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Surface Pro 2 (left), Surface Pro (right) It's as solid as ever, in fact, but something to be aware of since the second position gives the open kickstand a bit more give. The only weird thing about the new kickstand is that I often hold the device with the kickstand open while walking around-it's just easy to secure your hand under the open kickstand-and it feels a bit more wobbly, like it's broken. This is a surprisingly useful change, and I've found that I use the new position (which tilts the screen to 40 degrees) more than the original (24 degrees). Surface Pro 2 now features a two-position kickstand, compared to the single position provided by the original unit. But it's still a big improvement over the first Surface Pro.ĭual-position kickstand. This is a bit less than expected-using Microsoft's numbers, I was expecting just under 8 hours. And I've got mostly good news, though I need to measure this further going forward: In various situations, Surface Pro 2 delivered anywhere from 5 hours to 7.5 hours of real world battery life. I don't run formal battery life tests, but I was of course interested to see how well Surface Pro 2 surpassed the miserable 4.5 to 5.5 hour real world battery life of its predecessor. The 512 GB version is apparently very limited from an availability perspective.īattery life. As noted previously, the different Surface Pro 2 models offer 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB of storage, respectively. As you'll see below, however, those two high-end Surface Pro 2 models are considerably more expensive. But the two higher-end versions, with 256 GB and 512 GB of storage, come with 8 GB of RAM, a big improvement. As with the original Surface Pro, the 64 GB and 128 GB versions of Surface Pro 2 ship with 4 GB of RAM. Every version of Surface Pro 2 comes with the same processor. With Surface Pro 2, Microsoft is offering upper-level versions of the product with more RAM and storage capacity-this is noted below as well-but it is not, curiously, offering a faster Core i7-4500U chipset in those products, which I find a bit disappointing. (The big deal here is battery life, as noted below.) This new chipset is considerably more efficient and provides better performance, though most users won't notice a big difference in day to day use. Where the original Surface Pro sported a run-of-the-mill 3rd generation Intel Core i5 ("Ivy Bridge") processor running at 1.7 GHz with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 4000 chipset, Surface Pro 2 offers a significant improvement: This bad boy comes with a 4th generation Intel Core i5-4200U processor running at 1.6 GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 2.6 GHz), with Intel HD Graphics 4400. Surface Pro 2 (top), Surface Pro (bottom)īetter processor.
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It does, however, feature a Surface logo on the back instead of the Windows logo. It also features the same VaporMg casing, in the same dark gray (almost black) color. No changes here, which means that Surface Pro 2 is a productivity laptop first and a tablet second. Disappointingly, Surface Pro 2 comes in an identical form factor as the original, and it's as thick (.53 inches) and heavy (2 pounds) as before.
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And those two upper-level versions come with more RAM. So in addition to the versions with 64 GB and 128 GB of solid state storage, as with the Surface Pro, Microsoft now offers versions with 256 GB and 512 GB of storage too. For Surface Pro 2, Microsoft has upped the number of product models up from 2 to 4. Here's what's happening with Surface Pro 2.įour models. But with several months of Surface Pro experience under my belt, I feel comfortable in stating that Surface Pro 2 isn't a huge leap over its predecessor, though it does improve some of the issues I had with that initial device. I've only been using the Surface Pro 2 for a bit more than a week, and I'll be using and evaluating this device further in the coming days, weeks, and months.
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And thanks to some software improvements in Windows 8.1 Pro, it also fixes a few usability problems as well. It looks identical to, and weighs the same as, its Surface Pro predecessor, but comes with an updated Intel "Haswell" processor and the expected improved battery life.
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As promised, Surface Pro 2 is an evolutionary update to Microsoft's excellent first-generation hybrid PC.