The actual drawing experience isn’t unpleasant though, so while we would assume this is a better product for photographers or graphic designers, it’s still perfectly serviceable for illustration. This information isn’t available anywhere to confirm, but there is noticeable parallax when compared to sketching or illustrating on a 2020 iPad Pro. The display is actually almost identical to the one on the original Surface Pro 7 too, so while it would be understandable to include the thick screen bezels in an enterprise-only device to avoid accidentally touching something on the display when holding it, it appears that Microsoft is just fine with the ugly styling as it made the same appearance in the original consumer-targeted product.Īnother disadvantage it has against the current generation of Apple iPad Pro tablets is that the Surface Pro 7+ doesn’t appear to have a laminated display.

The Surface Pro 7+ also isn’t as bright as the 2020 iPad Pro, achieving around 392 nits of brightness (against Microsoft’s promised 400) while Apple’s offering can measure in at 550. All that said, the Surface Slim Pen 2 greatly outperforms the older Surface pen and improves on things like tilt recognition, so if you can look past the funky shape then you’re golden. You’re getting 4,096 pressure levels of sensitivity too, which is the same as you’d get using Wacom One Pen, but that’s still around half as much as you’d get in the more powerful Wacom display tablets. While both generations of the Apple Pencil resemble…well, a pencil, the Surface Slim Pen 2 has a slightly unnatural shape and weight to it that doesn’t quite meet the same comfort standards. This lower number isn’t the end of the world, but it certainly doesn’t give it much of a spotlight against the iPad Pro range of tablets, even when considering things like the style of each brand's respective styluses. Comparatively, the 2020 iPad Pro 12.9-inch (something we can consider as the Surface Pro 7+’s closest competitor) can achieve around 120% sRGB colour gamut. PixelSense is a Microsoft branded touchscreen tech that optimises multitouch, hand gestures and optical recognition, and our tests saw that it achieved around 91% sRGB coverage.

The 12.3-inch PixelSense display has a 2736x824 resolution, capable of switching between different enhancement and colour modes. The screen may look a little dated thanks to those chunky bezels, but thankfully the tech is still competent.

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