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Title: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: Redaktion on March 23, 2021, 06:01:03
LTE modem, Tiger Lake, replaceable SSD - Microsoft adds new features to the Surface Pro 7 and names the whole package Surface Pro 7 Plus. Consumers can't buy the device (yet). The sales group is limited to companies and schools for the time being.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-Surface-Pro-7-Plus-in-review-Tiger-Lake-provides-a-performance-boost.528729.0.html
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: xpclient on March 23, 2021, 07:54:43
Still sticking to the Surface Connect port is a mistake. Should have had Thunderbolt already. Eventually it will have it when Windows gets built-in USB4/Thunderbolt 4 support but until then it's a compromise to buy this.
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: Mothertrucker19 on March 23, 2021, 10:35:08
The one year warranty is an US only thing isn't it?
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: Mothertrucker19 on March 23, 2021, 10:36:34
Quote from: xpclient on March 23, 2021, 07:54:43
Still sticking to the Surface Connect port is a mistake. Should have had Thunderbolt already. Eventually it will have it when Windows gets built-in USB4/Thunderbolt 4 support but until then it's a compromise to buy this.
Why not both?
Also TB4 is an implementation of USB4 so they could've called it that instead of TB4, if they had it. But intel probably wouldn't like that.
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: pR on March 23, 2021, 12:01:12
probably. bough from Germany with a business card and on the list of my devices on microsoft.com it shows 2 years warranty.
Quote from: Mothertrucker19 on March 23, 2021, 10:35:08
The one year warranty is an US only thing isn't it?
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: Mothertrucker19 on March 25, 2021, 15:47:25
Quote from: Dorby on March 23, 2021, 14:35:21
2100 EUR / 1900 USD, just to get the 16GB of ram, which in my case would be a requirement.

That's a bit much.

On the german site the cheapest with 16Gb of RAM is 1679EUR.
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: Hifihedgehog on April 19, 2021, 15:12:26
> quad-channel mode [memory]

This is incorrect. Tiger Lake-U only supports dual- and single-channel memory. I think you are confusing the number of memory modules or something or another with the number of actual memory channels. Only HEDT and server platforms currently support quad-channel memory.
Title: Re: Microsoft Surface Pro 7 Plus in review: Tiger Lake provides a performance boost
Post by: xpclient on April 26, 2021, 20:39:35
Quote from: Mothertrucker19 on March 23, 2021, 10:36:34
Quote from: xpclient on March 23, 2021, 07:54:43
Still sticking to the Surface Connect port is a mistake. Should have had Thunderbolt already. Eventually it will have it when Windows gets built-in USB4/Thunderbolt 4 support but until then it's a compromise to buy this.
Why not both?
Also TB4 is an implementation of USB4 so they could've called it that instead of TB4, if they had it. But intel probably wouldn't like that.

Not both because internal PCIe lanes are limited.