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That’s fine for this moment, and maybe the next one.
USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR WITH SURFACE PRO 4 UPGRADE
As it stands, the Surface Pro 7 is merely an annual upgrade - a rote refresh that serves mostly as a Black Friday talking point. Maybe such a Surface Pro wouldn’t be as thin as the Surface Pro X, but at least it would have finally refreshed a nearly 5-year-old design. I don’t think I’m alone in wishing Microsoft had the engineering chops to go all in with the Surface Pro X hardware, while still sticking with the x86 architecture that makes all Windows 10 apps work properly. But unless you really need the USB-C port you could get a Surface Pro 6 and it’d still crush. While using Illustrator, long press Surface Dial to access the. You can use Surface Dial to adjust settings and parameters for your Illustrator documents. Illustrator now supports Microsoft Surface Dial on Windows 10 Anniversary edition and later or directly on Surface Studio.
USING ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR WITH SURFACE PRO 4 HOW TO
The Surface Pro 7 is a mixture of the past and future - USB-C is there to fend off dongles and the USB-A port exists as a legacy link - and that makes it a very practical 2-in-1. Learn how to work with the Microsoft Surface Dial in Illustrator. It’s nice the Surface Pro 7 finally has a USB-C port, but it isn’t even top of the line since it doesn’t support Thunderbolt 3 speeds. It’s never been the cool kid - that’s Apple and Google - but always the most practical. Everything about the 2-in-1 is just fine to the point of boring which, to be fair, is kind of Microsoft’s DNA. Not with a bang but a whimper - Microsoft played it super safe with the Surface Pro 7. Luckily, there are some that are really tiny now. The Surface Pro 8 charges from 0 to 80% in an hour via the Surface Connect or USB-C port (it requires a power adapter with at least 60W output). It’s okay, but the Surface Pro 6 easily lasted 8 hours, and it’s hard not to compare it to the 10-12 hours of battery life I saw on Google’s Pixelbook Go.īut while battery life is slightly worse this year, there’s one saving grace: fast charging. The Hunt also helps you keep on top of current trends, with news and interviews. Even with the display brightness set to about 75%, the most I ever got was between 6-7.5 hours.
Out in the real world, I never got close to the mythical (and again, reduced) 10.5 hours Microsoft promises on a single charge.
It’s nice that Microsoft’s moved away from using looping local video playback as a metric for battery life since that’s not a real-world test by any modern standard. Microsoft says the Surface Pro 7 gets “up to 10.5 hours of typical device usage,” which is a drop from “up to 13.5 hours of local video playback” on the Surface Pro 6. Worse battery life, but there’s fast charging - Battery life is one of those features that’s supposed to get better with every new version of a device. Unlike the Surface Pro X, the Surface Pro 7 runs all x86 apps like Photoshop.