Microsoft Surface Pro X: new SQ2 processor and platinum color option

Microsoft is updating its $1,499 ARM-based Surface Affirmative X gimmick nowadays. The big new additions are an updated SQ2 processor, and a classical Pt color selection found along Microsoft's other Surface devices. The updated processor should improve performance crosswise a variety of apps, and Microsoft is also promising capable 15 hours of battery lifespan.

The SQ2 C.P.U. is the of import intragroup change, and Microsoft has one time again worked with Qualcomm to customize information technology for the Pro X. It's essentially a variant of Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 5G, without 5G support.

Microsoft is also victimization the same 13-inch PixelSense show (2880 x 1920) from most recently year's model, capable 16GB of RAM, and adequate 512GB of storage. There's also two USB-C ports, the Superficial Connect port, a nano SIM port for gigabit LTE connectivity, and removable SSD storage.

Microsoft's revolutionary Surface Pro X.

Undersize else has changed on this refreshed model, just a platinum color variant also means there are new signature keyboards. Microsoft will ship silver, blue, and red colors with the equal built-in storage for the Surface Slim Pen that appeared on the original black version last year. You'll still be able to pickaxe the contraband color variant, too.

Microsoft isn't fashioning any big promises or so how the new SQ2 processor will improve performance inside the Surface Favoring X, though. We polish off a few app compatibility issues with the original Surface Pro X, only Microsoft disclosed sooner this week that it's working along x64 app emulation support for Windows on ARM.

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This inexperient app support testament allow the Surface Affirmative X to run all Windows apps, regardless of whether they're 32- or 64-bit native ARM, or x86. Microsoft will start testing this emulation support in November, and we buttocks expect to see it arrive in a Windows update next twelvemonth.

This updated Surface Pro X is available for preorder today, start at $1,499, and volition start shipping on October 13th. There are now tetrad In favor of X models forthcoming for consumers:

Surface Pro X - SQ1 processor, 8GB of Ram down, 128GB of SSD repositing: $999
Surface Pro X - SQ1 processor, 8GB of Ram, 256GB of SSD storage: $1,299
Control surface Pro X - SQ2 central processing unit, 16GB of RAM, 256GB of SSD storage: $1,499
Surface In favou X - SQ2 CPU, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of SSD storage: $1,799