

My old work PC gave me hernias when it was lugged around in a laptop bag. There has been a battery-saving union between Qualcomm and MicrosoftĪs you’d expect from a Surface, it’s also very portable. Screen bezels have been trimmed, corners rounded, and its display seems much more vivid and bright than earlier Surface pros. It’s almost as if a Microsoft Surface computer fell out of a time-warp from five years in the future.

Looks-wise, the Surface Pro X looks like what I’d imagine a next-generation Surface Pro should be. It’s based around ARM architecture, and in theory, should confer the Surface Pro X with superior battery life, a lightweight portable design and solid bang per buck value. “It’s almost as if a Microsoft Surface computer fell out of a time-warp from five years in the future”Ĭentral to the new machine is a custom-designed piece of silicon designed and built out of a partnership between Qualcomm and Microsoft. Their latest effort, the Surface Pro X, showcases what is possible when Microsoft has a wee think on the PC. Microsoft’s Surface range of PCs is big noise, and they’ve also been leading the way in both portability and design in the PC market for some time. Not so long ago, if someone had suggested to me that Microsoft would be a big name when it came to making PCs, many (myself included) would have laughed and said, “nope”. $2378.95 The Surface Slim pen is like a flattened-out stylus

PAT PILCHER tests Microsoft’s slinky Surface Pro X and finds out why the brand is making such a buzz in laptop land.
