Like just about every Surface before it, the Surface Pro 7 isn’t necessarily feature-rich or has many key pieces of software to discuss, which has its pros and cons. (Image credit: Future) Software and features The touchscreen is just as sharp, vibrant and responsive to touch as the previous generation. That is, at least until the company improves the Surface Pro 7 battery life via firmware patches, which is entirely possible, and we'd argue quite likely. Oddly enough, if it’s peak battery life you’re after, you may be better off picking up one of Microsoft’s Surface Pro 6 models. They’ve likely had a fraction of that time to prepare for and adapt to Intel’s shiny new 10nm chips, and this could explain why the Surface Pro 7's battery life is worse than the previous model's. Hardware manufacturers and software makers – of which Microsoft is both – have had half a decade now to optimize their products around Intel’s 14nm silicon. However, Core i5 and i7 versions of Intel’s new CPUs made major boosts to graphical performance, which could come at the expense of battery life. You would normally expect battery life to increase when moving to a supposedly more efficient processor architecture. Likewise, the Surface Pro 7 came up more than 45 minutes short of the PCMark 8 battery test, with the Pro 6 clocking in at a straight 4 hours last year.
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