Microsoft Surface Pro 8-13" Touchscreen - Intel® Evo Platform Core™ i7-16GB Memory - 256GB SSD - Device Only - Graphite (Latest Model)

I’ve had this surface for a year now and as a college student majoring in graphic design, it just works. I can use the Adobe software with little to no problems except for maybe the battery being drained with hefty programs. Regardless, I can travel to school or work and use it for pretty much anything.You wouldn’t want to use it for heavy gaming or design because its graphics card isn’t that great, but it gets you by from your day to day life as well.Overall a quality product and worth its price.

The ability to write and type on this laptop makes it best for note-taking. This laptop also was amazing for doing calculus, physics, and chemistry as I was able to write down problems and go back to edit them later. Most importantly, I'm able to keep my notes organized so I don't end up losing any assignments or pages of notes. Everything else about the laptop, like battery life or speed, is good enough to do typical laptop tasks. This laptop can even run some games that aren't too graphic-intensive with no issue. I have no regrets about this purchase.

So I am OS agnostic but if forced to prefer an OS it would be Linux. That being said I need to work in Windows a lot. I was going to buy a laptop but began to think about the advantages of the tablet form factor. After weighing the pros-and-cons I went for the Windows Surface Pro 8 because there are no decent Linux tablets available and having tested my wife's iPad I was not interested in one of those. I also purchased the flip down keyboard/cover which is a must for my use cases. Long story short I was very pleasantly surprised by the display, performance, battery life, and form-factor with the fold down keyboard. HIINT: Make sure you order the keyboard for the "Surface 8 Pro" there are several older ones that look the same but will not work on the Surface Pro 8.

Like the comfort of having a powerful computer in the small form factor. Battery life is also very good lasts 4 hours with heavy work.

The Surface Pro 8 was delivered toda, early. It was marked "Used - Very Good", but everything about it is Like New. It also came with Windows 11 Pro, when Amazon's listing for the "New" item says Windows 11 Home. Totally satisfied. Thank you ARF Tech.

Wanted a surface tablet.... Got this one. Like it a lot. Need to buy your accessories though, it's just the tablet, charger, and the box.

It should come with a keyboard. Or at least suggest a keyboard at time of purchase. Other than that, I love it!

The media could not be loaded. *update July 1st, Open and set up the device 17th 22, on July 1st 1 the fan broke while device was sitting still on my desk during a Skype call.Amazon customer support said they wont even take a return because the device broke while I was using it (well, its supposed to be used)I'm currently traveling and wouldn't have been able to get it returned within 1 day.Tried the manufacturer route (Microsoft Device Service & Repair says the warrantee is there till 7/11/2023), I'm suspicious of that route because it mentions physical damage is not covered, but a fan breaking loose is indeed physical damage.----Purchased it "sold and shipped by Amazon" in order to avoid issues where sellers send the wrong thing. i7 model.Unfortunately it overheats quickly with sustained work that I thought was not excessive, typical work load includes- Joining a 30 minutes meeting over Zoom or Teams,- Using an external 4k display- Sharing screen for half meeting- Speaking through Krisp- Using Chrome with Google Docs on a couple tabs to review or keep notes etcThis puts the computer to its knees, throttling kicks in and the computer runs at 5% the speed till the temperature goes down.Overall, I'm impressed with most aspects,But this tablet was not designed for sustained workloads, it was designed to keep quiet no matter the cost, even if it needs to slow down the performance to unusable speeds through throttling.