Battle Royale (with Cheese): The Surface Pro X Vs. Intel Surfaces
ARM wrestle?
Ok, let’s try this one again.
I say that because I’ve started, stopped, and restarted this story about ten times now, trying to decide if I was writing a review of the Surface Pro X, a comparison to other Surfaces, or a comparison to the ARM-based M1 MacBook Air. It’s gone through favorable and less-favorable reviews as I’ve tried to settle on my opinion of this device. But maybe first we should look at how I got here.
It all started when I fell out of love with my MacBook.
Look, I didn’t mean to fall out of love with it; of course, that’s what a person (or movie character) says when they no longer are in love. But seriously, the M1 Mac has been one of the best computers I’ve ever used. And yet I still fell out of love with it and it left me searching for something else.
I did some soul searching, trying to figure out where my aversion to using the MacBook was coming from. I mean, I loved this computer. I raved about it. I’ve written multiple articles about it- articles that were written on it- about how good a computer it is. And that opinion hasn’t changed. I do still love the MacBook Air. It is a wonderful, powerful machine. I just don’t seem to love using it anymore. So I began to look elsewhere. I revisited…
