Aside from all that pictorial finesse, the other important facet of the Pro 4’s display is of course its touchscreen ability. And this is where old habits die hard for Microsoft’s latest Surface.

Windows 10’s Continuum feature claims to offer a seamless transition between the Pro 4’s tablet and desktop modes - especially when you enable its tablet mode to work automatically. Detach the Pro 4 from its Type Cover and Windows 10 should click into a more app-friendly form. The same goes for desktop mode when you do the reverse. At least, it’s meant to.

In practice, Continuum has caused me many a headbanging moment. The Pro 4 especially doesn’t take kindly to being shut down in one mode and then booted up in another. Even when faced with a more kindly Type Cover detach, the Pro 4 will often freeze up in response. The last time this happened to me was when I attempted to open up the OneNote app in tablet mode with the Surface Pen. Hardly the most taxing of asks.

When you can get the Pro 4 to work properly, it proves itself to be well-equipped as a slate. The transition out of desktop mode takes a couple of seconds to kick in but, once that’s done, those Live Tiles are as intuitive as ever to tap on and the Windows Store isn’t as threadbare for apps as it once was.

You’ll find Crossy Road and PhotoShop Express in there at least, although there are still a lot of popular downloads missing. Slack, Spotify, Amazon Prime Instant Video and even the Microsoft-owned calendar app Sunrise are all absent. That said, you can download a lot of these as programs in desktop mode and open them in tablet mode. As compromises go, this one ranks well above the Munich Agreement, or Wayne Rooney playing as a Number 10 for Manchester United.