Microsoft Surface Pro X：Windows没有X（86）

一个rticle By : Brian Dipert

一个s I briefly mentioned a few months back (see “一个holiday shopping guide for engineers: 2021 edition”），与以前的概念批评相反（请参阅“手臂上的窗户：苹果所有的挑战都没有魅力”），第三次是尝试购买的魅力Microsoft Surface Pro X：

在那一年的文章中记录的收购尝试是我的（更准确地说是我的妻子的）在2020年11月初首次尝试，并受到（除其他事项）缺失的交流适配器的挫败。我随后试图购买Surface Pro Xfrom theeBay网站的经过认证的翻新部分a few weeks later for around the same price, just under $1,100 inclusive of sales tax. But the merchant reported that inventory was already depleted when my order came in, canceled it, and promptly refunded my money. And my last (but definitely不是least) attempt was last June, again aneBay认证的翻新项目(ironically from the same merchant), this time for just under $800 with tax. It apparently pays to wait!

这三个系统有意均具有相同的规格：

• 这Qualcomm 8cx-basedSQ1 Soc，自继任SQ2的边际性能改进没有证明价格上涨是合理的（至少恕我直言）。
• 基线256 GBYTE SSD与昂贵的512 GBYTE变体相比，我知道，如果我将来没有空间，我可以自己升级存储(something I’ve actually already done, via a $150+ 1 TByte Western Digital m.2 2230 drive complete with a 2-year extended warrantyoff eBay，并且仅由于当前对Windows-on-Arm的“克隆”软件支持的当前缺乏而复杂化的过程。
• 相反，16个GBYTE与8 Gbyte基线相比，两者都避免了未来的过时（因为不幸的是，如今通常情况下，记忆被焊接到主板上……在苹果的情况下，它甚至是integrated alongside the processor in a common package）并为X86仿真提供内存净空。

To that latter point…my interest in the Surface Pro X (and Windows-on-Arm more generally) has always been on its promisedfuturecapabilities versus any underwhelm in its existing status. As I wrote a year ago, the platform’s Win32 emulation support, albeit seemingly robust, was being rendered increasingly irrelevant by application developers’ migrations to Win64 code and APIs. And although Microsoft’s efforts to加强Win64的功能是切实的, they didn’t come robustly orquickly(theother我第一次购买Surface Pro X的原因没有足够），以显着“移动针头”。

That said, everything changed last October via a completely unexpected source: the release of Windows 11. Although Ilargely panned it for x86-based systems, due to its seemingly prematurely-obsoleting CPU and security requirements, it was conversely anidealsolution for Windows-on-Arm, thereby compelling me to upgrade to it as soon as it was available (and, in related news, compelling Microsoft toMothball进一步的X64仿真工作在Windows 10上一个月后，为了将进一步的开发重点放在未来的单个操作系统基础上）。

如果只有我的首选程序的Win64版本，我不再需要樱桃挑选的手臂或Win32应用程序变体，也不再需要搜索不可避免的劣质应用程序替代方案。一般来说，实际上，我很难找到Windows应用程序惯于successfully install and run on the Surface Pro X, with a couple of exceptions:

• 在线交付，基于订阅的产品套件。Microsoft rolled out an Arm-native Office app suite a while ago, unsurprisingly, but Adobe’s Creative Cloud currently only offers Photoshop, Lightroom, Camera Raw and Acrobat DC as options for the Surface Pro X. I also have a couple of older versions of Adobe’s Creative Suite, but they flat-out refuse to install on Windows-on-Arm; then again, they不完全功能on reliablyon Windows 10 for x86, either, so…

• 使用专有API的应用，例如Dropbox。这S ModeDropbox App版本可用，而且总比没有好，但是它是一个significantly inferior alternative获得功能丰富的服务体验。再说一次，Dropbox花了一年多的时间才发布其用于MACOS的应用程序的公共观察手臂本地版本…but then again, the Rosetta 2-emulated version of the app had already been full-featured albeit slower and more power-hungry…so I have no idea when (or if, for that matter) full Dropbox support for Windows-on-Arm will ever appear. Sigh.

On that last point, to be clear, “native” software is always optimal, of course, from compatibility, performance, and power consumption standpoints. But the few aforementioned exceptions aside, I’m otherwise solidly satisfied with the experience of running Windows 11 and various applications (both native where available and emulated otherwise) on the Surface Pro X. My longstanding desire to be able to (modestly, admittedly) use a computer for an entire day solely running on battery power is finally a reality. The integrated LTE connectivity is similarly invaluable to实现我的移动计算愿望。具有触摸能力的LCD的分辨率很高（2880×1920，267 ppi，3：2纵横比），具有丰富的色彩深度，并且几乎不含边框。该系统是轻巧（1.7磅/774 g）和Svelte（0.28“ /7.3毫米厚）。以及随后购买的配件的稳定，所有获得或以全新价格的折扣处轻轻地使用或停产，已经整齐地完成了图片：

• 一个签名键盘，具有集成的无线充电支持，对捆绑的Slim Pen(which I admittedly haven’t used much to date):

• 一个nd, for when I want to use the Surface Pro X as a conventional laptop, i.e.,on my lap, aBrydge SPX+键盘：

• 一个表面码头2连接(因为扩张Kensington hasn’t yet made a docking stationfor this particular Surface variant):

• 一个颜色协调的移动鼠标：

• 一个nd a set of第一代表面耳机：

这种特殊的系统配置是否在两年前以其原始的1499美元的零售价，并且最初的缺乏（模拟，更不用说本地）应用程序支持，值得吗？或任何初始系统，向下延伸至Bare Bones 8GB/128GB No-LTE $ 899配置或一直到顶级16GB/512GB $ 1,899设置，这是如此吗？

除了光滑的促销视频，no。即使在今天，借助一代纽约操作系统并显着增强了应用程序支持，他们仍然在MSRP仍然很重要。而且，请不要让我开始使用269美元的签名键盘加上Slim Pen 2套件或其他任何配件。但是，在我为新系统和同样讨价还价的配件支付的大约一半的MSRP中，这是一个更容易吞咽的主张。

我会用预告片结束；这不是only我最近提到过的像这样的微软品牌系统……并获得了……与当前不足的现实相比，以未来的升级承诺和与原始MSRP的显着折扣相反。来临的文章将做“全蒙蒂,” of course; for now, all I’ll say is that it’s also touchscreen-supportive and optionally controllable via the Surface Pen. Ideas? Or thoughts on anything I’ve said in this post? Let me know in the comments!

本文最初发表在EDN。

Brian Dipertis Editor-in-Chief of the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, and a Senior Analyst at BDTI and Editor-in-Chief of InsideDSP, the company’s online newsletter。