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Used for: More than a year
Drives a monitor and charges off one cable
Loses half its charge sitting shut over a weekend
Two stars, and the reason is the same one every time I pick it up: standby. Shut on Friday with sixty percent, opened on Monday at nine, and that has been true since the first month. Everything else is decent. The screen is lovely for documents, the pen works, and it drives a monitor off one cable at my desk. But a machine at this money should be usable the way a tablet is usable, which is to say picked up and used, not plugged in first. I have turned off every power setting I can find and it has made a difference of a few percent. The folio has also gone shiny where my wrists sit, which after a year of ordinary office use looks worse than it should.
Used for: More than a year
Everyone in the house has found a use for it
A weekend away means packing the charger
It came into the house as a work machine and has quietly become the thing everyone borrows. Films on the train with headphones, the six year old drawing on it for an hour while dinner cooks, my wife doing the accounts at the kitchen table. A weekend away needs the charger in the bag, no getting round that, but a full day of ordinary use has never run it flat. Two years on, the screen has no marks and the kickstand has not loosened at all!
Used for: More than a year
One cable at the desk brings monitors, keyboard and network
The kickstand is no use on an actual lap
Bought to replace a work laptop and eighteen months later it has, with one caveat that anyone considering it should hear. On a desk it is faultless. One cable to the dock brings the two monitors, the keyboard and the network, and the VPN behaves exactly as it did on the laptop because it is the same Windows underneath. On a lap it is not a laptop. The kickstand needs depth that a lap does not have, so on a train with the tray down it is fine and on a plane in economy it is not. Battery has held up better than expected, still a full day of meetings and mail, though it wants longer on the charger than the old laptop did. The fan comes on under anything heavy, which in a quiet meeting room is more noticeable than the noise deserves.
Used for: 3–6 months
Pen lag is genuinely gone
Old Windows programs have buttons too small for a finger
Drawing was the reason for buying it and on that it delivers: the pen lag is gone, the pressure curve feels right, and a stylus that sticks to the edge magnetically is a small thing that stops it getting lost. What nobody mentions is that Windows is still Windows with a finger. Half the buttons in the older programs are the size of a grain of rice, and tablet mode helps with the shell and nothing else. The screen shape suits an A4 document better than a widescreen laptop ever did, and a drawing on one side with reference photos on the other actually works at this size. A terabyte matters if you keep layered files. Four stars because at this money the folio and the pen really ought to be in the box.
Used for: 1–3 months
The pen lives on the side of it
Lectures are the whole reason it was bought, and handwriting straight onto a slide deck beats any notebook, though the folio is what makes it usable for writing the essays up afterwards. The pen sticks to the side and has never once been left behind!
Used for: 1–3 months
Two machines out of one bag
The folio is not included
Folio on, it is a laptop. Folio off, my son watches cartoons on it!
Used for: More than a year
Still quick after years of daily use
The charging port fouls the kickstand hand
Third year of daily use and still no reason to look elsewhere
Used for: More than a year
Hard to give a machine five stars when it needs three accessories before it does the job it is sold for. The tablet alone is not a laptop: add the folio, add the pen, add a dock, and you are past the price of a very good laptop that needs none of them. It is well made and the screen is the best thing about it. But two ports, one of which is usually the charger, means a hub lives in the bag permanently, and at this end of the market I resent that.
Used for: Less than a month
Wants a folio and a pen before it does anything useful
No learning curve at all: the work account signed in, the desktop arrived from the old machine inside the hour, and every awkward internal program that would never be an app just ran. That is the argument for this over an iPad, though you pay handsomely for the privilege.
Used for: 6–12 months
Handles a full day of calls and documents
The fan spins up on long video calls
Nine months in, the only complaint is that the fan wakes up during long Teams calls!
Used for: Less than a month
First week of carrying it instead of a laptop and the bag is noticeably lighter, though the folio adds back more thickness than the photos suggest. Windows Hello signs me in before I have finished sitting down, which after years of typing a password feels like a trick.