU draws around 40W, which for a device this small is pretty high. The fan tends to ramp up pretty slowly, but can get pretty loud as you can hear – and can take a while to quieten back down again too. 

On the plus side, the added device thickness means a little more I/O than the Pro X, but not by much. There is 1 USB Type A port, on Type C, a headphone jack, a microSD card reader hidden under the kickstand, and a surface connect port you’ll mostly use for charging – which again is magnetic but is pretty weak, meaning any minor movements of the device, or cable causes it to fall out. A bit annoying. 

The keyboard type cover is also magnetic, although a hell of a lot stronger, and now comes in a few different colours. It types pretty well, the keys are well spaced, the travel is small but tactile and yeah, it’s a good typing experience. The track pad too is pretty decent, if a little on the small side, and of course the display is fully touchscreen too.

Which brings us nicely onto the pen – following the trend, that is also magnetic, attaching to the side with a strong enough pull that it doesn’t fall off on it’s own, but if you try and put it in your bag… good luck finding it again. It’s actually pretty nice to use when the kickstand is basically flat, easy enough to take notes or draw with it if you prefer. You can even use the other end as an eraser as if it was a pencil which is pretty great. 

Audio wise, the built in speakers are actually pretty decent. As you’d expect from a small device like this, they lack bass, but they are impressively clear even when at high volumes. 

So as you can see, this makes so much more sense as a fully functional machine than the Pro X, and despite it’s still pretty high price tag – i mean you are looking at near £1700 for what I have here – it offers a lot of functionality for the money, and while I can’t say this is exactly my ideal device, I honestly have no problem recommending it, especially for creatives who are regularly on the go – or even just office workers in general. 

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