Are you thinking of getting the Microsoft Surface Pro X? If you are
you're in the right place. This is my full look and review of the Microsoft
Surface pro X. So welcome to the video I'm Mark Brown here with Editors Keys
and I got my hand on the new model of the surface pro X and I've got to say I
paid for this out of my own money so these will be my honest opinions. I went
for the 128GB model with 8GB of RAM and I also purchased
the type cover with the included surface pen. So I've always had a soft spot for
the Microsoft Surface lineup but this year that soft spot has got even bigger.
I mean look at this device! it's absolutely beautiful!
I've got as far as saying this is probably the best-looking PC you can get
on the market right now and I actually prefer the design to my macbook pro.
The new design features tiny bezels on the side of the screen which really make the
device look great. there is a slightly bigger bezel at the top and bottom of
the screen and the top features the windows hello feature this makes it
super fast to log into your device using just your face and if you've ever used
face ID it works just like that I love using it as it makes logging into your
PC an absolute breeze the device is just 7.3mm thin which is crazy the
iPhone 11 pro is 8.mm thin it weighs just 774g and features two
USB-C ports a surface charging port the volume rocker and a power switch and
that's literally it gone is the headphone socket the micro SD card slot
and the standard USB port and you know what I'm fine with that.
USB C is pretty mature now and it means you can pretty much do anything with
these ports as long as you have the right dongle of course the type cover
which still come separately unfortunately is still very good and by
far one of the best mobile typing keyboards there is the key has a really
nice to travel and I much prefer typing on this keyboard than those annoying
butterfly keys on my macbook pro or the iPads smart
keyboard cover the trackpad is also nice and smooth and has gotten a little
bigger too the pen has been redesigned and it really reminds me of the
carpentry pencils my dad had when I was growing up it works the same as previous
surface pens and still features the great eraser feature but when you're
drawing or marking up however it hasn't just got thinner it's also got a new
trick up the tight covers sleeve rather than sticking the pen to the side of the
device which you can still do you simply fold this section down pop in the pen
and it starts charging this design is great as it keeps the pencil safe during
your travels and also keeps it fully charged at all times the screen looks
fantastic and everything we played in 4k looks super bright and sharp the
speakers are also good for the size of the device but they're not going to blow
you away but they do have a nice sound to them so with the techie bits out of
the way is this device any good well you may have heard this actually one's a
little differently from past surface Pro devices it doesn't have an Intel
processor in it it has an ARM processor now what's an ARM processor it's
basically a mobile processor and the reason that Microsoft is chosen to go
for that this time around is that it should enable thinner devices and it
should enable longer battery life but one of the main problems with that is
that if the program hasn't been written for an ARM based processor it may not
run at all or if it does run it mate one very slow now when I heard that I
thought that was going to be a huge mistake by Microsoft you know I have a
load of apps in mind that I use on a daily basis and for me those apps have
to work for me to run my business or do my personal work and those apps were
things like Google Chrome Wunderlist Dropbox Photoshop Lightroom Adobe
Premiere and the office suite and I've got to say I was actually quite
surprised I tried to download all of those apps and actually all of them man
apart from Adobe Premiere which is as a little disappointing but to be honest on
a travel device like this I wouldn't be editing 4k footage on something like
this you know you would need a much bigger faster computer now that said
Photoshop and Lightroom do run but they run in an emulated mode
in 32-bit mode so that essentially means you're not going to get the latest and
greatest version of Adobe Photoshop and it's going to run in 32-bit mode which
is a little bit slower than the 64-bit versions you might be used to so what it
does mean is that you can get a lot of your work done you can edit PS DS and
things like that but you will see a bit of lag especially in things like zooming
in and out in Photoshop which I can show you here so you can see there it's a
little bit laggy and I don't think it's really acceptable in a device this
expensive but my main issue is that you know you may be techy like I am and you
may understand the limitations of an ARM processor but I think the average person
going into a store who's looking for a premium device for work may just go into
the store they'll see the surface pro X I mean it's absolutely beautiful and why
would you not go for it right it looks great it's thin it's light it's premium
it's expensive but it's not super expensive so I think you're gonna have a
lot of people who go into a store they test it out the internet works well you
know word works well and then they get it home and then they have that work
application which may not run at all on this device and they may need to take
the device back I think it's a potential big problem for Microsoft because
they're just expecting people to know what ones and what doesn't run and
that's a huge issue now don't get me wrong I don't think the majority of
users are gonna notice this you know if you just do some Word documents you do a
bit of accounting you do most of your work on web-based apps or online then
you're probably not even going to notice this issue I do think there is a small
use case of people that may have business apps training apps things like
that that are just not gonna work however I think if you're the sort of
person that would usually go for like a 12-inch MacBook Pro this could be the
ideal device for you because you know a device like that isn't gonna run video
editing programs that well either so this could be the ultimate solution if
you are the sort of person who just wants a real lightweight good-looking
device to go around on your travels and do a bit of work in things like
Microsoft Office so with all of that said who would I recommend this device
for I think you know if you're in the market for an ultra portable device
to take with you on the go and you usually go for something like a 12-inch
MacBook then this could be the ultimate device for you it looks great the screen
is great I love the kickstand I love the keyboard all of that is super great I
think though if you're into any kind of photography design video editing
especially you're gonna have to give this a Miss because you can't run
Premiere Pro at the moment at all and then Photoshop even though it can be
used you know this is your main machine then you're gonna find it a little bit
laggy yes you know this is a companion device for your PC or Mac and you know
you can open a PSD and it's gonna be fine
but if you're looking to get this as your main device and you're a
photographer you're a video editor I'm afraid you're gonna have to skip this
now I know a lot of you don't like the comparison between this and the iPad but
I think this year it's kind of a fair comparison you know they're around the
same price they now have both have limitations kind of with processes in a
way because they both can't run full desktop programs you know all the way
through and the iPad in the past to me was not a productive device at all I
would always recommend the surface pro few needed to do any kind of
productivity but since the launch of iOS 13 you can now connect hard drives
there's now a files app and you know the power of the iPad is is pretty
impressive you can actually video edit in 4k on a device like that so if you
can get around not needing to use a mouse you know you can still get
Microsoft Office you can do web apps there's now a full web browser which
kind of emulates the Safari on the desktop so I think potentially the iPad
is even worth considering against the surface pro X it's really up to you let
me know in the comment section below what do you think of this device you
know I think this could potentially be the future for Microsoft if they can
work together with companies like Adobe and they can improve the applications
for arm I think this could be a fantastic device I've been playing
around with edge for arm and that works super fast so you know maybe revisit
this in six months time if Adobe launched a new apps for this if they
rewrite some of the apps like Photoshop I mean
yeah well Lightroom to work with an arm device I actually think this could be
the future of Microsoft but let me know what you think in the comment section
below thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next video