The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 has received an upgrade, and as expected, it's still a great option for those looking for a portable laptop with impressive performance.
One of the things that stands out about this device is its pen. The new Surface Pen is welcome improvements over the old one. It boasts 496 points of pressure sensitivity, which is significantly better than the previous model's 1024 points of pressure sensitivity. The actuation force needed to make a line has also decreased from 21 G to just 10 G, making it even more responsive and accurate. Additionally, the pen supports tilt for shading, which is super cool. With only 21 milliseconds of latency, it's apparently the fastest digital pen on the planet. However, users will have to purchase the Surface Pen separately, as it's not included in the box.
The Surface Pro 4 also comes with a rather iconic part of the laptop, the Surface Pen, which is now sold separately. Fortunately, the new pen is forwards compatible with the previous version, and vice versa, so if you already own one of these pens, you can use it without having to buy a whole new laptop. However, this means that users will have to spend extra money on the pen, which might be a significant cost addition.
The I/O ports on the left-hand side of the device are another area where Microsoft could have improved. You've got a headset jack on the bottom, a cover port on the right-hand side, a mini display port, a Surface Connect port, and a full-size USB 3.0 port along with a micro SD card slot on the bottom. The lack of Thunderbolt 3 or USBC feels somewhat dated at this point, and considering Lonus previously criticized the Surface Pro 4 for lacking these features, it's surprising that they didn't make them available in this revision. Additionally, there's no full-size SD slot, which is a major omission.
If you're unsatisfied with the I/O options on the device, don't worry; you can use the dock. However, just like the Surface Pen, the dock is also sold separately. This means that users might need to purchase additional accessories to get the most out of their laptop.
Finally, the battery life on this device is impressive, with up to 13.5 hours of video playback. While this isn't particularly remarkable by today's standards, it's still a significant advantage for those who need a laptop that can last all day without needing to be recharged.
In conclusion, two or so months ago, Lonus looked at the Surface Pro 4 and deemed it at least worthy of consideration depending on your use case. Now, with its upgrade, it's an even better option. The build quality is excellent as long as you never have to take it apart, but I do wish Microsoft had taken another look at their I/O and modernized it a bit more. As it stands, the Surface Pro 4 is a very interesting laptop that feels like a game that really needs its DLC to be fully featured and fully complete. If you're buying this, you probably want it for some type of design work, and it doesn't come with the pen or keyboard out of the box. You might need to plug more than one thing into it at a time, so you might need the dock.
The future of the Surface Pro is uncertain, but Lonus hopes that Microsoft will address these issues in the next version of the device. Perhaps we'll see a new Surface Pro with improved I/O and accessories included in the box. Maybe they'll even skip some numbers and call it the Surface Pro 10. Whatever the case may be, Lonus can't wait to get their hands on it.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enMicrosoft brought us all the way to China to check out their new Surface Pro not the Surface Pro 5 just the Surface Pro which is totally different from the Surface Pro that was released in 2013 and also totally different from the Surface Pro 4 this is the new Surface Pro lonus said after not exactly being too enthusiastic with Surface Pro 1 through three that version 4 was where he thought the concept finally lined up with Microsoft's Vision so now it's time to see how far they take it from there we're hosting LTX 2017 on July 29th 2017 it's a Meetup Tech Carnival thing and uh it's going to be a lot of fun learn more at the link in the video description first let's start with specs under the hood you can pick your processor you can go from an Intel M3 to a core i5 to even a core i7 for Ram you can range yourself from 4 gigs to 16 gigs and for storage you can go with solid state drives from 128 gigs to 1 tab with the 1 tab option being in the nvme ultra fast variety but depending on your flavor of choice you'll be shelling out anywhere from $800 to 2700 you're paying for that performance in nvme drive I would would say that my sweet spot would probably be the core i5 with 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD but if you do want those Iris Pro graphics for doing more graphical stuff or even some minor gaming you might want to upgrade that being said the M3 and I5 models don't have a fan they're all cooled so well that they are fanless operation which is pretty sweet if you want a silent computer they claimed at the event that the performance of the laptop went up by 20% over its previous version that seems a little int considering the processor upgrade that they had so we'll have to investigate this claim more back at the office but one thing that they did state that was super cool is that there's 4.5 hours more battery life over top of the Surface Pro 4 which brings you to 13.5 hours of video playback battery it's also rocking a beautiful 12.3 in pixel sense display with an aspect ratio of 3x2 and a pixel per inch count of 267 it looks awesome and that's pretty much all I have to say there the pen has also received welcome improvements going from 1024 de of pressure sensitivity in the old version way up to 496 on the new one the actuation force needed to make a line has moved down from 21 G to just 10 G it supports tilt for shading which is super cool and it is apparently the fastest digital pen on the planet with only 21 milliseconds of latency but it along with the keyboard are not included in the Box the surface pen a rather icon iconic part of the Surface Pro laptop is now sold separately if you have the previous version of the pen it is forwards compatible and the new pen is also backwards compatible if you don't want to buy a whole new laptop but do want a better pen which is cool but that's going to add a lot of cost if you want a pen and a keyboard with your well laptop and to continue the not so great news we've got the I/O on the left hand side you've got a headset Jack on the bottom you have the cover port on the right hand side you've got a mini display port a surface connect port and a fullsize USB 3 Port along with a micr SD port on the bottom the lack of Thunderbolt 3 or if I dare say USBC feels a little dated at this point and considering lonus already criticized the Surface Pro 4 for lacking these things along with just not having a full-size SD slot it just feels kind of weird that the io was entirely overlooked with this revision if you're unsatisfied with those IO options you can use the dock but as you may have guessed it is sold separately as well and last but possibly not least depending on your use case they have decided to include LTE capability which is pretty damn cool if you really want to embrace the whole portability of your device with those 13.5 hours of video playback battery life in conclusion two or so months ago lonus looked at the Surface Pro 4 and deemed it at the very very least worthy of consideration depending on your use case now it's received an upgrade and its pricing structure seems to have St pretty much the same which makes it an even better option it feels great in your hand the build quality seems rather wonderful as long as you never ever have to take it apart but I do really really wish they took another look at their I/O and modernized it a little bit as it stands the Surface Pro is a very interesting laptop but it kind of feels like a game that really needs its DLC to be fully featured and fully complete you don't have the keyboard with it if you're buying this you probably want it for some type of design work and it doesn't come with the pen if you're buying this you might need to plug more than you know kind of one thing into it at a time so you might need the dock you're going to end up walking out to the store with quite a few things maybe our wishes will come through for the next version of the Surface Pro which I'm going to guess is going to be called the newer Surface Pro or maybe the surface Pro 2019 or well it is Microsoft so maybe they'll just skip a few numbers and it will be the Surface Pro 10 do you like people spying on you while you use the internet if you said yes shut up I'm on to you with tunnel bear nobody can spy on you it keeps your internet activity private from your internet provider advertises and anyone looking to track you or profit from your data tunnel bear has a toprated privacy policy policy and does not log your activities and the best part is it's actually easy to use you download it it's available for PC Mac Android iOS they even have a Chrome extension and you press like one button and you are covered and it's uh really nice for getting around pesky Geo restrictions you know watching videos that are us only yeah it's really great for that so try it out for free with 500 megabytes of data no credit card required and then when you sign up for a year of unlimited data save 10% by going to Tunnel bear.com LTT all right guys thanks for watching if you like the video like it if you disliked it dislike it get subscribed either way so you can see all the rest of our videos forever if you want to hit the Bell you can like definitely always always see all of our videos which is a pretty solid way to go if you want to check out the description there's an Amazon link where you can buy stuff you saw in this video uh there's also a link to where you can buy some shirts and click this video which is pella's favorite video that he's ever seen on our Channel like without a doubt it is the singular favorite video of his he feels pretty passionately about this videoMicrosoft brought us all the way to China to check out their new Surface Pro not the Surface Pro 5 just the Surface Pro which is totally different from the Surface Pro that was released in 2013 and also totally different from the Surface Pro 4 this is the new Surface Pro lonus said after not exactly being too enthusiastic with Surface Pro 1 through three that version 4 was where he thought the concept finally lined up with Microsoft's Vision so now it's time to see how far they take it from there we're hosting LTX 2017 on July 29th 2017 it's a Meetup Tech Carnival thing and uh it's going to be a lot of fun learn more at the link in the video description first let's start with specs under the hood you can pick your processor you can go from an Intel M3 to a core i5 to even a core i7 for Ram you can range yourself from 4 gigs to 16 gigs and for storage you can go with solid state drives from 128 gigs to 1 tab with the 1 tab option being in the nvme ultra fast variety but depending on your flavor of choice you'll be shelling out anywhere from $800 to 2700 you're paying for that performance in nvme drive I would would say that my sweet spot would probably be the core i5 with 8 gigs of RAM and a 256 gig SSD but if you do want those Iris Pro graphics for doing more graphical stuff or even some minor gaming you might want to upgrade that being said the M3 and I5 models don't have a fan they're all cooled so well that they are fanless operation which is pretty sweet if you want a silent computer they claimed at the event that the performance of the laptop went up by 20% over its previous version that seems a little int considering the processor upgrade that they had so we'll have to investigate this claim more back at the office but one thing that they did state that was super cool is that there's 4.5 hours more battery life over top of the Surface Pro 4 which brings you to 13.5 hours of video playback battery it's also rocking a beautiful 12.3 in pixel sense display with an aspect ratio of 3x2 and a pixel per inch count of 267 it looks awesome and that's pretty much all I have to say there the pen has also received welcome improvements going from 1024 de of pressure sensitivity in the old version way up to 496 on the new one the actuation force needed to make a line has moved down from 21 G to just 10 G it supports tilt for shading which is super cool and it is apparently the fastest digital pen on the planet with only 21 milliseconds of latency but it along with the keyboard are not included in the Box the surface pen a rather icon iconic part of the Surface Pro laptop is now sold separately if you have the previous version of the pen it is forwards compatible and the new pen is also backwards compatible if you don't want to buy a whole new laptop but do want a better pen which is cool but that's going to add a lot of cost if you want a pen and a keyboard with your well laptop and to continue the not so great news we've got the I/O on the left hand side you've got a headset Jack on the bottom you have the cover port on the right hand side you've got a mini display port a surface connect port and a fullsize USB 3 Port along with a micr SD port on the bottom the lack of Thunderbolt 3 or if I dare say USBC feels a little dated at this point and considering lonus already criticized the Surface Pro 4 for lacking these things along with just not having a full-size SD slot it just feels kind of weird that the io was entirely overlooked with this revision if you're unsatisfied with those IO options you can use the dock but as you may have guessed it is sold separately as well and last but possibly not least depending on your use case they have decided to include LTE capability which is pretty damn cool if you really want to embrace the whole portability of your device with those 13.5 hours of video playback battery life in conclusion two or so months ago lonus looked at the Surface Pro 4 and deemed it at the very very least worthy of consideration depending on your use case now it's received an upgrade and its pricing structure seems to have St pretty much the same which makes it an even better option it feels great in your hand the build quality seems rather wonderful as long as you never ever have to take it apart but I do really really wish they took another look at their I/O and modernized it a little bit as it stands the Surface Pro is a very interesting laptop but it kind of feels like a game that really needs its DLC to be fully featured and fully complete you don't have the keyboard with it if you're buying this you probably want it for some type of design work and it doesn't come with the pen if you're buying this you might need to plug more than you know kind of one thing into it at a time so you might need the dock you're going to end up walking out to the store with quite a few things maybe our wishes will come through for the next version of the Surface Pro which I'm going to guess is going to be called the newer Surface Pro or maybe the surface Pro 2019 or well it is Microsoft so maybe they'll just skip a few numbers and it will be the Surface Pro 10 do you like people spying on you while you use the internet if you said yes shut up I'm on to you with tunnel bear nobody can spy on you it keeps your internet activity private from your internet provider advertises and anyone looking to track you or profit from your data tunnel bear has a toprated privacy policy policy and does not log your activities and the best part is it's actually easy to use you download it it's available for PC Mac Android iOS they even have a Chrome extension and you press like one button and you are covered and it's uh really nice for getting around pesky Geo restrictions you know watching videos that are us only yeah it's really great for that so try it out for free with 500 megabytes of data no credit card required and then when you sign up for a year of unlimited data save 10% by going to Tunnel bear.com LTT all right guys thanks for watching if you like the video like it if you disliked it dislike it get subscribed either way so you can see all the rest of our videos forever if you want to hit the Bell you can like definitely always always see all of our videos which is a pretty solid way to go if you want to check out the description there's an Amazon link where you can buy stuff you saw in this video uh there's also a link to where you can buy some shirts and click this video which is pella's favorite video that he's ever seen on our Channel like without a doubt it is the singular favorite video of his he feels pretty passionately about this video\n"
