


Importing and exporting were agonizingly slow via the lightning cable and Apple made storage card readers. My iPad pro turned out to be a very good iPad-the iPad is a great device for the phoneless iPhone it is- and not much else for how I prefer to even basically process raw images. This is a Windows device and does not have the APP ecosystem of a phone/tablet OS if such things are important to you. Windows touch controls are not as sophisticated as with iOS but fortunately it is NOT iOS which has gotten more buggy with every update. I did not like WH at first but I kind of do now. Startup time with Windows Hello rivals what Apple has inflicted on users with the latest version of iOS.

Although reviewers have knocked this that could protect many users because the way USB C power is configured in some devices can be unusable or damage peripherals as the standard is ill defined (been there, lost a USB C storage device to a desktop with an overpowered USB C port). The S7 has its own smallish power brick and power connector that is not USB C form factor. It is difficult to find a Windows laptop with a comparable screen, but there are a few the ones I have seen are all priced well north of $1k. The screen has excellent color and resolution on a par with a MacBook Pro. I do not regret the purchase, the more I use it the more I like it, but there are some things about using this particular device for image processing that I could not find before actually buying the thing. I bought it from Microsoft at their Black Friday sale price which included the keyboard/cover. I have the Ice Lake" i5 Surface Pro 7 with Iris Pro graphics and 8gb RAM.
