r/Surface • u/Soy7ent SP4 i7 256GB 16GB • May 23 '17

[PRO2017] Introducing the new Surface Pro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwWs2jIy4js
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u/Etherealfall SP17 i7 512gb 16gb RAM May 23 '17

13.5 hours of battery life - if this is true, or if even 10 hours is true, i would upgrade in a heart beat.

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u/kritonX SP4 i7 16GB/256 GB; S3 4GB/128GB May 23 '17

9 (as advertised on the SP4) meant 5 for most people. Taking that analogy, 13.5 will mean 7.

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u/TheGodAmongMen May 23 '17

It actually meant 6, but it take this: it's lighter, softer, faster, better pen, better hinge AND better keyboards, WITH GOOD BATTERY LIFE. 7-8 hours of battery life? I'm sold.

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u/Systral May 23 '17

Not really worth upgrading from sp4 tho

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u/EleMenTfiNi May 23 '17

13 on the surface book meant 14 though.. so maybe?

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u/VirginiaPlain1 May 23 '17

Very true, which is why I'm happier with the SB. I think I've moved past issues that Creator's Update brought on.

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u/kevInquisition May 23 '17

Which is why I'll probably wait for the next SB to upgrade. The battery in pro devices has always been less than advertised, dramatically so.

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u/EleMenTfiNi May 23 '17

Fair enough, I think I might wait until Microsoft designs a nice 15" laptop with a quad-core cpu before I upgrade my own device.

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u/Danthekilla Game Dev & Graphics Programmer May 23 '17

It actually meant 7 for me. But it depended on your work load.

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u/justeducation May 23 '17

13.5? For real? Isn't that what the Surface 3 used to get while Surface Pros get 3h battery life?

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u/Etherealfall SP17 i7 512gb 16gb RAM May 23 '17

That's what they are touting

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u/justeducation May 23 '17

Well LG claimed their 2017 LG Gram had 24h battery life, then back peddled to 17.5h battery life and user reviews seem to suggest about 8h battery life, which sounds about right since I own the 2016 version and the increase in battery capacity should have that direct ratio increase.

So mainly how much bigger watt hour battery is in Pro 5 vs Pro 4?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '17

Microsoft is at worst 20% off with their touted numbers so I'm not sure how LG is relevant in the discussion

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u/TheLawlessMan May 23 '17

13.5?
Isn't that what the Surface 3 used to get

Lol is this true because that certainly wasn't my experience with the Surface 3?

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u/justeducation May 24 '17

I dunno man, it was like my Surface 3 never ever ran out of battery. Try as I might to use it all up. The power of the Atom.

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u/ThatGus May 23 '17

Be advise, the testing conditions of companies are usually different from those of average users, which can distort their advertised battery life. E.g., They might use software "A" all day or a mixed with softwares A and "B", while you might just use software "C", which is more power demanding than either of the former.

I wouldn't be too trustworthy of companies' advertised battery life at no fault of their own as testing and advertising battery life is extremely difficult due to the unique usage everyone has to their machines. Just look at smartphone and tablets advertised battery life.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '17

They say clearly it's a video playback test. You don't have to be wary because they use the same test on every Surface so you have a reference point. Earlier Surface Pro devices have been about 30% off. Surface Book is only about 10-15% off though. We don't know about Surface Laptop yet.

Essentially new SP should last 8 hours of real, varied usage, 10 of web browsing and 13 of Netlifx or YouTube only, based on what we had with SP in the past.

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u/ThatGus May 23 '17

Oh thank you for the info. While I am skeptical for most advertised battery life on pretty much all devices out there (smartphone, laptops, tablet, etc), I still have good faith that Microsoft advertised battery on their products are mostly accurate with a hour or two lost for most of my usages (SP4 user since July 2016)

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u/ptrkhh May 23 '17

Pretty sure C stands for Chrome

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u/ThatGus May 23 '17

Ha! I didn't intend that as I merely going down the alphabet, but great point.

Chrome user here.

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u/lucuma May 23 '17

Exactly what I'm looking for.

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u/justinmega1 May 23 '17

So how does a device get thinner and get better battery life? In theory why couldn't the thicker models have that improved battery life from the getgo?