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the very fact that this thing exists is like a slap in the face to intel you see

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intel has been trying to make processors for mobile devices for years yet almost

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every surface pro since the three has looked about the same with a thick body

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fan venting and sharp edges then 2019

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rolls around and alongside the more traditional surface pro 7 microsoft

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unveils the surface pro x an extremely

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thin fanless machine with beautiful curved edges super thin bezels and

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all-day battery life to boot i mean it looks like a surface pro

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machine from the far future a future where arm processors like the

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one in this device rule the world and intel scurrying around trying to survive

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under the rubble but that future may yet be averted

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so why did microsoft need to switch from an intel processor to arm to make a slim

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and sleek surface pro instead of this thick boy well the arm architecture has

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a smaller instruction set which makes it lighter and more power efficient than

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the x86 architecture used by intel and amd that makes it great for mobile

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devices like phones and tablets but it also makes it less suitable for the kind

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of powerhouse computing that's expected of desktops and laptops microsoft has

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started experimenting with non-intel chips and laptops there's an amd version

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of the surface laptop 3 now and our review is coming soon so get subscribed

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if you want to catch it but as mobile devices get more powerful and laptops

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get smaller and lighter we've seen arm processors start to pop up in laptop

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two-in-ones like the hp envy x2 lenovo's

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yoga c630 and now in microsoft's own

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surface pro x the pro x runs on the microsoft sq1 a custom chip developed in

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collaboration with qualcomm it's essentially a tweaked version of the

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octa-core snapdragon 855 but with a higher clock speed of three gigahertz

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more cash and more io microsoft says

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that it performs great for working and connecting without an office thanks to

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its built-in lte support and its supposed 13-hour battery life we got

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more like 9 or 10 but that's still impressive and that's really the most

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attractive feature of arm-powered devices at the launch event microsoft

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said the surface pro x has 3x more performance per watt than the surface

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pro 6. it's faster thinner lighter while

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still running the full power of windows and

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they almost got it right there you see while arm processors are super efficient

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they can't run x86 apps natively microsoft has gotten around that issue

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by creating windows 10 on arm which enables 32-bit x86 apps to run via

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emulation notice i didn't say run perfectly well

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while chrome opens just fine and runs decently well most of the time hitching

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lag and waiting for a page to load properly were regular occurrences while

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writing this review and while you can technically install professional

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creative apps like photoshop using them was an exercise in

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masochism now adobe and microsoft said arm compatible versions of creative

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cloud apps are coming soon but they're not here yet

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there are arm 64 compatible versions of the new chromium edge and firefox

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available in beta and they were a bit smoother to use than regular ole x86

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chrome that was borne out by our browser tests which saw chrome perform

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significantly worse than the native arm versions

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as for 64-bit x86 apps

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well they won't run at all you'll simply get a message saying this app can't run

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on your pc when you try to run cinebench for example so it was a bit difficult to

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quantitatively benchmark the surface pro x although the geekbench cpu test showed

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it losing pretty badly to our lower spec and cheaper surface pro 7 with an intel

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core i5 1035 g4

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love those 10th gen processor names microsoft says they're working to bring

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emulation of 64-bit x86 apps to windows

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on arm but we might not get it until 2021 and even then performance will

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likely be even worse than 32-bit emulated x86 apps

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so wait what apps are you supposed to run

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on this thing well everything else the windows store has a

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filter which only shows compatible apps there's no guarantee they'll run well

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but you can install them and we were able to install and use browsers

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messaging apps and office programs overall using the surface pro x was

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fine but the experience was surprisingly disappointing on a device that looks and

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feels as good as one of our merch items from lttstore.com

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which reminds me we haven't even talked about the physical hardware here so

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let's the surface pro x is super thin at

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7.3 millimeters and weighs less than two pounds it's got the same great hinge

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we've seen in other parts of the surface lineup and it overall looks really sleek

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especially with the new curved edges the 13-inch 2880 by 1920 display fills

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out the front of the device nicely with the thin side bezels and yes that's a

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three by two aspect ratio

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the top bezel is a bit thicker but that's because of the windows hello

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sensors so i'll allow it for i o we've got an interesting

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situation in the back there's a removable ssd and i say it with air

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quotes because you're not supposed to remove it microsoft says to take it to a

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microsoft store for repairs and there's also a nano sim card slot back there and

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other than the surface connect port the only other i o we've got here are two

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usbc ports now i understand the lack of

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a usb a port the device is just too thin for that but it would be a lot easier to

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swallow if there was also a headphone jack which there isn't oh it's connected

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sure just not to my headphones now inside our machine is the version with

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16 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of storage which is 1499 us the lowest tier model

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comes with eight gigs of ram and 128 gig ssd for a thousand bucks which is

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pretty normal for a high-end windows thin and light but i'm not sure if that

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standard should apply to something that's like 80 percent of a full windows device

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moving on to the 139 dollar keyboard

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it's fine the bottom of the key press is a bit mushy but there's a nice tactile

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bump the track pad is very precise and

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responsive but why is it so small

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making it a bit taller would have done wonders for productivity not to mention

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the fact that it's squished a vertical shape doesn't match the taller 3x2

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display microsoft has had this problem with their otherwise excellent keyboard

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folios for years it's time for an update guys

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now they did change one thing here though the addition of a magnetic

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charging cradle for the new slim pen this is great the smaller flattened

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design makes it feel like a carpenter's pencil and throwing it in its slot

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before packing up and going just feels natural

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however the keyboard now tends to obscure the windows taskbar a bit when

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using the pro-x on your lap perhaps due to the added bulk oh and the pen is also

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145 dollars so we're now at almost 1800

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bucks for the whole setup that's gonna be a yikes from me chief

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now despite those minor annoyances using the surface pro x is mostly an enjoyable

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experience provided you've got dongles on hand and there's no question that

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this machine is far removed from microsoft's first arm-powered surface

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the surface rt which launched back in 2013.

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it ran on an nvidia tagger 3 processor and everyone hated it

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there was no x86 emulation on it so you were stuck with the built-in apps and

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whatever full screen windows 8 metro apps you could find on the fledgling

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microsoft store it was a dark time

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so in that context the surface pro x is

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a triumph an extremely thin and light machine that wakes in an instant lasts

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all day and can run full windows apps with a few exceptions

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whether those exceptions are addressed with native arm 64 versions of desktop

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apps will be the deciding factor in intel's fate because this device seems

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to represent design changes that microsoft has wanted to make with the

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main surface line for a while and we're finally able to make with an arm chip i

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mean a surface pro x that runs all windows apps just as well as an intel

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laptop could blow intel thin and lights out of the water

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if the pressure from amd on desktop continues and arm continues its path

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towards mobile dominance intel might just be up against the ropes

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for now though this machine's getting a little ahead of

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itself i mean with the keyboard and slim pen bundle our mid-tier machine here

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comes to 1768.

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a similarly spec'd surface pro 7 with an intel core i5 comes to

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1628 that's cheaper and it can run photoshop

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so right now it seems like arm-powered windows machines are kind of like the

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plucky freshman he's got some natural talent and a load of potential

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but he's not getting the nobel prize until he hits the books

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we really miss the opportunity to make a joke about it costing an arm and a leg

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huh dang it well hey if you're looking for something

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else to watch check out part three of the hack pro build it might just be the

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fastest mac on the planet

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great i need to go back to tech linked