Silver Microsoft Surface Pro 4 12.3 Inches Laptop Review

It seems like the big question right now is, "Do I get the Surface Pro 4 or the Surface Book?"

I'll explain why I chose the Surface Pro 4, but first, a quick about me. I am a college student majoring in EECS and I commute 4 hours a day by bus so having a light backpack is important to me.

The S.Book is almost two times heavier than the SP4. It packs much more computing power than the SP4, but as an EECS major, I don't need the extra power that the S.Book has. I don't plan to play any intensive games or render/animate things so the SP4 fits my needs better. The S.Book also has a $400 higher price tag ($270 if you get the Type Cover for the SP4) that I'm not willing to pay for unneeded performance. I haven't tried the S.Book's keyboard, but the SP4's keyboard feels great to type on and other reviewers have said both keyboards are amazing. Reading textbooks or other PDF's feels much more natural with the SP4's tablet form. The S.Book without the keyboard... Read more

Currently, I have owned 4 Surface Pro 4s, 3 of which being replacement devices. These replacement devices came recommended by Microsoft Customer Service because they were unable to fix the defective Surface Pro 4 unit before it. It was unfortunate that 3 of the 4 Surface Pro 4s had glitches, bugs, and defects. This negative experience lasted from November 2015 to April 2016, far too long to say the least, but this negative experience has had it's end. During that time, I went from "disappointed yet hopeful" to "totally giving up". And though I had given up, Microsoft Customer Service had not. They reached out to me, apologizing to me once more for my less than perfect experience, and assured me that, if given another chance, they could provide a replacement device that worked. I decided to give it one more try. Microsoft kept that promise. After replacing the 3rd defective unit, I can announce with confidence that the 4th and current Surface Pro 4 works flawlessly. No... Read more

✓✓✓ You will love the Surface Pro 4 if:

☛ If you care about the using it as a tablet AND as a laptop. Surface Book screen is bit too large to serve as a tablet (“clipboard” as they call it), plus in the clipboard mode it has under 3 hours of battery life. So the Surface Book is going to stay as a laptop for the most part of its life, unless carrying around a 13.5” inch tablet (Oops, Sorry..Clipboard..!!) is one amongst your hobbies. NO, the keyboard won't charge the Surface Book Screen when docked - Don't let your imagination run wild..!!

☛ If you care about the light package that Surface Pro 4 offers. There is a difference in almost a pound on the weight between the two, plus the dimensions are smaller for SP4 compared to Surface Book, which adds to the ease of carrying it around.

☛ If you care about fact that Surface Pro 4 is the 4th iteration of surface devices, while the Surface Book is the... Read more