Microsoft Surface Pro OLED Copilot+ review - A high-end 2-in-1 now with the Snapdragon X Elite

[Redaktion]

The 11th generation Surface Pro 2-in-1 has placed its bets on Qualcomm's new Snapdragon ARM processors. A 120 Hz, high-resolution, OLED touchscreen is also optionally available which can hit 900 nits of brightness in HDR mode.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-OLED-Copilot-review-A-high-end-2-in-1-now-with-the-Snapdragon-X-Elite.853756.0.html

[paviko]

"Loud and hot" - nothing changed compared to  Amd/Intel. Now even Core Ultra is as fast unplugged (on battery) as plugged to wall. Looks like to much was put on speed than efficency. Surface Pro, fanless at 15W (like Macbook Air) would be perfect - probably same single threaded performance, worse multithreaded or gaming, but gaming is not possible even now at 60W.

[basri]

"we recorded DC dimming at a frequency of 120 Hz which is potentially more damaging than traditional PWM" what does that mean, how dc dimming has a frequency?

[indy]

Boggles my mind that reviewers are just casually ignoring the vast swaths of incompatibility these Windows on ARM chips people will encounter.  At this point you might as well go with a Mac or a Linux box,because you *will* eventually run into some serious lack of ability to run something that Windows has provided for 3+ decades now: near perfect backwards compatibility.

That doesn't even include the possibility that the data you see on these devices might not be accurate?  How do I trust a program on an OS that doesn't run code natively?

Personally will avoid these until there are years of other people testing them.  I'm OK with plugging in my 10+ year old laptop every once in a while.

[Arm]

I haven't encountered any compatibility issues. Even autohotkey works. I heard some Adobe software is not yet compatible but I don't use it, Sumatra is a much better reader and has a native arm client. Anyway Adobe promises a fix by end of July.

[vladteapa]

How something that throttles this badly, after one short cinebench run, can be recommended?

If there's a special sauce I'm not sure this is it...