Fanless and portable

Great product if you need extra portability and/or you're an artist. The selling point for me was that it's fanless, so, no noise and no overheat issues caused by dust. Note that passive cooling presents only at i5 versions of Surface Pro 6. Also there are no monitor-to-base bending cables, that are common failure cause on regular laptops. It's deffinately not for intense gaming. but it will run graphically undemanding games. There are few downsides in software: 1) For some reason Microsoft didn't create a customizable touch keyboard with floating and transparent keys - for games and other apps requiring keyboard usage, that don't support touch input (99,99% of them). And there is no reliable 3-rd party software for that purpose by now. 2) Initial updates are crazy: it took few hours to fully update the device. And there were 30 Gb debris (restore points, old updates backups, etc.) after it's done. I had to use Disk Cleanup to get rid of it. Not sure what inexperienced users should do in this scenario. And would it be safe for them to use the device when it's not even telling that it's updating and extensively using hard drive and processor to install/backup/check consistensy during the update. Overall the device is good, and if you know what you're buying when you choose Windows OS - you'll be happy with it.Read full review

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