While I’m not a huge fan of video playback as the one battery measuring stick, it does a good job comparing between Surfaces and other devices. Microsoft says the Surface Pro X’s battery lasts all day long-as much as 13 hours of local video playback-and features fast charging capabilities.

Overall, I’m expecting good compute performance, fast SSD performance, integrated connectivity, and good battery life. 4x4 MIMO would have been better and I’ll dig into why that’s not the case. While 5G would have been great, the Surface Pro X has a Qualcomm Snapdragon X24 modem delivering Gigabit LTE Advanced Pro with support for nanoSIM, eSIM and 2x2 MIMO. For commercial users, Microsoft has certified it with Windows 10 Pro, and for consumers, Windows 10 Home. Surface X supports a removable Solid State Drive (either 128, 256, or 512GB) opening this up to governments and regulated businesses that require removable storage. If you’re into TOPs to measure ML performance, the SQ1 provides 9 TOPs. The SQ1’s CPU operates at 3GHz (a first for Arm) and features the Qualcomm Adreno 685 graphics delivering 2.1TFLOPs of performance, an option of 8 or 16GB speedy and low power LPDDR4X RAM operating at 2.1GHz. This isn’t a fully custom SoC like the Xbox One processor, but it isn’t off the shelf, either, it’s in between. This is huge and could make me a pen believer.Ī big differentiator for the Surface Pro X is its processor, the Microsoft SQ1 SoC, co-developed with Qualcomm. When you’re done with it, it tucks brilliantly in the keyboard hinge. The optional magnetically attached keyboard houses the new Surface Pen, which is shaped like a carpenter’s pencil and it feels great. It also sports a sleek body of anodized aluminum (in Matte Black), a kickstand that hinges to 165 degrees, and a magnetic attach designed for keyboard fold stability. It’s a looker, with its 13-inch PixelSense edge-to-edge display, a resolution of 2,880 x 1,920, and a 3:2 aspect ratio. It’s an all-new 2-in-1 with an edge to edge display design, focused on portability and touted by Microsoft as its “thinnest Surface yet.” Surface Pro X weighs in at 1.7 pounds and features 11.3” x 8.2” x 0.28” dimensions. Perhaps the star of the show was the new Surface Pro X. Surface Pro X- edge to edge display design, Qualcomm-based processor, pen nook If you are looking for Surface Duo information, click here to read. Let’s take a closer at what was announced, and my quick analyst take on it. Tuesday's Microsoft event demonstrated that Surface still had a lot of room for growth and expansion.

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