Tech Advisor - UK (2020-07)

94 TECH ADVISOR • JULY 2020

REVIEW

Underneath the Samsung Galaxy

Book S hides the hybrid SIM/microSD

slot, paired together inside a tray that

can be opened with a fingernail

totedalongtheMicrosoft Surface Pro X with an eSIM

insideforcomparison.

UsingInternetspeedtests,theGalaxyProS

averaged about 30- to 40Mb/s downstream across

many locations, while the Surface Pro X ranged from

over 100Mb/sdownstreamtojusta fewhundred

kilobytes.Ineachlocation,IwasabletostreamNetflix

withnoissues,althoughthestreamhiccupeda timeor

twoneartheBay.

Because of the fundamental difference in the ARM

architecture underlying Qualcomm’s Snapdragon

processor,anyPCwithoneinsidealsoshipswitha

numberofcaveats.WhiletheSnapdragon8cxcanrun

native32-bitand64-bitappsencodedspecificallyfor

its ARM64architecture,they’rea rarityin theWindows

world.Instead,SnapdragonPCsliketheSamsung