- #COLOR FINALE VS. COLOR FINALE PRO FULL#
- #COLOR FINALE VS. COLOR FINALE PRO PORTABLE#
- #COLOR FINALE VS. COLOR FINALE PRO PRO#
The Core i5-8250U in the Surface Pro 6 was able to maintain an average of over 15 Watts of power dissipation indefinitely, although the power would drop periodically to maintain surface temperatures. This was also our first chance to test out the passively cooled Surface Pro, since we were only able to test the Core i7 model last year, which did feature a fan.
#COLOR FINALE VS. COLOR FINALE PRO PORTABLE#
Likely it will be though, unless you are someone who never scratches a portable device. The other nice benefit of the platinum color is that any scratches to the finish should be mostly masked by the color of the underlying metal, but it’s too early to tell how durable the new black finish will be, so this may or may not be an issue. It looks good, but it does get dirty much quicker than the platinum that they used before, with fingerprints and hand oils showing up very quickly. The Surface team achieved that without increasing the rated battery capacity, which if a guess had to be made, would come down to an improved display TFT since the display is still the biggest power draw by a wide margin.įinally, there’s the new old black color, which we hadn’t seen on Surface since the Surface Pro 2. The other nice addition this year is even better battery life, with a significant jump across all of our tests. The 3:2 aspect ratio is still the right choice for a device like this, and that’s apparent when you see the competition all adopting the same aspect ratio on their lineups. It would be nice to see Microsoft use Surface as a line to drive HDR adoption, but apparently, we’re not quite there yet.
#COLOR FINALE VS. COLOR FINALE PRO FULL#
If you want an accurate display in the PC space, only Microsoft calibrates every device they sell, and the 12.3-inch display on the Pro lineup offers everything you’d expect in a premium PC, with high resolution, accurate colors, and full sRGB coverage. It’s just as accurate as ever, but now offers a noticeable bump in contrast ratio. Microsoft has also taken the opportunity to improve the already class-leading display in the Surface Pro 6. The lack of an Intel Iris GPU option was unavoidable, since it no longer exists in the 15-Watt range, but even so, the Iris in last year’s Surface Pro was restricted by the low TDP anyway, and as such didn’t always offer the expected performance boost. The big change with Surface Pro 6 is the move to Kaby Lake Refresh, and the doubling of the CPU cores that entails, and unsurprisingly the performance of this model is much better than all previous versions.
Surface Pro 2017 (left) in Platinum vs Surface Pro 6 (right) in Blackīut after using the device for the last couple of days, there’s more than meets the eye. There’s still not a USB-C port on Surface Pro, and for no really good reason. The alcantara type covers were introduced last year, and once again carry over to this model. The pen was immensely improved just last year, and carries over. The exterior is more or less identical to the outgoing 2017 model, albeit with a new color option to sit beside the platinum that we’ve seen on all Surface devices for the last couple of years. At the launch event in NYC on October 2nd, the Surface Pro 6 seemed like a mild refresh of an already established line, and that’s not even necessarily a bad thing.
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