This year, the Surface Pro 7 has moved up to Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake processors, which have better integrated graphics than the Comet Lake processors common on most enterprise laptops. The Surface Pro is still extremely light and easy to carry. A typical enterprise laptop with a 14-inch displays weighs around 3 pounds. The lightest other enterprise laptop I’ve tested this year is the HP Elite Dragonfly, which has a 13.3-inch display and weighs 2.5 pounds, but is more expensive. The base unit weighs just 1.7 pounds, while the Surface Pro Type Keyboard (which you’ll almost certainly want) adds 0.68 pounds, so the combined weigh is 2.4 pounds.
But the bezels around the screen are much larger than you see on current small laptops, and as a result, the screen design now looks a bit outdated. The resolution is best appreciated when using the optional Surface Pen. This is a great-looking small display, and the 3:2 ratio gives you more vertical space than the now-typical 16:9 ratio. It looks almost identical to the Surface Pro 3 from six years ago, but upgraded components make it work just a bit better. With the Surface Pro 7, Microsoft hasn’t really changed the basic concept. Instead the big attraction has been the extremely lightweight devices. Along the way, the Surface Pro 3 moved up to a 12.3-inch display, which is smaller but higher-resolution than even smallest enterprise laptops. The Surface Pro pioneered the idea of the detachable 2-in-1, in which the base unit is a tablet you can use with an optional pen, but a TypePad cover turns the unit into a laptop.Ī few years back, I thought such machines might gain a corporate niche with vertical tablet applications, but mostly those applications are now run on larger-than-ever smartphones.
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