MARCH 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 5Pull the keyboard out a bit, and the Surface
Pen is exposed in its charging cubby
But in a baffling turn of events, the Surface Pro
X falls short in battery life. Meanwhile, the app
compatibility issues and bugs that are an unfortunate
staple of Snapdragon-powered PCs remain. Maybe it
can be tolerated in a system like the Samsung Galaxy
Book 2, which delivers 18 hours of battery life. But not
the Surface Pro X, with a mere eight- to 10 hours. The
tired chant of ‘this is a new architecture, give it some
time’,doesn’tflyanymore.Whena bugoranother
issuepops up – and it probably will – it’s painful.Design
Little has changed from our first impression of the
Surface Pro X: it’s a Surface Pro tablet, revved up for