It’s by no means a dealbreaker, but we just wish the battery had a little bit more juice. Movie playback impacts the battery pretty badly too, unfortunately, but it’ll comfortably play a movie at full volume without needing to be charged. It can hit the advertised 10.5-hour battery life from full charge if you’re simply word processing, but in practical terms any strenuous tasks will cut that in half or worse, though this is typical for laptops with a bit of grunt to them.

The Pro 7’s battery is pretty lacklustre, falling short of the older Pro 6 in battery life tests. Unfortunately, this powered-up performance has come at a cost. We tested a handful of games (including Portal, Dirty Bomb, Everspace and, you guessed it, Crysis) and it handled most of them pretty well. Gaming in 1080p is actually viable here – not at ultra settings, certainly, but good enough for a spot for Fortnite if you have a mouse. The new Iris Plus graphics make a huge difference, though. It’s worth noting that if you’re looking to do serious professional studio work like 4K video editing, you’re still probably going to want a proper laptop. It’s more competent in every area, whether that’s 3D rendering, video encoding or crunching equations. The difference is significant the newer processors offer performance improvements of around 20% over the Surface Pro 6. This model is currently priced at £1,449, but more on that later. Our unit has a quad-core i7-1065G7 processor and 16GB of RAM, making it the most powerful version of the Pro 7 (although this model only has 256GB of storage, which can go up to 1TB). This tablet is rocking one of Intel’s new 10th-generation CPUs, which not only brings improved general performance over older processors, but also comes equipped with Intel’s new Iris Plus integrated graphics – provided, that is, you don’t buy the version with an i3 processor. The Surface Pro 7 does differ from its forefathers in one very key regard: the internal hardware. (Image credit: Future) Microsoft Surface Pro 7 review: performance

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