Microsoft brought us all the way to China to check out their new Surface Pro
not the Surface Pro 5 just the Surface
Pro which is totally different from the Surface Pro that was released in 2013
and also totally different from the Surface Pro 4 this is the new Surface
Pro lonus said after not exactly being too enthusiastic with Surface Pro 1
through three that version 4 was where he thought the concept finally lined up
with Microsoft's Vision so now it's time to see how far they take it from
there we're hosting LTX 2017 on July
29th 2017 it's a Meetup Tech Carnival
thing and uh it's going to be a lot of fun learn more at the link in the video
description first let's start with specs under the hood you can pick your
processor you can go from an Intel M3 to a core i5 to even a core i7 for RAM you
can range yourself from 4 gigs to 16 gigs and for storage you can go with
solid state drives from 128 gigs to 1
tab with the 1 tab option being in the NVMe ultra fast variety but depending on
your flavor of choice you'll be shelling out anywhere from
$800 to 2700 you're paying for that performance
in NVMe drive I would would say that my sweet spot would probably be the core i5
with 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD but
if you do want those Iris Pro graphics for doing more graphical stuff or even
some minor gaming you might want to upgrade that being said the M3 and I5
models don't have a fan they're all cooled so well that they are fanless
operation which is pretty sweet if you want a silent computer they claimed at
the event that the performance of the laptop went up by 20% over its previous
version that seems a little int considering the processor upgrade that
they had so we'll have to investigate this claim more back at the office but
one thing that they did state that was super cool is that there's 4.5 hours
more battery life over top of the Surface Pro 4 which brings you to
13.5 hours of video playback battery
it's also rocking a beautiful 12.3 in pixel sense display with an aspect ratio
of 3x2 and a pixel per inch count of
267 it looks awesome and that's pretty much all I have to say there the pen has
also received welcome improvements going from 1024 de of pressure sensitivity in
the old version way up to 496 on the new
one the actuation force needed to make a line has moved down from 21 G to just 10
G it supports tilt for shading which is super cool and it is apparently the
fastest digital pen on the planet with only 21 milliseconds of latency but it
along with the keyboard are not included in the Box the surface pen a rather icon
iconic part of the Surface Pro laptop is now sold separately if you have the
previous version of the pen it is forwards compatible and the new pen is
also backwards compatible if you don't want to buy a whole new laptop but do
want a better pen which is cool but that's going to
add a lot of cost if you want a pen and a keyboard with your well laptop and to
continue the not so great news we've got
the I/O on the left hand side you've got a headset Jack on the bottom you have
the cover port on the right hand side you've got a mini DisplayPort a surface
connect port and a fullsize USB 3 Port
along with a micr SD port on the bottom the lack of Thunderbolt 3 or if I dare
say USBC feels a little dated at this
point and considering lonus already criticized the Surface Pro 4 for lacking
these things along with just not having a full-size SD slot it just feels kind
of weird that the io was entirely overlooked with this revision if you're
unsatisfied with those IO options you can use the dock but as you may have
guessed it is sold separately as well and last but possibly not least
depending on your use case they have decided to include LTE capability which
is pretty damn cool if you really want to embrace the whole portability of your
device with those 13.5 hours of video playback battery life in conclusion two
or so months ago lonus looked at the Surface Pro 4 and deemed it at the very
very least worthy of consideration depending on your use case now it's
received an upgrade and its pricing structure seems to have St pretty much the same which makes it an even better
option it feels great in your hand the build quality seems rather wonderful as
long as you never ever have to take it apart but I do really really wish they
took another look at their I/O and modernized it a little bit as it stands
the Surface Pro is a very interesting laptop but it kind of feels like a game
that really needs its DLC to be fully featured and fully complete you don't
have the keyboard with it if you're buying this you probably want it for
some type of design work and it doesn't come with the pen if you're buying this
you might need to plug more than you know kind of one thing into it at a time
so you might need the dock you're going to end up walking out to the store with
quite a few things maybe our wishes will come
through for the next version of the Surface Pro which I'm going to guess is
going to be called the newer Surface Pro or maybe the surface Pro 2019 or well it
is Microsoft so maybe they'll just skip a few numbers and it will be the Surface
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