a lot has changed in the last year Beyonce stunned the world with the
release of her Visual Album lemonade Donald Trump stunned the World by
packing his bags and moving into the house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and
perhaps most importantly Microsoft slashed the price of the Surface Pro 4
earning it after a year and a half to reach full maturity a spot in our review
lineup so while the Surface Pro 4 looks
very similar to the three which is good it's possible nay probable that the
changes lurking under the hood are enough to make it very different from
its predecessor which received a pretty tepid review from yours
truly but are they enough to elicit a
recommendation at the new lower price
let's have a look
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description the Surface Pro 4 feels really good in the hand it is reasonably
light and as we've come to expect the overall build quality is fantastic the
magnetic mount for the stylus is on the left now so you can have it clipped on
while you charge the device and more importantly it is much stronger than the
Surface Pro 3 under the hood there are more upgrades over the older model and
while Skylake CPUs have been on the market for 18 months now they still hold
up surprisingly well given that Intel
hasn't done much performance-wise in that time so you should be able to find
something that's right for you depending on how much you want to spend I think
The Sweet Spot sit somewhere in the I5 with 8 gigs of RAM range an i7 costs a
lot more for a pretty small performance boost but you might find the core M3
equipped Model A little sluggish in even day-to-day tasks like web browsing and
PowerPoint creation and it doesn't include a surface pen one thing to watch
out for make sure you buy the amount of RAM you need since it cannot be upgraded
after which brings us back to the exterior the front camera is 1080 p and
is equipped with an IR emitter for Windows hello which is still amazing and
there's also a 1080p rear-facing camera which is probably worse than whatever's
on your phone at this point and one of my life rules is to never use a rear
tablet camera anyway so we didn't spend much time on that on the right it has a
mini DisplayPort Port this is a huge Plus for something that is at least on
the surface a tablet so that can be
easily adapted to HDMI DVI or even DGA
for boardroom presentations but it's 2017 and while it kind of kills me to
say this a single usb3 type a port does
feel a little dated and I hope that the refresh features Thunderbolt 3 or at
least USB type-c with the option to use it as a power input not that I'm asking
for the magnetic power connector to go away another upgrade I'd love to see on
the rumored upcoming Surface Pro would be a full-size SD card reader instead of
a micro I mean there's got to be enough space down there and those new 300 megab
per second cards from Sony would make a great extra storage Drive the screen on
the Surface Pro 4 maintains the 2x3 aspect ratio of previous versions which
sacrifices some real estate for widescreen aspect media consumption but
with the average sounding speakers that clearly wasn't the primary focus for
Microsoft and this this aspect ratio is great for productivity and reading
articles and its full coverage of the srgb color space and excellent viewing
angles as well as outof the boox calibration means that it has stood up
very well to the test of time just like the CPU Microsoft went for a suede feel
on the keyboard cover that in spite of its binder likee Edge Construction
managed to really impress me the touchpad is understandably a little
small but feels good with a satis ifying audible click and the keyboard wow if
I'd known it was this good I'd have reviewed this when it was released the keystrokes felt good there's a fairly
long travel and there's a satisfying click that I didn't expect from my
experience with previous surface products I was able to quickly get up to
speed and this entire review was typed on the Surface Pro 4 the backlight is
also a nice touch on that subject as one
of those weirdos who genuinely likes touchscreen devices it shouldn't surpr
Uris you that even in kickstand laptop
mode that was one of the highlights for me of using the Surface Pro 4 in word
you can easily highlight misspelled words and navigating in the browser is
cake I mean other than that I was using Edge to kind of have the full Microsoft
experience I know many people still think that laptops don't need touch
screens but I suspect many of them have just never used one regularly the
included Stylus is also one of the areas that Microsoft really stepped up on the
Surface Pro 4 compared to the three writing notes in one note was easy and
felt much closer to actually putting a pen to paper and I could see this being
extremely useful as a university student and it even inspired me to learn a bit
about thermodynamics from one of our new writers a bit not much this is
definitely a huge improvement over the previous versions with the only downside
being that it occasionally picked up a palm uh while using the stylus opening
up the notifications panel another area that the Surface Pro 4
impressed me with was The Thermals of this little guy despite its super thin
size it was able to keep the i7 in its guts nice and cool during our ID to 64
stress test stabilizing it at around 75°
while still turbo boosting to 3 GHz and as a bonus it actually stayed reasonably
quiet too so who is this thing for then
the tablet with a keyboard concept still
won't be perfect for everyone and if you never plan to use the pen or
fold back the keyboard a normal laptop
like the LG gam or HP Spectre X 360
might make more sense but I will say
this I genuinely regret not bothering to
review this thing when it first came out because the fourth version of the
surface is where the concept finally lives up to Microsoft's vision and if
you can compromise on a somewhat dated IO and you want something now today
that's great for productivity tasks such as taking notes using word and surfing
the internet at the new lower prices it's pretty killer I'm just excited to
see how they follow it up maybe with a more timely piece of content this
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