As far as Microsoft has said, the x86-64 emulation will start rolling out to Windows Insider testers in November. However, at the time of writing, the new feature wasn’t live and I wasn’t able to test it. In short, it means that the Pro X (2020) and presumably the Pro X (2019) will soon have access to more Windows apps than they currently do. If that sounds like gibberish to you, I don’t blame you.

The Redmond, Washington-based company plans to roll out support for emulation of x86 64-bit (also called x86-64) apps on ARM processors. The most significant change for either the Pro X (2020) or Pro X (2019) is still on the way. The main three differences between this year’s and last year’s Pro X are as follows: new chips, new colour and new price.Īlthough the hardware changes are minimal with the Surface Pro X (2020), Microsoft could very well invalidate everything I say in this review in the next few months. I’ve been using the Pro X (2020) for about a week and, aside from being at my home office, it feels a lot like last year. For the sake of my sanity (and yours), I’ll refer to them as the Pro X (2020) and Pro X (2019) throughout this review.

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro X is the same as the old Surface Pro X in almost every way, including its name. If it weren’t for the fact that the pandemic has me stuck in my basement working on this review instead of sitting in the MobileSyrup office, I’d say I have a bad case of déjà vu.

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