14 TECH ADVISOR • MARCH 2020REVIEW
a 5Mp user-facing camera, good enough for 1080p,
aswellasa surprisinglygood10Mprearcamerawith
HDRand autofocus.
The camera app is integrated with the Microsoft
Whiteboard app, which means you can snap a photo
of a whiteboard, even at an angle, and the app will
translate it into an image which you can edit and
markup.It’sa capabilitythat’suniquetothetablet- Microsoft’sSurfaceLaptopslacka rear-facing
camerafor doing this.
Performance: Real-world use
Living with the Qualcomm-based Surface Pro X is
somewhat like living with a Windows 10 S machine:
within the ecosystem of Microsoft apps – Edge, Office,
the basic apps like Mail and Calendar – the Surface Pro
X feels decently quick. It performed the mainstream
tasks that I need to accomplish (web browsing, word...and Whiteboard outputs
what it captures into an
image that you can mark up