I have a SP7 and I hate this thing. Mine is the i5 model so it’s passively cooled. Doing anything besides light internet browsing and this thing heat soaks so fast, then throttles horribly. Battery life isn’t very great either unless I’m doing very light tasks. And windows on a tablet still kinda just sucks.
The SP8 finally fixed performance with all models getting a fan so Windows Update won’t nuke the device for an hour to do a basic update. But with Intel battery life is always going to be compromised. If they put an AMD CPU in there those things would be really neat, but it’s Intel’s baby so it’s going to have at least some issues. If they could make a Surface Pro X that isn’t garbage it might be amazing. Or if they got the M3 CPU into it then it would actually be a useful “pro” tablet unlike the iPad Pro.
I have a SP7 and I hate this thing. Mine is the i5 model so it’s passively cooled. Doing anything besides light internet browsing and this thing heat soaks so fast, then throttles horribly. Battery life isn’t very great either unless I’m doing very light tasks. And windows on a tablet still kinda just sucks.
The SP8 finally fixed performance with all models getting a fan so Windows Update won’t nuke the device for an hour to do a basic update. But with Intel battery life is always going to be compromised. If they put an AMD CPU in there those things would be really neat, but it’s Intel’s baby so it’s going to have at least some issues. If they could make a Surface Pro X that isn’t garbage it might be amazing. Or if they got the M3 CPU into it then it would actually be a useful “pro” tablet unlike the iPad Pro.