
Microsoft claims that the Surface Pro X provides 3x more power per watt than the Surface Pro 6.Īlongside the SQ1 is an AI accelerator that brings impressive levels of computational power to the hybrid. Co-designed by Microsoft and Qualcomm, it’s a 7W chipset – compared to 2W of most ARM processors – and offers 2 teraflops of power. The big new thing however has to be the aforementioned Surface SQ1 processor. EDITOR’S PICK: Surface Laptop 3 launched: brings new 15” size with Ryzen Surface Edition processor The big kicker is that the Surface Pro X features two USB-C ports over the Surface Pro 7’s single port. There’s a new Surface Slim Pen nestled in the keyboard, and there’s even wireless charging onboard. It boasts a resolution of 2880×1920 resolution, giving it 267ppi. The screen has been expanded from a 12-inch panel on the old Surface Pro to a 13-inch display, which the company says offers the thinnest bezels on any 2-in-1 laptop.

Design-wise, the Surface Pro X is the thinnest of the newly announced Surface range at 5.3mm and weighs only 762g, which is impressive when you consider some of the advanced features on offer. The Surface Pro X offers key features of the Surface Pro 7 alongside other extras that make it one of the most interesting 2-in-1s to come to the market in 2019.

Next to the also just released Surface Pro 7, you could argue that this is the true new flagship. It’s been hard for Windows devices to break free of the Intel grasp, but Microsoft‘s giving it another shot with the new 13-inch Surface Pro X, a new tablet running Windows on an ARM-based Microsoft-custom version of a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the SQ1.
