Surface Pro X needs a second look with Windows 11

[soulreaver99]

Was testing this last year for deployment for my company but held off because of the software limitations and unsatisfactory user experience.

The SPX has significantly gotten better over time and like many others who have installed windows 11 on this, it’s a real game changer. I just moved my iPad Pro M1 data plan to this and this thing is truly a versatile mobile office.

If you live your life on Microsoft Office and web based applications, the SPX is an incredible device that needs to be re-evaluated again with Windows 11 by tech reviewers because it’s a completely different device and experience with the new operating system. It’s not like going from iPad OS 14 to 15 ?

 

[ian87w]

How is it different? Maybe some elaboration would be useful for others.

 

[IowaLynn]

I had religated a Surface Go v.1 to a desk drawer, it's 4/64 unable to cope, was bought just to get an inexpensive look at it. W11 really is good, web, email and research mostly. Feels comparable to my Go-2 8/128 unit. So yes, they did something right.

 

[SteveJUAE]

I bought the Mrs the Samsung Book S arm version and its been a great device for her, no problems and spectacular battery endurance

So maybe Win11 will bring some slight improvements for her too

 

[soulreaver99]

How is it different? Maybe some elaboration would be useful for others.

Overall performance is better, GUI is better, Windows Snapping is extremely useful especially for a tablet form factor. Also they brought in support for x86 64-bit app, still far from perfect but it's certainly useable for the most part. MS Office in ARM64 is also available in beta and performance is significantly better... just to name a few things.

 

[soulreaver99]

I bought the Mrs the Samsung Book S arm version and its been a great device for her, no problems and spectacular battery endurance

So maybe Win11 will bring some slight improvements for her too

it most certainly will ?

 

[EastHillWill]

SQ1 or 2? I had the W11 preview on a Pro X with the SQ1 and it was…not great. (I fully admit I didn’t give it much of a chance, though. Maybe it would have smoothed out.)

 

[soulreaver99]

SQ1 or 2? I had the W11 preview on a Pro X with the SQ1 and it was…not great. (I fully admit I didn’t give it much of a chance, though. Maybe it would have smoothed out.)

SQ1 and working great for me. Also, if you are running MS Office, you need to make sure you are running the ARM64 version. If not, need to uninstall it and reinstall it because it doesn't update that automatically. Difference in performance is night and day.

 

[EastHillWill]

SQ1 and working great for me. Also, if you are running MS Office, you need to make sure you are running the ARM64 version. If not, need to uninstall it and reinstall it because it doesn't update that automatically. Difference in performance is night and day.

No Office for me. I’m glad it’s working well for you! The Pro X is a cool little device, I do hope these ARM machines take off.

 

[thefriendshipmachine]

SQ1 or 2? I had the W11 preview on a Pro X with the SQ1 and it was…not great. (I fully admit I didn’t give it much of a chance, though. Maybe it would have smoothed out.)

I too have an SQ1 SPX and I run W11 on it. Performance is great for me. What were you doing on it?

 

[EastHillWill]

I too have an SQ1 SPX and I run W11 on it. Performance is great for me. What were you doing on it?

Just moving around the interface, browsing the web. Seems like must folks are happy with performance, so it probably was the fact that I just didn’t give it enough time