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Surface Pro 11 Black 13" + Keyboard Bundle - Snapdragon X 10-core / 16GB RAM / 512GB SSD / LCD $899.99
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Brand new, best bang for buck configuration for the Surface Pro. Was 949 last week, now 899.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/m...ku/6598717
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Brand new, best bang for buck configuration for the Surface Pro. Was 949 last week, now 899.
https://www.bestbuy.com/product/m...ku/6598717
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The Surface Pro 11 bundle stands out as a thin 2 in 1 for portable productivity, with the 13 inch LCD panel, 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and keyboard making it a strong travel and desk companion. The LCD screen gets praise for accurate color and solid black levels, and the Snapdragon X chip is described as plenty fast for office work, web use, and general apps. Battery life is repeatedly described as excellent, with quick wake and strong standby behavior. The main cautions are that the keyboard lacks a pen charging slot, the Pro form factor is less comfortable on a lap than a laptop, and 16GB may feel tight for heavier future use.
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This is even more pronounced on the surface laptop 7 than surface pro because the laptop 7 LCD elite version has the same size 54wh battery as the laptop 7 LCD plus, and in light tasks like watching videos or web surfing the elite version gets 15-20% less battery life
The elite on both of these just doesn't seem worth it to me. In addition to the battery life, Pro 11 benchmarks also show in some games the elite processor actually makes the performance worse, because the added heat of the extra 2 CPU cores results in the GPU being downclocked. The only chassis that can truly handle the heat and power of the X Elite is the Surface Laptop 7 15". The rest of these surface devices are better fit thermally for the X plus, and thus its likely not a coincidence that Microsoft doesn't bother offering the X plus on the 15" laptop 7.
The Qualcomm specs on these two CPUs demonstrates the power (and resulting heat) differences between the two chips X1P-64-100 and X1E-80-100 - while both have a 35w overall TDP, PL2 on the elite is 35w higher than the plus (35w/45w vs 35w/80w). Considering you can't even use remotely close to the full potential of the elite's performance gained from the extra power because of thermal limitations on the pro 11/laptop 7, it just dont seem worth it for the heat/battery side effects of the extra power draw.
Yes this is an AMAZING product but I will NOT buy any computer that does not have either 32GB of RAM or the possibility of upgrading t 32GB of RAM.
I also would want a larger hard drive but I can deal. Obviously, you are not buying this to game for you can only fit a few of them. I recently installed Baldur's Gate 3 and the install file was 130GB. So you download it, you unzip it... another 130GB and you install it... another 130GB... once installed you can delete the downloaded files but as you can see that one game requires more then half your hard drive space to install.
The last thing I will say is I upgraded my memory with my old laptops and they both have 16GB of RAM and I also installed a 1TB SSD... my old laptops are THIRTEEN YEARS OLD (3rd gen i7 and i5). And they have served me incredibly well. I am sure if I never upgraded the RAM and harddrive I would have purchased new over six years ago. I say this story because I am thinking of the future and 16GB of RAM is not enough IMHO.
The Surface Laptop 7 I recently bought had only 16gb of RAM, but I use it tons more because its super light and the battery lasts forever. I actually feel its faster for general use than the 17X was because its instant on/off with no battery drain in standby and typical light apps open instantly - the performance of the 17X when it wasn't plugged into the wall actually seemed worse to me despite the impressive spec sheet. The surface laptop 7 came with 512GB SSD but I opened it up and installed a 2TB $149 Crucial M.2 2230 SSD, which is cheaper than what it would have cost to pay for a 1TB model from Microsoft and is also a faster drive! The Surface Pro 11 its even easier to upgrade the SSD, there is a door on the back that slides open with your finger - dont even need to unscrew anything other than the one T3 screw holding the old SSD in place, you can upgrade the SSD in like 5 minutes. Crucial P310 2TB is $148 on Amazon right now: https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-20...0D61SDZD2/
So really the only issue here for you is 16GB vs 32GB... and I guarantee the processor on these Surface laptops will become the bottleneck LONG before 32GB of ram is a bottleneck. But that's okay, because these laptops are more like a sleek stiletto rather than the massive club my Aorus 17X was.
Based on the research I've done, some common sense inferences can be made:
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The Surface offers some things that the air does not, like a 120hz screen for example. And of course the fact it can transform into a tablet.
However, I'd 100% base your decision on whether you want to be in the more closed Apple ecosystem or the more open Windows ecosystem. You couldn't pay me to be in the Apple ecosystem but I know a lot of people like it. This Surface is the new ARM64 version of windows, which was a little bumpy when it first came out but has now matured to support all of the most used x86-64 extensions, and is a fantastic Windows laptop for general use. Note the Surface will still work in tandem with an iPhone for messages, calls, and notifications if you have one via Phone Link, but the integration won't be as tight as Apple's own since Apple's is a closed ecosystem. You might also want to look at the Surface Laptop 7 13.8" which offers similar premium hardware and light/mobile experience as this surface pro, except in the traditional laptop form factor instead of 2-in-1.
The Surface offers some things that the air does not, like a 120hz screen for example. And of course the fact it can transform into a tablet.
However, I'd 100% base your decision on whether you want to be in the more closed Apple ecosystem or the more open Windows ecosystem. You couldn't pay me to be in the Apple ecosystem but I know a lot of people like it. This Surface is the new ARM64 version of windows, which was a little bumpy when it first came out but has now matured to support all of the most used x86-64 extensions, and is a fantastic Windows laptop for general use. Note the Surface will still work in tandem with an iPhone for messages, calls, and notifications if you have one via Phone Link, but the integration won't be as tight as Apple's own since Apple's is a closed ecosystem. You might also want to look at the Surface Laptop 7 13.8" which offers similar premium hardware and light/mobile experience as this surface pro, except in the traditional laptop form factor instead of 2-in-1.
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