It wasn’t only one of the best laptop keyboards around, but also the best detachable laptop keyboard we’d ever seen. This isn’t a bad thing as the former TypeCover was truly excellent. However, you might find it hard to tell the difference as hardly anything has changed from the Surface Pro 4’s keyboard. Microsoft has also updated the Surface Pro’s TypeCover keyboard. Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) review: TypeCover keyboard This display should be perfect for photo editing as it covers almost 95% of the sRGB colour spectrum and the gorgeous 2736 x 1824 screen means that both video and pictures will look super sharp and full of detail. Brightness is blazing, and the levels of deep contrast ensure it is great for office work as well as watching films. The quality of the 12.3in PixelSense screen is immediately evident, underlining how Microsoft has built this device for graphic designers. Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) review: DisplayĪs you can probably guess, the display is also excellent. That's an absolutely stonking result - especially given the amount of performance on display - and you can count on Microsoft's new hybrid to power you through even the most demanding workdays, and then some. In our battery tests, the Surface Pro lasted more than 11 and a half hours. In fact, that's approaching the kind of speeds we'd expect from a desktop PC.Ĭonvertible devices are sometimes a little lacking in the battery department, but that's not the case here.

Not only is that considerably better than any other Microsoft device to date, but it's also beating out pretty much all of its competition from the likes of HP and Dell. Our Core i7 review unit, paired with 16GB of RAM, racked up an astounding overall score of 102. Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) review: Specs and performanceĪlthough it's now been surpassed by Intel's 8th-generation Coffee Lake chips, the Surface Pro's Kaby Lake processor is still frighteningly fast. The exception to this is some rather beefy upgrades to the internal hardware, which combined with the classic design looks like a recipe for success. Thankfully, it appears that Microsoft has changed very little with its latest hybrid, keeping the same look and feel as its predecessor with only minor tweaks to its features and functionality. Matching its combination of speed and portability is no mean feat. The successor to the Surface Pro 4 has big shoes to fill though that device was not just one of our favourite hybrids of 2015, but one of our favourite laptops overall. Now we have the latest addition to the line, simply dubbed the Surface Pro.

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