MARCH 2020 PCWorld 45Reviews & Ratings
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THROUGH RIGOROUS TESTINGIMAGE: MICROSOFTMicrosoft Surface
Pro 7: Still the best
Windows tablet
you can buy
For now, Microsoft owns the Windows
tablet category. BY MARK HACHMANMicrosoft’s Surface Pro 7, the
latest in the company’s
excellent Surface Pro series,
continues the tradition of
being a durable, dependable tablet for the
ages. It’s measurably better this time around,
too, with an internal upgrade to Intel’s
10th-gen, 10nm Ice Lake chip and a nod to
the future, a USB-C port. There are many
good reasons why the Surface Pro 7 won
our Editor’s Choice award, as you’ll see in
our review.
Granted, it’s a lot easier to be the best
game in town when rival Windows tablets arefew and far between. At this point, the field
consists largely of Microsoft’s Surface Pro
models, the Surface Pro X (go.pcworld.com/
msfx), Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 Tablet (go.
pcworld.com/x1ta), monstrous tablet
workstations like the HP Zbook X2 (go.
pcworld.com/zbx2), and our longstanding
favorite, the Lenovo IdeaPad Miix 520 (go.
pcworld.com/miix). There’s a definite gap
between these and $300-ish Atom-powered
tablets from names like RCA and iView, which
we wouldn’t necessarily recommend. If you’re
looking for a full-fledged computer that’s
extremely portable and can even work as a