Microsoft Surface Pro 11 Update

Here is my first update on my experience with the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 for 2024.
-TDD

[christianr.]

I’m looking at this more as an iPad replacement than a pc replacement. Love the portability, battery life, silent nature and pen support of the iPad. But I’ve gotten frustrated with its software limitations. So whatever compatibly issues this thing has, is still leaps and bounds better than the iPads lack of software because of the simple reason that apple doesn’t want it there

[GeneralX-sm]

I personally will never buy another Intel device. Bought the Surface pro 11 and it’s the best windows experience I’ve had. I’ve ran into no compatibility issues and don’t expect this laptop to slow down like all of my Intel laptops have. This has replaced my iPad and MacBook and I’m happy to be back on windows OS.

[EnochGitongaKimathi]

The thing I love with the Surface Pro 11 is it offers a full desktop OS in a tablet format. I do wish the UI was more optimised for Touch and smaller screens.

[Irresistibleirish]

Look it will take time . This is actually made me more interested than anything. I'm not gonna jump immediately but surely next purchase

[mademedothis]

For the laptops I agree that I'd take performance some of the time, or more accurately I'd take a bigger battery and trade off weight instead.

But the Surface? The Surface is a big phone with Windows in it already. It's a media consumption device with a keyboard to write emails. It needs two things: running a browser and staying on.

The Surface's biggest flaw has always been its battery life. It's the reason I brought a second device with me when travelling. I don't need it to be the most performant thing. For that, ASUS makes a hybrid with a discrete GPU in it for the same price. What I want from Surface Pro is basically meeting the iPad Pro where that's at with a full desktop OS and that kickstand form factor which should be the default for all tablets.

On that front, this is enticing, although I'd like to get more granular info on how much better the battery life is on normal tasks and with no fan noise. The fast on/off with no battery drain is a big plus already, though, because traditional Intel windows portable devices have unacceptable behavior when on sleep. The first time someone got their laptop bag hotboxed by a laptop that seemed to be turned off except for radiating the heat of a small star the entire thing should have been reworked from scratch.

[fatyak]

Framing mode is quite useful, with earphones I can put the Surface on the counter and do something else while talking still being visible, I can leave my daughter in front of it and let her mother see her despite fact that she's always on the move.
Anyway thank you your video. Waiting for long term review!

[sasmitha]

Can you check out the ASIO driver compatibility and audio production performance?

[a]

The benchmark are not synthetic. They are real. Even software going through translation later gets 85% performance compared to Intel 13th Gen. It's real, man.
Battery life in snapdragon goes as far as 27hrs. That's far much more than you can ever dream to get.
These things are highly recommended. Your recommendations seem to be highly personal than factual.
Native arm software has crazy performance far much more than x86. Same with Apple, these speeds are just synthetic.

[Eeriekid]

Can you test out drawing applications? Can this handle photoshop, clip paint studio, krita, etc? Does it emulate those well. Any pen lag? Can it handle large brush size and canvas sizes? In other words is this a good ARM Device for artists?

[Lead_Foot]

My flex keyboard is not working wirelessly. I've had to reset windows once and i've had a dozen BSODs in 3 days.

[melaleucatree]

Thank you for your honest feedback and review on this device. Would you say these new ARM surface devices (pro 11 or laptop) are great for cosing purposes? Running Visual Studio, SQL server, Postman etc?

[MrHenriquez]

How is the writing experience on the OLED screen?

[RetroGunzy]

I think it's in a really good spot as your Tablet + mobile PC device. Perhaps paired with a desktop PC at home.

[rayharris]

I have to say that you have a lot of technical information at your fingertips, and that's a good thing for any reviewer. For me, though, you seem to enjoy the sound of your own voice too much - you tend to pontificate on, mostly, areas of opinion rather than the other. Not to say you can't give an opinion in moderation, but when elaborated too much and too often it very distinctly comes across as implying motive and, perhaps, criticism based primarily upon your opinion.

[Mahesha]

Why I feel these all devices going surface x way?

[davidmorris]

The screen looks very reflective. My only bugbear with my Surface pro 8 is how reflective the screen is., especially in a brightly lit office. Is there a matte or glossy finish on the screen?

[JogBird]

its insane that the kb and pen cost as much as a PS5 which is FAR more complicated

[aliahmadazad]

Hey, for how long we can use detached flax keyboard to move its charge to 30%.

[davezhu]

I care a lot about compatibility. Do some STEM apps work on this ARM chip? like MATLAB, Python, Origin, Chemdraw, MestReNova, etc

[Abarenboshogun]

Wouldnt you need an OlEd to notice how good an OLED display is?