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Surface Pro is an extension of the Windows 8 experience, letting Australians work, play and connect via numerous apps and features. Powered by an Intel Core i5 processor and weighing less than two pounds approximately grams and measuring just It also comes with a full-size keyboard embedded in its cover.
However, in the enterprise, where most large organisations already have existing relationships with Microsoft, I expect the Surface Pro to find something of a home, especially with executives who only make light use of their existing laptops at the moment, or want a secondary machine to use as a tablet.
As with the Windows Phone smartphones which are currently being adopted in enterprises around Australia, the Surface Pro will be a good fit for many medium and large organisations who want to offer a Microsoft tablet to their staff — a device which will integrate well with their existing Microsoft environments. At least for this year. My surface RT seemed cool at the time, but the lack of software is irritating, and I think that boat has sailed.
The surface Pro looks good but it has been so delayed the alternatives seem better. Too little too late Microsoft. The included drive is Microsoft-branded and doesn't give away much info on its label.
This means any DIY capacity upgrades down the road will see replacements trickier to source than your typical M. And they will likely be expensive at the storage capacities you actually want , due to the densities required to get high capacities on a short SSD's PCB.
With that in mind, it's necessary here to take a step back and look at the total costs here. The Pro 8 is somewhat of a different animal because of this difference, pushing out of the budget range at even the lowest available configuration. To a degree, that alters who the base model is for. Out of the gate, it becomes a more serious PC purchase, as opposed to a reasonably affordable tablet solution.
The pricing only balloons from there. The storage, in particular, becomes fairly expensive to raise above GB, likely because of the device's uncommon SSD type. Much of the price premium comes from the high-end and unique design, but the spec-per-dollar and attractive entry price are both diminished compared to the Pro 7.
Then, finally, the accessories. We mentioned the price of each item, but the total cost really grows quickly if you want everything. The Pro 8 is a very nice device, but that is certainly on the expensive side for the spec loadout and for a small screen some professionals may struggle to do their full workload on versus a traditional laptop.
We recently revised our laptop and Windows tablet testing suite, so our pool of comparison systems for the Pro 8 is a little limited compared with what it would have been a year ago. Many of those older laptops and tablets are long gone from PC Labs and could not be retested. We did pull together, however, some late-model Windows tablets including the ThinkPad X12 mentioned earlier , and a couple of non-detachable 2-in-1s and a key clamshell the ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 , outfitted similarly to the Pro 8 at a slightly higher price.
Also in the mix are the Surface Laptop Studio high-end! Here's a summary of the specs of our test lot The main benchmark of UL's PCMark 10 simulates a variety of real-world productivity and content-creation workflows to measure overall performance for office-centric tasks such as word processing, spreadsheeting, web browsing, and videoconferencing.
See more about how we test laptops. Three benchmarks focus on the CPU, using all available cores and threads, to rate a PC's suitability for processor-intensive workloads. Finally, we use the open-source video transcoder HandBrake 1.
Our last productivity test is workstation specialist Puget Systems' PugetBench for Photoshop , which uses the Creative Cloud version 22 of Adobe's famous image editor to rate a PC's performance for content creation and multimedia applications.
It's an automated extension that executes a variety of general and GPU-accelerated Photoshop tasks ranging from opening, rotating, resizing, and saving an image to applying masks, gradient fills, and filters. Thermal room to breathe and thus keep up sustained performance will generally favor clamshell designs, which will by the chassis makeup have more leeway to vent in heavy workloads.
We'd also like to note the quiet operation during these stress tests. Even after 10 minutes of crunching through repeat runs of the CPU-intensive Cinebench, the Pro 8's fans were audible if you listened for it, but if anything were quieter than average despite the slim design.
There is active cooling happening beneath the hood, but the Pro 8 kept surprisingly quiet through testing, which hasn't always been true for Surface Pro devices.
It's not totally silent under load—there is heat that must be dispersed—but it's still commendable. We also run two tests from the cross-platform GPU benchmark GFXBench 5, which stresses both low-level routines like texturing and high-level, game-like image rendering. The p Aztec Ruins and p Car Chase tests, rendered offscreen to accommodate different display resolutions, exercise graphics and compute shaders using the OpenGL programming interface and hardware tessellation respectively.
The more frames per second fps , the better. There's less surprise here, as many of the players in this lot are relying on the same basic Intel Iris Xe Graphics silicon on their varied CPUs. None of the Xe systems is more than a casual gamer see our examination of laptop integrated graphics in , but the performance is within expectations for what it is.
We make sure the battery is fully charged before the test, with Wi-Fi and keyboard backlighting turned off. As for the battery life, consider that this is a greater-thanp, bright touch panel operating in a tight chassis that has to host the core system electronics and the battery all behind the screen.
That's a lot of demands and potential drain. That the Pro 8 managed more than We didn't expect it to top most of our test field above, including many of the conventional clamshells and pivoting 2-in-1s. Remember, those models can bunk the battery in their lower halves; the Pro 8 can't. We detailed our impressions of the screen earlier, and our tests bore them out.
The peak brightness was better than most of the test field here not named "Surface," and full coverage of sRGB, plus creditable coverage of the DCI-P3 and Adobe RGB space, define a powerful-enough panel for creative pros. You buy a device like this to use anywhere, and the brightness, especially, is a boon in on-the-go situations where you may not have control over the ambient light where you need to work. A high peak brightness like on the Pro 8 can help you power through those situations by cranking it all the way up albeit with a cost in battery life.
While the Surface Pro 8 doesn't revolutionize the Pro line to its core, it does deliver the most meaningful update to the product in years.
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