Is this an iPad Pro competitor, the ultimate Surface Pro, or something else? For this review and for my personal use of the device, the perspective is if this machine is good for the field worker. There are going to be a lot of comparisons made about the ideal end-user. With previous Surface hardware, we had to wait up to six months to get an LTE version but the Pro X has the functionality built-in with each device.

If the actual PC wasn’t new enough, the Type cover has a new design, there is a new pen, and this is a mobile PC at heart with LTE from day one. The Pro x is a new device with a new CPU (an ARM chip made by Qualcomm known as the SQ1) and it is packaged inside a refreshed Surface Pro form-factor that may look like a Surface Pro 6 in spirit, but it is all new hardware from the internals out.

But launching this week is the brand-new Surface Pro X and for the mobile workforce, the future may finally be ARM. If you take a look back, we had the Surface RT that ran on an ARM processor and we also had Windows 10 S mode that tried to push a locked-down version of Windows that was safer and faster, but neither of this versions of Windows caught on in any meaningful way. With the evolution of Windows, the third attempt at creating a new experience that looks like classic Windows but is fundamentally different behind the scenes may be the iteration that finally sticks. With the Surface brand, the Pro 3 is what established the product-line and opened the door to the hardware that we see and use today. In the world of Microsoft, the third time is usually the charm.

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