It is a niche device – not a full-blown Surface Pro 7 or Laptop 3. The keyboard and pen are optional extra’s. 287 x 208 x 7.3mm x 774g and only in matte Rounded edges, thinner bezels andĬhassis. On the whole, apps that do don’t seem to suffer from lag.Ī Surface Pro on a diet. Technically it runs 32-bit x86 (under emulation), and nativeĪRM32, and ARM64 UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps from the Microsoft Most 32-bit x86 programs from Windows Store – pass. Surface Pro X will run much of what you want.

Smartphone SoC enables more efficient, fan-less cooling in a slimmer chassis. The chip is not so much bang for buck as bang for battery life. But it is impressive that all this comes from a low power 7W/15W Of AI power and an eight-Kryo-core 3GHz ARM.ĭon’t put a lot of store in those figures – they are syntheticīenchmarks. Microsoft claims two teraflops of GPU power, 9TOPS In this case, the chip is a Microsoft/Qualcomm designed SQ1 based It is a 32-bit ‘emulation’ of Windows called WOW64 running onĪ 64-bit ARM chip.

It looks like Windows it smells like Windows, and it feels Is not in the same ballpark, it is proof of concept that it can better ChromeOS Well, you can do almost everything on this device that you can’t do on anĪnd perhaps an alternative to ChromeOS. People expect more functionality from a Windows device and less from an iPad. Surface Pro X is an important device for Microsoft and Windows.įirst, it offers a viable Windows alternative to iPad iOS and iPad Pro.

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