Tech Advisor - UK (2020-05)

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 21 Some rivals go beyond this to offer a Thunderbolt- enabled USB-C port, which allows more bandwidth fo ...

22 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW We’ve beat this drum before, but we’ll sound it again: If the Surface Pro series had Thunderbo ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 23 headphones. Its positional audio was, however, the best I can recall since Aureal Semiconductor’s HRT ...

24 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW We also can’t directly compare the Surface Pro 7 to Microsoft’s recent Surface Pro X in all bu ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 25 Especially when you dial up the performance, Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7 is the fastest tablet around f ...

26 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW The Surface Pro 7 delivers decent performance here, but we suspect some slight throttling may ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 27 periods at 267MHz. The Surface Laptop 3’s typical speed is 283MHz, and with much longer prolonged ‘sp ...

28 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW sharp difference between the Surface Laptop 3 and the Surface Pro 7. Stay focused on the real ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 29 The Surface Pro 7 delivers about we’d expect of a prosumer- level tablet’s battery: about 9 hours fro ...

30 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW from room to room while playing Spotify or Netflix. Surface pioneered the Windows tablet marke ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 31 HP Elite Dragonfly T he HP Elite Dragonfly is a corporate laptop made to please your manager – and is ...

32 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW expectblazingspeed.Whatyouwillgetis a solid configurationwith some premium options; good perfo ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 33 floor – and maybe surviving – as HP said it passes nine MIL-STD drop tests in drop, shock, and vibrat ...

34 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW Features The Elite Dragonfly embraces its executive-laptop status,deliveringa featurelistthat’ ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 35 Our review unit featured an Intel 4G XMM7360 modem CAT 9 modem. That’s Intel’s older and slower 4G ch ...

36 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW Keyboard and Trackpad The input devices are top-notch, starting with a full-travel dome keyboa ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 37 active. Luckily there’s a fingerprint reader as an alternate authentication method. The Synaptics tra ...

38 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW prudent to Draconian. As with all security procedures, the levels of pain are up to the admini ...

MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 39 When we task Cinebench with using a single CPU core, the situation doesn’t change much: the Dragonfly ...

40 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020 REVIEW That’s not to say the Core i7-8665U is actually slower than a consumer Core i7-8565U – it’s ju ...