The grip is way better and it’s way more comfortable and secure while holding with one hand.

To make it more one handed friendly, but without making it bulky and cumbersome with a case, I installed a skin and an adhesive handle. The rounded nature of the sides make it also a little bit awkward when plugging something in the usb c ports, as those ones are recessed behind the edge of the device, with no visual on them. For comparison, the tablet part of the Surface Book, with its squared sides, is much more easier to hold with one or two hands.

The roundness make it hard to have a good grip, with the body being a little bit slippery. Something I noticed while using the Pro X is the rounded nature of the sides make it a little bit difficult to use with one hand. However, I would have really liked more it in the Platinum variant, but no way I will spend that kind of money. Yes, with the Pro 8 is now boasting the same design now, but it was no there when I bought it, and I don’t want to spend the money that comes with a new device. I was able to get that whole package for shy of $1K CAD.Īs I mentioned, I fell in love with small bezel design of the tablet, form factor and thinness of the device. SQ1, 8GB ram, 128GB SSD (Sk Hynix), upgraded to a 512 GB SSD (Samsung PM991a) So hey, feel free to ask any questions (I could always even try Linux with the old ssd…).Īlso, I must specify I only used it with the beta Windows 11, so I have no clue how the Pro X fare normally with Windows 10, and some stuff I encountered might be more related to the beta nature of the software I’m using. I intent to update occasionally this review with new discovery if relevant, or answer any question you might have. So at the end I found one used at a good price and got it, and here’s my experience and my thoughts with it up to now. However being an ARM computer, it offers a kind of challenge that was attractive to me, being stuck in “project mode” since the beginning of the pandemic. I tried hard to convince to go for a Surface Go 2 instead, being lighter and more one-handful. But with Windows 11 beta now there, it became enticing to try Windows on ARM. I remember seeing the Pro X when it launched, I was in awe with the design, but definitely knew it would be a bad idea to get one, especially with the price. So I bought my Surface Pro X with the intent of having a light and portable laptop that I could easily carry around the house during the week-end or when travelling (when whenever that would be possible (omg I need to travel)).

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