It’s a similarly impressive story when it comes to charging, although don’t expect smartphone-level speeds. That’s with the brightness set to relatively dim 120 nits, and so not necessarily reflective of real-world usage, but it’s now a device that can comfortably make it through a full 8-hour working day without the safety net of a mains socket. This is where I look to the Surface Laptop Studio, the other white meat that Microsoft announced at the show.I recorded just over 13 hours when playing a 720p video on loop, an above-average result compared to most laptops. Some people have figured it out or love it, but for me, no. In fact, it’s a requirement for me to interact with the operating system. Microsoft might have spent years since Windows 8, trying to figure out how to get Windows to work well with touch, but I still rarely buy into it. Of course, Apple does the same thing, but Apple’s software is also dedicated to the iPad with very little actual need for the additional components. It’s literally just the tablet and a very expensive keyboard sold separately. I wouldn’t expect to do anything too hardcore on the Surface Pro 8, mostly due to the lack of dedicated graphics card, but the built-in Intel Xe graphics have impressed on higher-end models of the new Intel chips, but having experienced it via the Samsung Galaxy Book Pro on the i5, I’d still lean towards going for an i7 in any case.īut here lies the issue I have with the Surface Pro 8 (and still with the Pro 7), which is that even though the Pro 8 is very impressive, there’s still a hard limit in that it still isn’t a complete package.

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