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The original was posted on /r/surface by /u/jasonrmns on 2025-11-12 01:51:35+00:00.

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I've had the 12 inch Surface Pro for a week and as someone who has had a Surface Pro 4 and also Surface Pro 9, and has used the Surface Go 1 a lot because my brother had one, I feel like I can give a useful review here. As nice and cool as the Pro 4 and especially the Pro 9 are, they're just too big and heavy for tablet use, so what's really the point of making a device like that? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. You can use them as a tablet for a little bit but they're just too heavy and big, they're not "tablet first" tablets. The Surface Go though was light and small enough that you can use it as a tablet but it was so slow and weak that you'll want to throw it at the wall, and it had horrible battery life. And apparently the later versions of the Surface Go weren't much better. Also, a 10.5 inch display is just too small for Windows, it just doesn't work. This 12 inch Surface Pro though? It's nearly perfect. It's not heavy, the screen is big enough that you can actually do things on it, it's so fast and smooth and I'm getting great battery life with it. Microsoft makes a lot of crappy products and I don't like a lot of the stuff they do as a company but this 12 inch Surface Pro is amazing. I wonder why they didn't make it sooner? Why did it take them so long to realize this is the sweet spot? I suppose they had to wait until that Nuvia chip was ready. Whatever, it's here now and they've finally figured out how to make the ideal tablet. If you're looking for a Windows tablet, this is the only option, don't get the 13 inch one because it's too heavy and big to be holding (unless you are very big and strong?). Kudos to the Surface team for making something so good, I'm a bitter jaded old nerd now but I'm actually excited about a piece of hardware for the first time in a long time, it feels like I got a new toy

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Can anyone test how much fps you get in x elite chip?

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Hi everyone,

I’m considering getting the new Surface Laptop (Snapdragon X Elite version), but I’d like to hear some real user experiences before making a decision.

I’m a software developer who often runs Linux (usually Arch) and does backend programming, but I can adapt to any OS or language if needed.

I’m mainly interested in: – Performance compared to x86 models (especially Intel and AMD). – App compatibility on Windows ARM. – Battery life and thermals in real use. – Any issues with virtualization, WSL, or development tools.

Do you think it’s worth buying a Surface with an ARM processor right now, or should I wait for better compatibility and optimization?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

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The original was posted on /r/surface by /u/Thwin-1992 on 2025-11-08 06:50:16+00:00.

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I have been using SP11 Business model for a week.

Model - Intel Ultra 7 266V, 16GB, 512GB (upgraded to 2TB)

Here are my opinions (based on my usage)

Built quality

Excellent but body material (aluminum alloy) is very slippery. Nothing wrong with the built quality. I honestly think all surface pro devices would be slippery without case/cover or skin.

Side bezels are very thin, so when i used it on handheld (landscape), always accidentally touching.

Some claims Surface Pros are not lappy thing. I have no Problem using it on my laps.

Display

OLED itself is stunning. Very bright at Max 100%.

The only thing I want to complain is some kind of grainy effect on bright colors.

(After a week of using, you just for get it). You will only see if you are looking for it.

I was looking for it as soon as I setup my SP11 LOL. (my wife doesn't even notice at all).

Anti glare coating really works UNTIL I put tampered glass protector. The reflection came back because of it.

But compared to the damage might caused to the original OLED, I just decided to bare with it for a while.

Flex Keyboard

I couldn't say the exact difference between normal surface keyboard and the FLEX.

But this keyboard definitely feels good. Backlight on keys have 3 steps brightness setting.

Touch Pad haptic feedback is really good.

Using keyboard while detached from SP11 is one of advantages.

Imagine you are on Flight with limited space desk, that's where FLEX shines.

So far I do not find any disconnection between keyboard and SP11 while using separately (or I rarely used like that).

Video

I played 8K 120FPS video looped. (brightness 50-80%, Sound 25%)

I started 14:50 (100%). At 22:50 (20%). Total 8hrs, 10% per hour.

You can easily watch around 9 hours and still left 10%.

Back side only get warm, no sound of fan running.

Slim Pen 2

I have only tested on Paint. Pen pointer can be seen when close enough to 1cm.

One thing to be noted, after I put screen protector, Pen sensitivity reduced. Not as smooth as original screen.

I don't have anything to write down at the moment, so I just leave it like that.

Battery

Video playback 9.5~10 hrs, dropped 10% per hour (downloaded video using VLC player)

If you are connected to WIFI and stream directly from Youtube, you may get less hours.

Sleep mode (connected to WIFI & flex keyboard) 10.5 hrs, dropped 4%.

Day to day usage, web browsing (can easily last a day, but i haven't been using like that).

Sound Quality

Gives you surround sound effect and decent bass sound, very loud even at 25%.

Its output and the device size is just good enough. You won't be using it in public loudly, so its OK.

Gaming

I did install Asphalt 8: Airborne from Microsoft Store and give it a try, not bad. Back side did get warm. No fan noise kicking in. But as you all know, this is not meant for gaming.

If you are looking for gaming with SP11 intel, i recommend Josher14 channel on Youtube.

Final thoughts & my opinions

SP11 is more than enough for my needs which are pretty basic things (MS office, Video, Web Browsing, Downloading videos)

Based on reviews, Snapdragon Xplus, Xelite versions can be more power efficient and get longer battery life but this Intel model also last a day (or I think so)

My needs are more than enough with Snapdragon but I went all in because of anti glare screen and don't want to face any compatibility issues, although all the software i am using have native ARM.

Overall this SP11 intel is a great device and I am happy with it. :)

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Would love your use case and opinions on the device so far.

I've spent the last week or so reading all reddit surface pro 12" opinions and compared to other products there aren't many reviews.

Im a basic user and don't do anything crazy. Email, multimedia, surf the web and annotate books for work. I have an A16 iPad that does all this fine but I have never owned an apple product and don't love the OS and on occasion have to hop on my windows laptop to do a few things. The reasons I want the surface is the full OS, external display connection and familiarity. The reason I haven't purchased the surface is, It isn't as simple to read and annotate PDFs which I do everyday. I know these devices are not used for the same things but for my use case they can be, with each one being a little annoying because of the things they are weak at.

I know it's fine for my use case, I just want opinions of current Surface Pro 12" owners so I can get a more informed opinion since a 512gb is on sale for $599 currently and is only a few hundred books more than my A16.

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It finally works!

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The original was posted on /r/surface by /u/No_Kaleidoscope_9419 on 2025-11-04 16:21:59+00:00.

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Latest version should run without the Easy Anti Cheat "ARM64 not supported" error.

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Surface X Elite users — your NPU can now run real local AI models with NexaSDK

Surface users with the new Snapdragon X Elite chip — you’ve actually got a full AI engine sitting idle in there.

NexaSDK just made it usable. It’s a local inference SDK that runs models like:

• Qwen3 (LLM)
• Qwen3-VL (vision-language)
• Parakeet (speech)
• OmniNeural (multimodal agent)

All on the Qualcomm NPU — 9× more energy efficient and 2× faster than CPU/GPU.

Install is dead simple:

• Download from Windows arm64 SDK

• Follow the steps under "Deploy Section" to get an access code

nexa config set license '<access_token>'

• Run the model: nexa infer NexaAI/OmniNeural-4B

Video demo shows the model reading a poster and scheduling an event locally — no cloud involved.

https://reddit.com/link/1onlrw5/video/6p290iu3i3zf1/player

Repo: github.com/NexaAI/nexa-sdk

Would love to see what Surface owners build with this — anyone else trying to tap the NPU for local AI?

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