This is a CEO’s computer, not an engineer’s computer, and certainly not a computer for the rest of us. Is getting a thinner device with LTE, a bigger screen, and the happy feeling you’re living slightly further in the future worth the app trade-off? Maybe for a sliver of people who can afford to buy very nice things to do Office, email, and browsing tasks. For the near $1,800 you’d have to spend to get the Pro X model I reviewed, you would be able to buy a Surface Pro 7 kitted out with equivalent RAM, storage, keyboard, stylus, and an Intel Core i7 processor that would be loads faster and also be compatible with all Windows apps.

That rule applies to the Surface Pro X more than usual because the investment is so large. You should never buy a gadget today based on the hope that the software will come tomorrow. The Verge’s Dieter Bohn sums up the challenges of the new device. However, to many reviewers, the technology felt incomplete due to some software compatibility issues. The consensus was that Surface Pro X represents a tantalizing evolution of Microsoft’s device vision. Surface Pro X goes on sale today, and the reviews are starting to role in. The new devices should help boost the Surface division, which saw revenue dip 4 percent year-over-year in the most recent quarter to $1.14 billion. Surface Pro X was one of several new and updated devices Microsoft introduced last month at a big hardware event in New York City.

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