Which Surface Pro?
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Hard-Drive

Original Poster:

4,291 posts

260 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I'm looking to buy a Surface Pro. Reasons as follows:

-I only have a work PC, so all of my personal docs are on that. Work are fine with that but I want my own
-I had a Surface Pro 4 with a previous employer and loved it
-My iPad is ancient (pre-lightning connector) and is glacially slow
-I love the portability of the Surface Pro
-I already have a dock and pen kicking around

Which one should I buy? Use would be general home PC stuff, documents, internet, Sonos control etc. Perhaps also the odd game, flight sims or something, but I'm really not fussed about stellar gaming performance.

I want the magnetic keyboard style, and I'd like to be able to tether to my phone for 4g internet access if needed. I'm also happy to but refurbished, although I'm wary of buying "second hand" as such as I think it's just a bit risky.

Any thoughts on what to go for? Thanks in advance.

Dicky Knee

1,100 posts

162 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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I can't help with most of your questions but I just received an email from Costco and the Surface Pro 6 with i7, 8Gb Ram and 256Gb SSD is a 'Special Buy' at £999.99.

A quick Google seems it is pretty good (comparative) value.

tinytim123

49 posts

97 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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i5 and as much RAM as you can afford to help future proof it.


sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

281 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Take a look at svp.co.uk

They sell a lot of ex-demo kit, including Surfaces.

I've bought a couple times from them and been very happy with my purchases.

Heartworm

1,938 posts

192 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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sgrimshaw said:
Take a look at svp.co.uk

They sell a lot of ex-demo kit, including Surfaces.

I've bought a couple times from them and been very happy with my purchases.
I remember them start out selling blank disks when cdwriters were a thing, ive ordered a fair bit from them with no issues.

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

281 months

Tuesday 20th August 2019
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Heartworm said:
I remember them start out selling blank disks when cdwriters were a thing, ive ordered a fair bit from them with no issues.
Me too smile

Guess that makes us both old wink

sgrimshaw

7,587 posts

281 months

Thursday 22nd August 2019
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Heads up.

If you want a Surface Pro 6, Microsoft has some special deals from 21/8 to 27/8 on the i5s. Think Currys might have similar deals.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/surface-pro-6/8V...redfaceverviewtab

prices from £779




Hard-Drive

Original Poster:

4,291 posts

260 months

Friday 23rd August 2019
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Thanks for the replies all! Will take a look at some of these...