It’s an optional accessory but I’d say it’s absolutely essential. Without the Signature Keyboard, it is not worth the cost I was hoping for something better from Microsoft after all these years, but alas, maybe it’ll have to wait for a future iteration in the Surface line. From over ten hours with 60Hz enabled to under eight hours with 120Hz toggled on. But that 120Hz will kill the above-average battery life. This is a delightful tablet in day-to-day usage with one caveat. Thanks to the 120Hz refresh rate, I zipped through my daily tasks with a smile on my face. There was no throttling when performing any of the tasks and the tablet rarely got hot enough for me to stop what I was doing and turn it off for a couple of minutes to let it cool down. With medium-to-heavy usage that included typing, web browsing, photo editing, hours of listening and watching on Spotify and YouTube and the occasional gaming (Football Manager 2021 and TrackMania), I never really had to worry about any such lag. There was never a moment where the 2-in-1 couldn’t handle my day-to-day tasks. I felt like the i7 would be an overkill for my usage and I was right. I got the i5 with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
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Hopefully, it is enabled in a future software update. This, in turn, would save a lot of battery. While understandable, I wish that the tablet supported the Dynamic Refresh Rate which automatically adjusts between 60Hz and 120Hz depending on the app in usage. Microsoft makes the display 60Hz by default (you have to go into the settings to enable the higher refresh rate) to preserve battery life. The top bezel is a little chunky but you do need something to hold on to when using the device as a tablet. If you have opted for the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard, then the keyboard deck will cover the bottom bezel when in laptop mode. It’s a 13-inch (2880 x 1920 resolution) touch display with a 3:2 ratio (for better productivity) and visibly smaller bezels than its predecessors. It’s about an inch better than that of the Surface Pro 7. Yes, the first thing that will jump out at you is the display. In a few situations, it may not balance as well. The only position where the kickstand doesn’t work as well is when you’re laying on a couch or bed and need to use it on your lap. In fact, the kickstand rotates so far back (almost 180 degrees) that you can even use it flat, as a tablet, with the Slim Pen 2 to write some notes. The kickstand holds up well and you can get the desired angle that you want without an issue. It’s an in-built kickstand which means you don’t need any fancy cover with a stand. Having opened and closed the kickstand dozens of times since I received my tablet, I can safely say that it is sturdy as ever. The in-built kickstand is absolutely brilliant I mean, the tablet itself is as far away from a laptop replacement as something like a Samsung Galaxy Fold (a foldable smartphone). This is why it is all the more baffling that the keyboard and stylus are sold separately. Microsoft has positioned the Surface line of tablets as a “laptop replacement” for quite some time now. Why does Microsoft still sell the SP8 without the keyboard cover and stylus? So, it’s only a matter of time until the Surface Pro 8 is launched in the country. Microsoft recently launched Surface Go 3, the cheapest in the Surface line of tablets. When it does come, one can expect it to be priced upward of a lakh, especially when bundled with the Surface Pro Signature Keyboard and Slim Pen 2 combo which is sold separately. The company has just said “sometime in 2022” for now. The Surface Pro 8 that I bought from the USA hasn’t yet launched in India and Microsoft hasn’t indicated when it is coming to the country. This is the device that fans of Microsoft’s Surface line of tablets have been clamouring for many years.įor the most part, the Surface Pro 8 lives up to Microsoft’s claims of it being a tablet that could finally replace the laptop. The Surface Pro 8 comes with a larger 13-inch display, including its 3:2 ratio, Thunderbolt 4 port, Intel Evo’s prowess on the inside, a multi-angle kickstand, and a full-sided Type Cover. So, when its successor, the Surface Pro 8-the first major Surface update/redesign since 2015-was launched in the United States in October, I was excited and immediately swapped my Surface Pro 7+ for the Surface Pro 8. Having purchased the Surface Pro 7+ over the summer (it initially launched in the USA in January 2021), I wasn’t thoroughly happy with many of its features. It was just a slightly faster tablet than the one that came before it. The Microsoft Surface Pro 8 is exactly the 2-in-1 laptop that I had been waiting for.
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