I noticed that the body seemed much sturdier to me than the iPad Pro does. Since the ARM processor is passive cooled, there are no air vents and it’s completely silent. While that looks quite elegant, it also means that you’ll see fingerprints much easier. Instead of a magnesium alloy, Microsoft is using a black aluminum body with rounded edges now. The tablet is thinner than the Surface Pro 7 with its 7.3mm but it weighs about the same at under 800g. Because of that, the screen bezels on the sides are very slim now. They managed to increase the screen size from 12.3 to 13 inches without making the body bigger. Regarding this, every Surface has been excellent in the past and with the Surface Pro X, Microsoft improved the design of the Pro series even more. While that's impressive for a device this thin and light, it's just an hour more runtime than the more capable Surface Pro 7 and well below other ARM-powered Windows PCs.We’re starting this review with the design and build quality. My battery life was as low as 6 hours when using an x86 app like Google Chrome, but switching to Microsoft's ARM-based Edge browser boosted battery life closer to the 9 hour mark. Microsoft's app solution has implications for battery life too, as emulating apps consume more juice. I did come across a community initiative on Reddit that lists the apps that are supported and not supported on the Surface Pro X based on user testing, which can be viewed here. The problem is that there is really no definite way to know what will work and what won't before buying, as Microsoft doesn't maintain any sort of online resource when it comes to app compatibility and doesn't communicate the issue well to consumers.

Other hardware accessories and peripherals such as printers mightn't work either, unless their drivers have been designed for a Windows 10 ARM-based PC. Even Microsoft's own 'Your Phone' app ran extremely poorly with constant connectivity issues. In my testing I found app compatibility to be a bit of a crapshoot, with some apps like Netflix and Stan letting me watch one video before crashing, and Dropbox not working at all.

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