Is the Surface Pro 4 a secret emulation BEAST in 2024?

Let's find out the answer to the question, "Is the Surface Pro 4 a secret emulation beast in 2022?" I will give you a hint, most likely not. However, it is quite fun to see how far you can push emulation on such a poorly designed laptop...tablet? What is this thing?

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro
0:41 Storytime
1:59 The Plan
2:49 Atari/NES
3:02 SNES/Genisis
3:30 Gameboy
3:40 N64
3:55 Playstation
4:16 GBA
4:26 Gamecube
4:36 PS2
4:47 Xbox Original
4:57 NDS
5:25 PSP
5:43 Wii
6:01 PS3
6:12 Xbox 360
6:25 3DS
6:36 Wiiu
6:51 PS4/Xbox One
7:23 Next Gen
7:37 Outro

[jamaicansole]

0:01 holy bleep! Answered the thumbnail question, right of the bat.. thank you for not click baiting us

[clydemarshall]

Funny thing is I am watching this on a Surface Pro 4 that so far as I know was never replaced or bricked during its use by my mother before being handed down to me.

[JoseOrtiz-pcmg]

I have a PRO 7+ and this thing is impressive. Versatile, durable and it GAMES! I have easily played GTA5 and many other games. Mine is PRO7+ with a i5 11th gen with 8gigs. No lag on WORD, EXCEL, or anything else. Going on two years and not a single blue screen, EVER! Maybe the PRO4 is garbage but I can surely say that mine has never gave me issue. Battery is really good too!!

[romanithedino]

Well done. Sorry I had to bail during live premiere. Discord notifs were good. Glad I saw them and got in in time for the start of the vid.

[WiiMan]

A couple days ago I got a surface pro nine and I gotta say it’s a kick ass laptop. It’s pretty snappy with multitasking, but I didn’t do gaming yet. The 16 gig ram sure as hell helps but I’m not sure if it’s single channel or duel channel for surface pros even if the processor is a 12th generation Intel, I seven with a base speed caulking at 2.6 GHz.

[johnnylinares]

He has a 4 gb ram no wonder it couldn't run anything for you.i have a i7 16 gb ram it's a beast

[itzzjokrzz]

i have the surface pro 3 i5 model and i still use it for minor things like netflix and on the go travel, never had any problems with it as of yet, except for a couple of bsods in its life its been pretty stable

[aresnightgod]

If you need a perfect university surface tablet buy the surface 6 pro! It has the best battery life, best performance, best smoothness, best everything. I have the surface 6 pro i5, 8gb, 128gb + 65gb and i am IN LOVE.

[yahiaibrahim]

Bro, I have the pro 8 i7, I open 250 canon camera images in photoshop at the same time and edit them with no issues! I use two semiconductor fans while doing so and other heavy lifting. It's a pure monster.

[oscarl.]

I'm on SP6 right now. Good to know you can get a controller with bluetooth.

[th_ne__]

I’m running a surface pro 2017, it is maxed out but it very much impressed me with what it could do. Light switch and Xbox 360 games, a good amount of Wii games, some older triple a titles (I tried metal gear rising, metal gear solid 5 (that one surprised me the absolute most) gta 5, gta 4, need for speed carbon and a lot of titles around that era) and they ram locked at 30 or 60. In my personal opinion, the sp4 and newer will still do good enough for daily use if you debloat and lighten the system, maybe even change the battery out for a new one. As for physical issues, something I’ve noticed happened to my pro 5 and my fathers pro 4 is that the touchscreen would just touch and hold on the right edge of the screen, turns out this was from years of use and it was easily fixed by a calibration tool. Needless to say I am very happy with my surface experience, I currently have a surface book 3 with a 1660ti max q and will continue to use this until I deem fit.

[hyugatoni.]

How could they not recover your files? I own a repair shop and whenever I got a dead not repairable surface I'd just take it apart and put the M.2 drive (that MOST surfaces have depending on storage option) into a different computer and or put it into an M.2 to USB converter and give it to them.

[ramiy]

Your are making very good content! Keep up the good work 👍

[HamguyBacon]

I think most of the problems you had was due to how the emulator was coded, for example not having vulkan support since Microsoft uses its own version of intel HD graphics driver that does not support openGL

[conandude]

actually, microsoft did a silent recall (didn't recall it, just put a deadline up for a known issue and if you sent your's in in time, they would replace the battery controller and the screen), if you didn't make it by the dead line, or bought one after deadline that was on the shelf since then and never got replaced, you were sol when it died 5 weeks or so later as the store only did 30 day, and microsoft wouldn't honor any warrenty at all. Now I have one that won't boot, and had had the fuzzy screen issues that plagued them at launch.
I've heard louis rossman and a few others will do screen replace and battery controller swap, but the cost involved you can just go get another, more modern and powerful, device.

[peterouspensky]

Mine is 8GB version, still works great!

[waddahrasengan]

I also bought SP4(i7, 16gb). Man, i don't think I will ever recover from the trauma and I will never ever buy anything Microsoft again or recommend it to anyone.
After it i went straight and bought a MacBook pro 13. It just works everything works. No screen flickering no overheating no dead battery next day after charging it to 100% before sleeping. Dual boot both MacOS and Windows.

[freeranger]

I have two Pro 4s and a Pro 3 and the only time they have shut down is because of overheating due to me blocking the ventilation grills or using them with red hot sun shining directly on them. Either yours were from a bad batch or you are causing it to over heat, I suspect the latter.

[ragecandy]

you obviously did something wrong if you can't run gba

[robertopallaro]

as argentinian, we can get one for 10 minimun wages, i have a surface 4 pro, that i get used, at work pretty well