Microsoft - Surface Pro 6 - 12.3" Touch-Screen - Intel Core i5 - 8GB Memory - 256GB Solid State Drive - Black

This is a MUST HAVE for students. Taking note with surface pen feels like using 0.5 mm pen. However, the matte black finish is really fingerprint magnet and I have to clean it every 3 days (together with the screen since I take notes a lot). Also, it doesnt come with office 365 so I have to use my school office education package for that (if you're not student, you have to pay for using word, excel, PowerPoint...). Otherwise it's perfect

I had a 17 inch HP Laptop. My office is upstairs and this is where I worked on my desk. This is perfect because I can now work from wherever I am while using the same Microsoft & other products such as Adobe.

I love my surface pro 6. Easy to use and very cool look. Easy to move around and long lasting battery.

This is my first time buying the surface pro. I was a windows computer user for a while until I had to replace it and buy my old Mac Air. But as an IT professional, I can only use that for limited work, and as a student, it was alright. I used to own an iPad as well. It was great, but I couldn't use it effectively for my profession. I've been looking forward to buying a surface pro, but it was too pricey. Someone finally convinced me it was time to upgrade and try the device. It did not disappoint me. I can bring it practically anywhere. I even brought it during work interviews. There was no need for me to carry around my notebook (or textbooks since I rented the digital versions) in class since I've been using this as an alternative. It took me a while to get used to having a windows computer again, and I was not used to Windows 10 yet. The battery life is average as I expected from a tablet. I use mine in a maximum of 5-6 hours. Holding it on your lap will be difficult and it's understandable since it's a tablet and you would have to balance it using the kickstand. I'm not sure why some people expected it to be sturdy when put on your lap or any uneven surface. It's basic physics. The software and touch feature needs a bit more work. Sometimes the on screen keyboard doesn't appear automatically when the keyboard isn't attached. I have Office 365 installed on mine. I'm not sure why but PowerPoint and other office applications doesn't open unless I restart the tablet. Despite these issues, I give this a 5 star due to the portability, convenience, and overall performance.

I've owned two prior Surface Pro versions: An SP 3 and an SP 4. The SP 6 is far and away the most refined and best value of them all. Performance is better, unit is lighter, price is cheaper... so, what's not to like? I have the i5 unit with 8GB of Ram and 256GB of storage. Since I use primarily for travel, I don't need a more highly configured tablet. The SP 4 I own is an i7. Good performance, but battery life is much shorter, runs hotter, and fan noise is very annoying. The SP 6 solves all those issues. Speed is comparable, but battery life is significantly longer and the unit is absolutely silent. I use primarily for email communications and Office apps. Occasionally I'll install a game, which runs acceptably well, but the SP 6 i5 is not the unit I would recommend for that purpose. On balance it's the best value tablet / notebook replacement I've used. Highly recommended.

I’m obsessed with this tablet. Coming from the iPad Pro, this purchase is without a doubt the best one I’ve made. It definitely functions more as a computer which I personally need but I love having the option to also use as a tablet for my drawings. At first I was very scared of getting the i5 because I knew I would be using Adobe products such as photoshop, illustrator and after effects but this baby has power! Of course though when using Adobe I make sure I have nothing else open just to take the weight off but sometimes I will have the Internet open at the same time and still have never experienced any problems. I love it!!

I can not say enough good things about my surface pro 6. I love everything about it and it is the perfect device for me. It may not be the perfect fit for others, but for me it checks off a lot of boxes. The SP6 is easy to set up, cortana works great, windows hello is awesome and the build quality is excellent. I bundled this SP6 with the alcantara type cover, arc mouse and surface pen to get the complete experience. I am not regretting doing so at all. I debated getting the new Apple mac book air but went with this devise due to form factor (2 in 1) portability and the windows experience. I am a business professional and need to have full access to MS Office and Skype for business. This decide covered all those areas and came in at a price that was lower a comparably equipped Macbook Air. I did have to do some research and price shopping to build my bundle but it was worth the time. I can not speak about durability as I have only had the SP6 for a month but over all the build quality seems like it will hold up fine. I am not concerned with nos having USB type C or all these other ports that people complain about. They sell accessories for that! You buy a SP6 for the experience it provides, the easy of use, the portability and the kicker for me was the improved internals. I know that I will have this device for the next several years and I could not be more thrilled. I will be a Microsoft buyer again and will not consider Apple in my future purchases.

I have owned the Surface Pro 3 for around 3 years so I can compare. While the wow factor is gone for me, I'm still very exciting about how far this device has evolved. The obvious thing out of the box is the new black color. The matt black finish is very fine looking and doesn't pick up fingerprints easily. It is slightly rough to the touch which provides a nicer grip. The rounded edges and corners make it feel better in the hand. The second thing I noticed is performance. With the 8th generation processor doubling the cores, and a faster SSD, the performance is noticeably faster in most operations. Astonishingly this happens all while the device feels cool to the touch. The surface pro 3 always felt warm, even when it didn't seem to be doing anything. Normal use doesn't heat the device up. The warmest it got was when I was doing all of the upgrades, but I never once heard fan noise, I'm not sure the i5 version even has a fan. The SP3 fan would come on often. Windows Hello (facial sign-on) works excellent. It is so fast that it isn't annoying. I did the facial test with my glasses and it works fine. Then it wasn't working without my glasses. There is a way to give it more training and after that it works with or without my glasses. Powering on the device never seems slow. Sometimes on the SP3 pressing the power button would take a few seconds before anything appeared on the screen - making me wonder if it was working. The SP6 shows a windows logo immediately, even on a cold boot. A cold boot takes around 15 seconds to see the desktop. That includes the facial recognition part. Warm turn on until you see the desktop in a second or two. I also setup my fingerprint reader from the Keyboard I got with the SP3. It works perfectly! I have never had it not work with the Surface Pro 6, but it often wouldn't work with the SP3. I would have to detach, reattach sometimes to get it to work on SP3. I feel like I'm finally getting to benefit from my fingerprint keyboard. All this time I thought the keyboard wasn't reliable, but now it looks like it was just the SP3 didn't work as well with it. Inking is more responsive and natural. The Whiteboard app is very nice, and even works well with finger input. I haven't tried the pen yet. Bluetooth appears to work better with my headphones, and is faster to connect. It works better with my headphones than the SP3. Bezels have been shrunk slightly from the SP3 by dropping the windows key from the right side of the screen, they were able to thin out the bezels. But since this can be used like a tablet having some bezels is necessary for that use case. Overall the feel of this device over the SP3 is very noticeable. They have had years to perfect this design, and I believe they have achieved that. I get to reuse all of my peripherals such as docking station, keyboards, pen, and power supplies. This is what I like to see from a company, a constant pursuit of perfection in a device, and I think they have come close to achieving that. Suggestions: Battery life is good, but can always be better. More advanced change I would like to see is dynamically adjusted bezels - when keyboard is attached in normal use have the screen go to the edges, but when in tablet mode the bezels appear. That way you can get benefit of larger screen area in laptop mode, and the bezels you need for tablet mode. I would also like to see much more attention paid to refining the tablet mode experience - hopefully I'll get that benefit during the time I own this product.