

It also has an ingenious piece of industrial design that covers a magnetically attached flat 'Slim Pen' stylus if you go for the higher-end keyboard option, which I got. The Surface Pro X is very good at this, with a super high-resolution display, great speakers and a good keyboard (which you need to buy separately, a feature I think is a little regrettable). It's aimed at those who prize portability and high specifications for a smaller number of core 'ordinary' work functions like Office, email and web. It particularly suits people who don't need to spend many consecutive hours doing intensive research in one place. In fact, it's one of the best-looking machines around, full-stop.įor those who've never really used a two-in-one variant of laptop, it's a Windows laptop that detaches from its keyboard (which also serves as a protective cover). That is not unrelated to it being the best-looking laptop Microsoft has ever made. This is the slimmest Surface device on Microsoft's books and is one of the lightest overall laptops you can currently buy.
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This brings one or two limitations, which I'll come to below. But this is the first time that Microsoft has used an ARM chip (which usually caters for smartphones), instead of an Intel chip.
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The Surface Pro 'two-in-one' line has been around for many years. And it's very pricey compared with some rivals.īut if your work doesn't require graphics-intensive applications such as Photoshop and you spend most of your time online or using Office, this is a real treat. It comes close to being the perfect travel work laptop.įor users with heavier needs, there are compromises. I've been using Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Pro X for almost two months now.
