What Did Microsoft ACTUALLY Change? - 'New' Surface Pro (5)
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,347 words · ~6 min read
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Microsoft brought us all the way to China to check out their new Surface Pro
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not the Surface Pro 5 just the Surface
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Pro which is totally different from the Surface Pro that was released in 2013
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and also totally different from the Surface Pro 4 this is the new Surface
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Pro lonus said after not exactly being too enthusiastic with Surface Pro 1
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through three that version 4 was where he thought the concept finally lined up
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with Microsoft's Vision so now it's time to see how far they take it from
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there we're hosting LTX 2017 on July
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29th 2017 it's a Meetup Tech Carnival
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thing and uh it's going to be a lot of fun learn more at the link in the video
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description first let's start with specs under the hood you can pick your
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processor you can go from an Intel M3 to a core i5 to even a core i7 for RAM you
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can range yourself from 4 gigs to 16 gigs and for storage you can go with
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solid state drives from 128 gigs to 1
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tab with the 1 tab option being in the NVMe ultra fast variety but depending on
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your flavor of choice you'll be shelling out anywhere from
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$800 to 2700 you're paying for that performance
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in NVMe drive I would would say that my sweet spot would probably be the core i5
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with 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD but
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if you do want those Iris Pro graphics for doing more graphical stuff or even
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some minor gaming you might want to upgrade that being said the M3 and I5
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models don't have a fan they're all cooled so well that they are fanless
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operation which is pretty sweet if you want a silent computer they claimed at
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the event that the performance of the laptop went up by 20% over its previous
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version that seems a little int considering the processor upgrade that
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they had so we'll have to investigate this claim more back at the office but
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one thing that they did state that was super cool is that there's 4.5 hours
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more battery life over top of the Surface Pro 4 which brings you to
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13.5 hours of video playback battery
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it's also rocking a beautiful 12.3 in pixel sense display with an aspect ratio
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of 3x2 and a pixel per inch count of
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267 it looks awesome and that's pretty much all I have to say there the pen has
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also received welcome improvements going from 1024 de of pressure sensitivity in
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the old version way up to 496 on the new
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one the actuation force needed to make a line has moved down from 21 G to just 10
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G it supports tilt for shading which is super cool and it is apparently the
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fastest digital pen on the planet with only 21 milliseconds of latency but it
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along with the keyboard are not included in the Box the surface pen a rather icon
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iconic part of the Surface Pro laptop is now sold separately if you have the
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previous version of the pen it is forwards compatible and the new pen is
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also backwards compatible if you don't want to buy a whole new laptop but do
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want a better pen which is cool but that's going to
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add a lot of cost if you want a pen and a keyboard with your well laptop and to
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continue the not so great news we've got
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the I/O on the left hand side you've got a headset Jack on the bottom you have
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the cover port on the right hand side you've got a mini DisplayPort a surface
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connect port and a fullsize USB 3 Port
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along with a micr SD port on the bottom the lack of Thunderbolt 3 or if I dare
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say USBC feels a little dated at this
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point and considering lonus already criticized the Surface Pro 4 for lacking
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these things along with just not having a full-size SD slot it just feels kind
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of weird that the io was entirely overlooked with this revision if you're
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unsatisfied with those IO options you can use the dock but as you may have
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guessed it is sold separately as well and last but possibly not least
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depending on your use case they have decided to include LTE capability which
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is pretty damn cool if you really want to embrace the whole portability of your
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device with those 13.5 hours of video playback battery life in conclusion two
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or so months ago lonus looked at the Surface Pro 4 and deemed it at the very
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very least worthy of consideration depending on your use case now it's
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received an upgrade and its pricing structure seems to have St pretty much the same which makes it an even better
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option it feels great in your hand the build quality seems rather wonderful as
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long as you never ever have to take it apart but I do really really wish they
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took another look at their I/O and modernized it a little bit as it stands
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the Surface Pro is a very interesting laptop but it kind of feels like a game
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that really needs its DLC to be fully featured and fully complete you don't
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have the keyboard with it if you're buying this you probably want it for
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some type of design work and it doesn't come with the pen if you're buying this
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you might need to plug more than you know kind of one thing into it at a time
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so you might need the dock you're going to end up walking out to the store with
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quite a few things maybe our wishes will come
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through for the next version of the Surface Pro which I'm going to guess is
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going to be called the newer Surface Pro or maybe the surface Pro 2019 or well it
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is Microsoft so maybe they'll just skip a few numbers and it will be the Surface
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