hi I'm mark Hawkins and PCWorld and we're here at the surface launch looking
at their revolutionary surface pro X so the question you're probably asking
yourself if you've heard of the surface pro X what makes it better or worse in
the surface pro 7 the surface pro 7 you're probably familiar with it's a
pretty standard design it's remained constant through several generations the
surface pro X is something different not only different under the hood but also
different in the physical form factor as well and this is what really sets it
apart let's go ahead and take a look so on the surface no pun intended it looks
like a pretty ordinary tablet but look what happens when you pull the keyboard
out you get a pen tray this is the new surface pen 24000 96 points of pressure
but what makes it interesting is the fact that it only hides as cubby but
charges in it as well so if you pull out the pen two things happen one you get
the whiteboard app popping up as well as the option for a full screen snip that's
something that sort of allows you to jump right into collaboration if you put
the pin back in the holder of course it starts to charge and if you fold up the
top of the keyboard like this bingo you've got a pen repository if you've
been fought on the surface line you know that Microsoft's when wrestled with this
for generations the surface pro 3 had a pen loop everything else didn't it
magnetically connected to pens the side of the chassis and that was really
resulted at least from my bag I ended up with pens and the bottom of my bag and
not where they should be using that was a poor solution so let's look at else
what we've got here I'm a side of the chassis we've got the
traditional power button of course we've got a surface connector which is both
good Microsoft said they engineered this to make sure it was usable with existing
surface connector the surface dock if you go over and on this side of the
tablet you get something a little bit more modern two pair of USB seaports
these aren't Thunderbolt they will serve supposedly to run a 4k display but again
the fact the matter is of the world is shifting USBC and Microsoft really
needed to have this it should be pointed out that the service pro 7 also has a
single USBC port but if you're looking for a more advanced design this is what
you're looking for what really sets us apart though of course is the internals
and this has a custom-designed sq1 ship inside of it now there's been a lot of
talk about this being a qualcomm snapdragon 8c X chip that's in fact is
what is it in here the 8 ZX chip as you may know is
something that Qualcomm has touted as being comparable
core i5 that core i5 is in fact a whiskey Lake processor which is slightly
behind the surface Pro's seven surface pro seven reasons attempt gen ice Lake
processor which in fact means pretty heavily in the graphics if you watch our
surface pro seven video you'll learn a little bit more about that but as far as
this is concerned this in fact is an up clocked eight CX chip Microsoft said it
worked closely with Qualcomm to make sure the performance was even more
powerful than before and have even fallen from the history of Qualcomm in
the PC you should know of course that performance has been one of the issues
that Qualcomm has somewhat struggled with there's been issues of
compatibility and just conjunction with it after the Windows operating system
but just running those apps more powerfully enough to make them usable
and without lag it's been something that again have struggled with what you'll
find here on this machine in our demonstration area is the fact that
Microsoft is using sort of optimized apps you see edge you see sort of the
edge iam beta this is sort of the chromium based edge
you're not seeing chrome you're not seeing some of these other more
performant apps they want to sort of maximize the experience that's fine
that's go ahead you know just give them the best opportunity they can track that
is and the keyboard is essentially the same as the surface pro seven we've got
really nothing you know two different as far as the keyboard or the keys are
concerned there's one of the thing that we should probably note about this what
a Qualcomm strengths not only is battery life but is connectivity of course if
you have a Snapdragon base phone we're connected right this office the
same sort of thing I don't see any SIM card slot here but Microsoft did tell us
that the factor is I guess going to be a option for a physical sim there's going
to be an ECM option as well again the point being that we should
have and always connect the PC and the surface pro X is what is going to
provide that the question you're going to ask right now is what should I mind
we were told that this the surface pro X is in fact the most powerful surface pro
device they've made again I'm a little skeptical that fact I think we're going
to have a seat performance estimates to find that out but these are the facts
sort of two different machines doing two different machines service Pro X all-day
battery life moderate some great performance we're not quite sure in the
performance side point service pros six I'm sorry service pro seven probably
leaves a lot no heavily-armored graphics also pretty good performance as well
there's one other thing that we should think talk about though and that is the
price this in fact is a nine machine the service pro 7 actually
starts life at $7.99 it's hard to say exactly if this is in fact is going to
be a more powerful more expensive machine there's going to be different
configurations of course this is and we can just figure this out right now
this actually has 16 gigs of memory in it which is pretty good we have I think
probably either 256 or 512 gigs of storage which probably comparably had
256 gigs of storage problem probably comparable in service 407 so again all
they've come to call the battery life connectivity surface pro 7 a little bit
more in the traditional form factor and performance as well the nice thing is
though that you have a choice between the two and until we get them into labs
we really can't say for certain which to buy but again choice is good and choice
is great and really we're talking about something new being added to servers
line so that's it for the surface pro X stay tuned for more from the service
launch as well as from PC world Kali