Microsoft Surface Pro X Review: DON'T BUY IT (unless you know what you're doing)

The Microsoft Surface Pro X is a fantastic tablet. It offers a great design, a pretty screen, and excellent accessories with its keyboard cover and Surface Slim Pen. However, since it's shipping with a Microsoft SQ1 ARM processor, you can't install all Windows apps. While Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and even Chrome run great, others like Photoshop run poorly. And many games and programs like Adobe Premiere Pro can't be installed at all. It's a great choice if you're looking for a high-end premium tablet for office work only. But everybody else should get the Surface Pro 7 instead.

What do you think of the Microsoft Surface Pro X?

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[eriksteyn]

On which Surface Pro can install 3rd party apps example teamviewer, etc

[Vinank]

You said a great point! For most applications you recommended iPad Pro

And this device doesn’t compete with Surface pro 7 it’s not comparable but it does compete with Tab S6 or iPad Pro

now to give some perspective, over 350 millions iPads have been sold till date.... just last quarter iPads made close to 7billion in revenues and surface devices altogether made just 1billion

From a value stand point, there is no reason a developer will try to spend more resources to make software/apps for a 4th platform, WoA being 4th where a developer already spends a lot for x86/x64, iOS and Android

Unless Microsoft pushes really hard for this device to be sold in millions by cutting the price, giving deals etc;
which they cannot do because that will cannibalise their other surface line-ups thus antagonising distributors and retailers

Surface Pro X with WoA is doomed just like it happened with windows mobile

I had a Lumia and then the gorgeous HP Elite X3, spectacular device, way ahead of its time, it had USB-C 3.1 in 2015, had iris scanner in 2015 but in 4 years time developers left the platform, Whatsapp broke in 2019, security updates stopped and finally MS gave up and HP went quiet consumers like me ended up with a $800 brick!

If you want windows go surface pro 7 ( which doesn’t have LTE btw and it will never as it would hurt and compete with the sales of Pro X, MS will never release LTE for pro 7)

Stop trusting WoA....

This Ain’t it Chief! This Ain’t it!

[lakshitsharma]

Can we run fusion 360 Or solidworks 3D software on pro x

[mirulmanan]

Please review the lenovo tab m7 with 2gb ram

[mmoarchives]

i don't get it, why would microsoft do this? they could knock the ipad pro out of the water by offering complete flexibility with powerful tablet hardware, this compatibility issue is a deal killer, come on microsoft, just because apple does this shit with software apps, don't mean you should do it too, making my own software choices is why i choose windows, so act like a windows platform with your surface family

[msp]

Surface computer-tablets are for white-collar professionals and traveling business folks. They are NOT for the peasant class, gamers, or hobbyists (video/photo editing). If you use or are interested in an iPad Pro you clearly don't need a light-weight portable computer, so Apple's big iPhone is perfect for you...lol

[MrWhiterunGuard]

Microsoft seems to have missed the mark on this one, they should have released it as a 10" mobile device in the $500 starting price range.

[moralesjourneyman]

If you're only going to be using Chrome and Office, why not just get a cheap Chromebook?

[carmennooner]

That's an expensive TV, for me anyway. I'll stick with Chromebooks, and for portability my Samsung Tab A for the kitchen. Nice review, as always.

[twistedoracle]

ARM will never succeed on Windows with this strategy.