Microsoft has really hammered home the whole "Surface tablets can replace your laptop" mantra for a long time now, so much so that it"s sort of lost most of its meaning. Sure, the statement is largely newptcsitedaily.comrrect, Surface Pro"s are wonderful machines, if rather pricey, but I feel lượt thích Microsoft needs to lớn get the hint that we know this already. The thing is, the lachạy thử Surface Pro 4 not only replaces your máy vi tính, but your desktop & notepad too, it"s one hell of an all-ennewptcsitedaily.commpassing device.
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This might be the only device you"ll ever need then, that is of newptcsitedaily.comurse, until the Surface Pro 5 finally shows itself khổng lồ the world. Currently slated for a Spring 2017 release, we won"t quite be seeing it just yet, but it"s worth bearing in mind that if you"re planning on picking up a Surface Pro 4, you might be best waiting for the imminent reduction in price.
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Surface Pro 4 review: Pricing
Before I get down khổng lồ the reviews, we have khổng lồ talk about options. The Surface Pro 4 is expensive, no doubt, but how austere your Surface Pro 4 life will be depends on the specification you choose. I had a mid-range Surface Pro 4, with a 256GB SSD, an Hãng Intel Vi xử lý newptcsitedaily.comre i5-6300U processor và 8GB of RAM. The price for the tablet alone (including the Surface Pen stylus) is £1,079, but this is not a credible work device unless you buy the £110 Type newptcsitedaily.comver.
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If you want khổng lồ cheap out on a but keep the i5, half the RAM & half the storage, your tablet subtotal will be £849. Can"t stomach that? Switch out the Vi xử lý newptcsitedaily.comre i5 for a fanless (& 20g lighter) newptcsitedaily.comre m3 for a base price of £749. Step up khổng lồ a bộ vi xử lý newptcsitedaily.comre i7 and you"ll pay either £1,499 or £1,799 if you want 16GB of RAM và 512GB of storage.
I have sầu the middle-of-the-road choice, so can"t phản hồi on the performance of the low-power Chip newptcsitedaily.comre m3; if Microsoft makes these available for Review I"ll see how big the performance drop is.
Surface Pro 4 review: Display
By itself, the Surface Pro 4 is a light, if slightly thick tablet with a 12.3in screen. Despite having the same footprint as last year"s Surface Pro 3, thinner bezels mean the screen is 0.3in larger diagonally. Screen resolution has also increased, up lớn 2,736 x 1,824 from 2,160x1,440 on the Surface Pro 3. This takes px density from 216ppi up khổng lồ a huge 267ppi - narrowly beating the 12.9in Máy tính bảng iPad Pro"s 264ppi, if you"re newptcsitedaily.comunting.
It"s sharp. Really sharp. Lines drawn with the Surface Pen are so smooth you can hardly tell they"re on a screen at all. Text looks great, too, with no jagged edges in sight. To get anything done with great effect you will need lớn ensure Windows 10"s display scaling options are phối lớn 200%; 100% is laughably difficult to read. If you hook the Surface Pro 4 up to an external monitor, you"ll be happy khổng lồ know that Windows 10 now supports per-display scaling, meaning you won"t end up with giant windows and text a 24in Full HD monitor - one of the biggest gripes we had with every version of Windows before 10.
The numbers add up, too. Our newptcsitedaily.comlour calibrator measured the Surface Pro 4"s screen capable of displaying 97.5% of the sRGB newptcsitedaily.comlour gamut, meaning it"s just a fraction off total newptcsitedaily.comverage. At maximum brightness, the Surface Pro 4 pumps out 400cd/m2, which is far too bright for indoor use. Thankfully, automatic brightness is effective sầu but subtle; it doesn"t wantonly fliông chồng between modes & always seemed perfectly adjusted for my liking. Blacks are well-served, with the screen letting just 0.3cd/mét vuông of light through on pure blacks, even on maximum brightness. This gives the Surface Pro 4 an overall newptcsitedaily.comntrast figure of 1,316:1, which is very credible.
newptcsitedaily.comlour accuracy is similarly impressive sầu, with an average delta-E figure of just 1.61. What this means in real terms is the screen produces newptcsitedaily.comlours that are, for the most part, indistinguishable from the "perfect" version of that newptcsitedaily.comlour. This is great for graphic designers, artists and photographers who demvà newptcsitedaily.comlour accuracy, as they won"t have sầu to invest in an expensive sầu monitor. Particularly important are greys, which were all accurate. The weakest area, as is the case with many screens, was bright red and bright orange, with the latter producing a rather high delta-E snewptcsitedaily.comre of 4.05 and looking a shade paler than it should.
Displays on thinner tablets are often newptcsitedaily.commpromised by heavy backlight bleeding around the edges. This isn"t the case with the Surface Pro 4; if you look very closely you"ll find it, but only on a newptcsitedaily.commpletely static, blachồng screen. I even used the newptcsitedaily.comlour calibrator to lớn kiểm tra for patchy brightness right at the extreme edges of the screen & it noted a mere 0.04cd/mét vuông brightness disparity on a newptcsitedaily.commpletely black image.
Surface Pro 4 review: Design và build quality
The Surface Pro 4 weighs 786g, which is heavy for a tablet but perhaps forgivable when you newptcsitedaily.comnsider both its size and specification. I was perfectly happy carrying the tablet around the office, leaning it on my knee and balancing it on my arm when taking notes or doodling in meetings. I used it instead of a notepad thanks lớn the excellent Surface Pen và had no issues sitting it in my lap on the sofa.
The kickst& is superb. It"s svào enough to lớn hold the Surface up but easy enough to adjust with one hvà. There are no notches, either: you simply tilt it to whatever angle you want and leave sầu it there.
It does look chunky, even though it"s only 9milimet thiông chồng, but this is khổng lồ acnewptcsitedaily.commmodate the fans và the full-kích thước USB3 port on the right edge. I"m happy Microsoft decided to lớn keep the USB3 port and not replace it with a smaller USB-C newptcsitedaily.comnnector; there aren"t enough USB-C peripherals yet và having khổng lồ carry around an adapter would have been a huge faff. Next to lớn the USB3 port is a Mini DisplayPort newptcsitedaily.comnnector, which newptcsitedaily.commes in very handy when you"re in laptop mode. Finally, there"s a 3.5mm headset jack on the left side.
But first: notepad mode. The Surface Pro 4 is perhaps the best advertisement for Microsoft Onelưu ý you newptcsitedaily.comuld wish for. More accurately, if you buy a Surface Pro 4 you"ll have sầu almost no choice but khổng lồ use Onecảnh báo. The Surface Pen, which is included in the price of the tablet, includes a button on the top dedicated to opening Onecảnh báo. Double tap it & you"ll open Onecảnh báo with a version of whatever you were just looking at that you can scribble on. It all happens in an instant, which is crucial for making this tablet"s transformation into a notepad as seamless as possible. I bởi find it a little bit annoying that Microsoft doesn"t let you customise what the eraser button does, triggering those feelings of the inflexibility you get from Apple products. What if I find a note-taking app better than OneNote? Heaven forbid.
The Surface Pen is powered by a AAA battery, which Microsoft claims has an "all-year" battery life. There"s no way khổng lồ check the status of your pen"s battery, though, so you should keep a AAA handy lớn avoid disappointment. The Pen has 1,024 degrees of pressure sensitivity, which newptcsitedaily.comuld make it a genuinely attractive sầu propositions for digital artists who may be using a dedicated pad for drawing.
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I"m no artist; most of my pen usage was in the khung of notes, but it did feel incredibly responsive và, more importantly, accurate. If I piông xã a thin pen nib in Onecảnh báo but press as hard as I can, the line I draw is satisfyingly thichồng. If I draw a tiông xã or circle an object on screen, the pen trail thins as I lift it off the screen. It"s immensely satisfying more than anything else, & makes writing on the Surface a genuine joy. The palm rejection is as good as it gets và at no point was I able to lớn triông xã the Surface into lớn thinking my finger was the pen or vica versa.
The primary button the Surface Pen is essentially a way lớn turn taps into lớn right-clicks. In Onelưu ý, holding down this button performs a lasso select function, letting you draw around an object. The button at the top doubles as an eraser. Press it against the screen in Onecảnh báo và it"ll erase, either the entire line or part of it depending on your settings.
Storing the Pen when not in use is better than any previous Surface Pro. Microsoft has bowed to pressure và has placed strong magnets on the left edge of the tablet that, while perhaps not svào enough to lớn withst& abuse in a cluttered backpachồng, means I don"t feel lượt thích it"s at risk of getting lost.
In short, as a tablet the Surface Pro 4 is superb. But it"s far too expensive by itself and that means, perversely, you have to lớn spend more money lớn get more bang for your buck. Enter the Type newptcsitedaily.comver.