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1. #MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 SOFTWARE#
2. #MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 PC#
3. #MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 WINDOWS#

For most people, that’s probably still the way to go.Īt home with the Surface Pro and iPad Pro, I ultimately found myself wanting to reach for the iPad Pro more often to check email, browse the web and watch videos. For that much money, you could get a great laptop and a separate tablet.

The keyboard and stylus, which are must-buys to get the most out of this tablet, drive the price up to $1,270. It will also be a safer purchase after more staple apps are guaranteed to work with the device.Īt $1,000, the Surface Pro X is expensive.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 WINDOWS#

The device will be more mature once Microsoft improves Windows to be better suited for tablet use. But for everyone else, there’s no rush to buy. The Surface Pro will appeal mostly to those who want to live on the bleeding edge of tech. In the coming years, we can expect more PCs to adopt mobile computing processors and the strengths of our smartphones and tablets. Over all, the Surface Pro X is a neat product. I just can’t get the hang of juggling several apps on an iPad when doing work I’d rather toggle between multiple windows on a computer using a mouse and keyboard. Other than my neuroses about keyboards, the deal-breaker was the multitasking interface. One other note: I have owned an older iPad Pro for several years, but it has never come close to replacing my laptop. Fortunately, there were plenty of third-party iPad Pro keyboards that were bulkier but felt more like normal keyboards. It was light and thin, which made typing on the keys feel flimsy. To make comparisons, I tested an iPad Pro with Apple’s Smart Keyboard and the Apple Pencil.īut Apple’s Smart Keyboard, which attached to the tablet with magnets, felt inferior to the Surface Pro X’s keyboard. The closest competitor to the Surface Pro X is the 12.9-inch iPad Pro, the premium version of Apple’s tablet that works with optional styluses and keyboards.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 PC#

For example, the tool steers creative users who rely on Adobe apps toward the Surface Book 2 and the Surface Pro 7, which can run a broader set of apps because of their PC chip architecture. Microsoft said it offered a tool to help people choose a Surface device based on their lifestyle and the type of work they do. How will you know which of your apps will work with the Surface Pro X? There’s no simple method short of doing a web search on app compatibility with this product. The device does work well, however, with Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-based versions of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Adobe was still working to make some of its creativity apps, like Photoshop, work with this special version of Windows. Dropbox, the online storage service that I rely on every day for work, doesn’t fully function on the Surface Pro X.

#MICROSOFT OFFICE ON IPAD PRO REVIEW 2017 SOFTWARE#

Microsoft said that it had heard feedback from people on the Windows interface and that it was continuing to improve its software for tablet use.Īnother downside is that some important apps were not compatible with this ARM-based computer. At heart, while Windows was designed to be a two-in-one experience, it is still a PC operating system with some flawed tablet features.