It tucks an LTE SIM card into a hidden slot under a magnetic panel.

It fits most of the Surface Pro 7's features into a slimmer, lighter body. This is a real X-Files, X-Men, XCOM-type X: the universal shorthand for the mysterious unknown. You can tell the Pro X is supposed to feel futuristic because it's named X. And one piece of future tech that's here already is the Surface Pro X, a new take on the tablet-plus-keyboard concept that combines the feel of a PC with the DNA of a smartphone. The dual-screen Surface Neo and Duo prototypes are already among 2020's most anticipated products, even if that's based on a just a few cursory sneak peeks.

There have been some minor design, component and feature tweaks, but the last few versions have been almost painfully unadventurous, which is really saying something for a category that would have seemed sci-fi-like just a decade ago.īut Microsoft hasn't let its PC hardware group hit cruise control. The standard Surface Pro 7 is the dictionary definition of a Windows tablet-laptop hybrid, and has been that way for the past several generations, falling into a somewhat too-comfortable middle age. It's easy to see why it's got some serious buzz. It's one of only a handful of new releases every year that prompt colleagues to proactively email me, asking where, when and how to get one. The Surface Pro X falls into a very small, very exclusive category of PC products.

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