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I bought a Surface Pro 11 (base model) the day it came out, to replace my Surface Pro 7. Great little machine! Battery life is ridiculously improved, sleeping and waking actually work this time, Bluetooth now behaves like it should, ergonomics are better. For my use case, as a YouTube/Netflix machine first and foremost, and laptop-for-emergencies as a distant second, it's a tremendous improvement.

Haven't tried photo editing yet.

The old Surface survived about two hours of YouTube on a full charge. The new one uses 10% of its battery for that. It's ridiculous.
 
I've had the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 Copilot+ PC 16gb RAM X Elite 512gb storage for about a week. Overall I absolutely love it. As for the specific use of photo editing, I have found it to work great for Photoshop & Lightroom Classic with two exceptions. With Photoshop, I've found a few issues with plugins. Particularly Topaz Labs software. Not really an Adobe problem as much as it is Topaz not playing well with ARM. As for Lightroom, my only issue has been with the automatic denoise. Every photo I've tried with it says it will take 45 minutes to complete. But, using the manual sliders to denoise works fine. Overall I am more than happy to use it as a thin & light laptop/tablet that can fit in my backpack. It is perfect for quick edits and to be able to download on site. 99% of my editing will always be done on one of my home PC's that are much more powerful. Oh, and the OLED screen is amazing!
 
LakeSuperior1 said:
I've had the Microsoft Surface Pro 11 Copilot+ PC 16gb RAM X Elite 512gb storage for about a week. Overall I absolutely love it. As for the specific use of photo editing, I have found it to work great for Photoshop & Lightroom Classic with two exceptions. With Photoshop, I've found a few issues with plugins. Particularly Topaz Labs software. Not really an Adobe problem as much as it is Topaz not playing well with ARM. As for Lightroom, my only issue has been with the automatic denoise. Every photo I've tried with it says it will take 45 minutes to complete. But, using the manual sliders to denoise works fine. Overall I am more than happy to use it as a thin & light laptop/tablet that can fit in my backpack. It is perfect for quick edits and to be able to download on site. 99% of my editing will always be done on one of my home PC's that are much more powerful. Oh, and the OLED screen is amazing!
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Would you give the Lightroom (non-classic) app a try with the DeNoise step? This is supposed to be an arm native app and I am curious if it uses the NPU/GPU on the Snapdragon. Load up TaskManager on the side with Performance view. It will show you NPU/GPU utilization. If it takes 30 seconds rather than 45 minutes then it's likely fairly well optimized.

Thanks!
 
As per the title, any Spyder or Colorimetr, etc. screen colour calibrator working with the ARM Win11?
 
My X-Rite Colormunki Smile is not recognized by DisplayCAL.
 
bastibe said:
My X-Rite Colormunki Smile is not recognized by DisplayCAL.
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My guess is that there's no X-Rite Windows ARM driver for the Colormunki, and may never be since X-Rite appears to have transferred its colorimeter business to Calibrite; they might be the ones to contact.
 
Austinian said:
bastibe said:
My X-Rite Colormunki Smile is not recognized by DisplayCAL.
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My guess is that there's no X-Rite Windows ARM driver for the Colormunki, and may never be since X-Rite appears to have transferred its colorimeter business to Calibrite; they might be the ones to contact.
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As far as I know, DisplayCAL comes with its own drivers. But they don't appear to be working here.
 
bastibe said:
Austinian said:
bastibe said:
My X-Rite Colormunki Smile is not recognized by DisplayCAL.
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My guess is that there's no X-Rite Windows ARM driver for the Colormunki, and may never be since X-Rite appears to have transferred its colorimeter business to Calibrite; they might be the ones to contact.
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As far as I know, DisplayCAL comes with its own drivers. But they don't appear to be working here.
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Thank you, I had forgotten that. DisplayCAL itself is AFAIK no longer supported. I just looked on a ArgyllCMS page to see if they might have such drivers, but I see no sign of Windows ARM support yet.
 
I think I saw the DisplayCAL devs working towards a new version recently. IIRC, it needs to be translated to Python 3 or something similar, which is apparently quite the undertaking. I thought I read something about an experimental version already being available.
 
bastibe said:
I think I saw the DisplayCAL devs working towards a new version recently. IIRC, it needs to be translated to Python 3 or something similar, which is apparently quite the undertaking. I thought I read something about an experimental version already being available.
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That's good to know. I don't have a Windows ARM PC yet, but I think we'll see more support as time goes on.
 
Austinian said:
bastibe said:
I think I saw the DisplayCAL devs working towards a new version recently. IIRC, it needs to be translated to Python 3 or something similar, which is apparently quite the undertaking. I thought I read something about an experimental version already being available.
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That's good to know. I don't have a Windows ARM PC yet, but I think we'll see more support as time goes on.
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I am expecting Snapdragon/nvidia systems in the next 6 or 7 months. That's when things will get awesome. Off load graphics processing to a GPU for massive performance for creative projects.
 
bastibe said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
CAcreeks said:
Yesterday their review appeared:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Micro...-serious-MacBook-Air-competitor.857051.0.html

Seems like they recommend the non-Elite "Plus" version, which saves $600 and performs almost the same, in current tests. It's nice that the SSD is replaceable, but memory is not.
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Memory upgrading is basically a thing for workstations now, not laptops. Unfortunately.
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That will likely/hopefully change with LPCAMM2 memory modules within the next year or so.
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I hope so. At least some of the Dell Precision mobile workstations seem to have that, but it's expensive last time I looked.
 
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bastibe said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
CAcreeks said:
Yesterday their review appeared:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Micro...-serious-MacBook-Air-competitor.857051.0.html

Seems like they recommend the non-Elite "Plus" version, which saves $600 and performs almost the same, in current tests. It's nice that the SSD is replaceable, but memory is not.
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Memory upgrading is basically a thing for workstations now, not laptops. Unfortunately.
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That will likely/hopefully change with LPCAMM2 memory modules within the next year or so.
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We can only hope. Dear PC manufacturers. Please give us upgradability back. Thanks.

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The Point and Shoot Pro said:
bastibe said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
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Memory upgrading is basically a thing for workstations now, not laptops. Unfortunately.
Click to expand...
That will likely/hopefully change with LPCAMM2 memory modules within the next year or so.
Click to expand...
We can only hope. Dear PC manufacturers. Please give us upgradability back. Thanks.
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At least we get easy hard drive upgrades. More than Apple allows...
 
bastibe said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
bastibe said:
The Point and Shoot Pro said:
bastibe said:
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Memory upgrading is basically a thing for workstations now, not laptops. Unfortunately.
Click to expand...
That will likely/hopefully change with LPCAMM2 memory modules within the next year or so.
Click to expand...
We can only hope. Dear PC manufacturers. Please give us upgradability back. Thanks.
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At least we get easy hard drive upgrades. More than Apple allows...
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We can even upgrade our "ipad pro" storage. The surface pro has had removable SSD for a few years now. ha ha.
 
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