Review of - Kindle Paperwhite. Reviewed on: July 08, Author: BoolPool. Buy Now. Cons Short battery life and battery drains fast. Specifications: Product Dimensions: 6. User Voice. Incredibly fast Expandable storage space Smooth keys for comfortable typing Very good touch screen Smooth writing with stylus Multiple USB ports Magnetic charger for easy hook up Easy to switch between laptop and tablet modes Decent battery life Flexibility to use touch screen, stylus or keyboard Flexibility to connect wired mouse and keyboard or with Bluetooth Touch keyboard is a little awkward.
Review Group : 1 Rating :. Superb build quality Decent battery life Crisp and sharp display Fast productivity Using stylus is fun Battery life can be improved Provides only 4 to 5 hours of battery backup over typical 8 hours Considerably more battery life than a laptop but less than a tablet.
Review Group : 2 Rating :. Powerful and excellent working quality Installs programs, apps and games easily Power saver mode gives a battery life of 5 plus hours Android and apple stores are better than MS app store Really powerful mobile unit. You can connect the Surface to a larger monitor easily; many will.
Working in multimonitor mode operated exactly the same as you'd expect on a Windows PC. It took some fiddling to get window sizing just right, but I found that working on my desk with the innocuous Surface on the side of my monitor as a PC-slash-second-screen was a bit of a treat. Type Cover, Touch Cover: Killer accessories, neither included Nearly this entire review has been written on the Surface Pro, using a combination of Type and Touch covers.
They both weigh about half a pound, and double as screen covers for the Surface. The Type Cover keyboard feels wonderful, easy to bang away on, and largely responsive. The Touch Cover It's usable, however.
The key spacing on the Touch Cover is identical, and as long as you can get used to the lack of actual key motion and give in to tapping away lightly on what amounts to raised polyurethane squares, then it can work -- even with touch typing. The Type Cover has a real but tiny honest-to-goodness multitouch touch pad with lower click zones; the Touch Cover's touch pad has "clickable" areas delineated below the touch-pad space with cut-out grooved lines.
I can't say enough good things about the Type Cover keyboard -- if I were reviewing it separately, it would get an Editors' Choice hands-down.
It attaches magnetically and seamlessly to the Surface Pro's bottom. It forms a pretty attractive cover along the lines of Apple's own keyboardless Smart Cover, but with the addition of that Surface-powered keyboard-touch-pad combo that doesn't noticeably drain battery life at all.
And, yes, it forms a strong enough bond to dangle the Surface Pro upside down, but I wouldn't try this at home over a concrete floor. Working with the included touch pad gets the job done, but you can just as easily use the Surface's touch screen -- or add a Bluetooth or USB mouse or touch pad. It's expensive but small enough, and it pairs nicely with the Surface. Surface Pen The Surface Pro supports pressure-sensitive styli, and the Surface Pro comes with its own Surface Pen that magnetically attaches to the power connector to hold it in place when you're on the go.
Writing and sketching felt natural, and the pen worked far more responsively than a capacitive iPad stylus the technology's different. Using a few basic drawing apps from the Windows Store, it all worked easily enough for my 4-year-old son and myself to enjoy. The "fun factor" is definitely present in the Surface Pro, but there isn't the incredible level of tablet-friendly app support that iOS and Android enjoy.
You can run legacy Windows applications on the Surface to your heart's content, but those won't be nearly as touch-friendly. Speakers, cameras Audio, conveyed through built-in stereo speakers, sounds adequate but not spectacular. It's better than you'd expect out of a machine this small, however. The Surface Pro has two cameras, front- and rear-facing, and they're both p.
No high-megapixel camera is included. That's okay for front-facing Web chat, but for rear camera photos it's a bit of a letdown, even though I can't ever imagine holding a Surface Pro up to take a picture. Software and security Microsoft Office does not come preinstalled on the Surface Pro, though it will run the full version of Office as well as any similarly configured Core i5 laptop. You get a bare-bones set of basic software, and that's it. Microsoft does include BitLocker encryption to more safely protect the data on your solid-state drive SSD , but that's not a feature we tested.
Ports I'm comparing the Surface Pro with an ultraportable PC instead of a tablet, because for its feature set and price, that's what you'll be comparing it with when shopping.
I don't think many people will choose a Surface Pro over an iPad, but some people might indeed consider it over an ultrabook or inch Windows 8 ultraportable. And based on that comparison, one of the big drawbacks of the Surface Pro as your main PC is its limited set of ports. A single USB 3. Granted, having USB 3. There's no Ethernet jack, and not even a packed-in USB dongle, which might be the most bothersome part of all.
The new UI change takes into account multi-touch with gestures and larger icons. The start menu is more like mobile OS because the content is more spaced out, and the navigation is easier to follow.
In the same sense, it has held onto the keyboard and mouse as primary inputs. Microsoft can provide both options, the classic keyboard and mouse and the mobile touch input, without either input affecting the other.
Although it is not as efficient, I find typing on the screen a good experience. Widgets on Windows 11 can be opened either on the taskbar or from a swipe gesture on the left. For the most part, Microsoft has integrated touch input and keyboard and mouse effectively.
I think this is a challenging endeavor that no one has been able to figure out. I say this with the opinion that touch typing is not a practical input for touch devices and, practically speaking, is inefficient.
I had high hopes for the Surface Pro 8 going into its launch. The slimmer and sleeker design brings a lot of new features, including using the new 11 th Gen Intel Core processors, a better Hz display, and is one of the first of Microsoft's devices to launch with Windows The Surface Pro 8 and Window 11 will be an excellent combination for users living in an era of hybrid work.
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