The Microsoft Surface Pro X is a light device for browsing the web and doing general office work. However, creative applications for Windows on ARM are not natively supported, which makes it hard to sell to people who work in creative fields. It works well enough as a second device if you already have the right hardware to run the software you need, but even then, older Surface Pro devices with Intel processors are better.
The 13-inch screen has a resolution of 2880×1920 and an aspect ratio of 3:2. It looks a little more modern than other Surface devices on the market because the thick bezels on the Surface Pro 7 have been slimmed down. It still doesn’t look as modern as other tablet devices, especially since its bezels are still thicker than those of the iPad Pro line, even though they are thinner. However, the screen design makes it look less like an old device.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]Specifications
- Size: 287 mm x 208 mm x 7.3 mm
- Weight: 774g (1.7 lb)
- Processor: Microsoft SQ1 or SQ2 ARM chip
- Resolution: 2880 x 1920
- Screen: 13-inch PixelSense™ Display
- Storage: Up to 512GB SSD (PCIe, NVMe, M.2)
- Battery: Up to 9 hours 10 minutes
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You get 267 pixels per inch (PPI), which is the same as the Surface Pro 7 because the screen size and resolution are different. This means that even though the screen is bigger, the image is not clearer. You also get about 96% sRGB coverage and 450 nits of brightness, which is great but not as good as the 120% sRGB color gamut and 550 nits on the 2020 iPad Pro 12.9-inch, which is also priced around the same.
If you’re thinking about buying the Surface Slim Pen 2, it has 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity. For comparison, that’s the same as what you’d get with many cheap display tablets like the Wacom One. It’s good enough for any illustration or graphic design work on Photoshop, but it’s only about half as much as you’d get with the more powerful Wacom products.
Your expectations for the Surface Pro X’s performance will depend on what kind of customer you are. Using the applications in the Office suite and Microsoft’s own Edge browser was fun, and everything worked well. You’ll notice that other browsers are much slower, which got annoying after using Google Chrome for a few hours.