Is the Surface Pro 4 a secret emulation BEAST in 2024?

[@jamaicansole1]

0:01 holy bleep! Answered the thumbnail question, right of the bat.. thank you for not click baiting us

[@unoriginalname3442]

Betteridge's law of headlines in effect

[@JoseOrtiz-pc6mg]

I have a PRO 7+ and this thing is impressive. Versatile, durable and it GAMES! I have easily played GTA5 and many other games. Mine is PRO7+ with a i5 11th gen with 8gigs. No lag on WORD, EXCEL, or anything else. Going on two years and not a single blue screen, EVER! Maybe the PRO4 is garbage but I can surely say that mine has never gave me issue. Battery is really good too!!

[@Shuhkky]

Yep I've also got a pro 7 and it can run really well (though it doesn't like 3ds annoyingly)

[@jellyscape]

i would hope a 2 year device wouldn't lag on word or excel

[@JoseOrtiz-pc6mg]

@@jellyscape Right??? 😂 but for a heavily used device, you'd be surprised how many do begin to lag. I use my Surface FOR EVERYTHING. This thing is effective and efficient.

[@aresnightgod]

I have the surface pro 6 with i5, 8gb and 128 gb + 64gb ssd and I am also in love with the performance, especially its battery is so damn long! I can use it for completely 9 hours without any issues!

[@bgfewfa]

I can't get the usb to even boot 😐

[@clydemarshall8095]

Funny thing is I am watching this on a Surface Pro 4 that so far as I know was never replaced or bricked during its use by my mother before being handed down to me.

[@romanithedino5289]

Well done. Sorry I had to bail during live premiere. Discord notifs were good. Glad I saw them and got in in time for the start of the vid.

[@Bulian]

No worries my dude! Glad you caught some of it 😁

[@johnnylinares9554]

He has a 4 gb ram no wonder it couldn't run anything for you.i have a i7 16 gb ram it's a beast

[@zengodda1642]

I just bought one for school and to play some games when I’m traveling, what games have you tried ?

[@hamzaansari4172]

I have the same one but I'm getting 25-30 fps in LOL. What could I be doing wrong? I updated everything, installed new fresh windows. Still same fps.

[@snark567]

@@hamzaansari4172 You're not doing anything wrong. I have an i7, 16 gb ram one. It's not a "beast" by any stretch of the imagination. The device overheats incredibly easily as soon as you start doing anything more demanding than browsing and watching youtube videos. The overheating causes the device to throttle and the performance dips like a MF. I can get FPS dips even when playing 16 bit titles. Get an external fan that attaches to the surface pro to cool it off and next time go for a laptop.

[@WiiMan3121]

A couple days ago I got a surface pro nine and I gotta say it’s a kick ass laptop. It’s pretty snappy with multitasking, but I didn’t do gaming yet. The 16 gig ram sure as hell helps but I’m not sure if it’s single channel or duel channel for surface pros even if the processor is a 12th generation Intel, I seven with a base speed caulking at 2.6 GHz.

[@itzzjok3rzz208]

i have the surface pro 3 i5 model and i still use it for minor things like netflix and on the go travel, never had any problems with it as of yet, except for a couple of bsods in its life its been pretty stable

[@Subh8081]

My missus was using a SP3 until last week. Still pretty good for streaming and browsing on the go and the occasional document editing. She now has the SP6 I was using, and I got a renewed SP7+. These devises are great. But a few of these have known issues. Some SP4 had screen flicker issue and some just died. SP7 had touchpad freezing issue. Usually, these problems happen in the first year or these devices run forever.

[@itzzjok3rzz208]

@@Subh8081 can agree, mines still going even right now. just the charger itself is struggling on it. sometimes it will charge but make a buzzing sound. other times nothing at all. all official and original. so im deciding whether to just upgrade to a newer device for now, when it does charge though it works absolutely amazingly with windows 11 on it aswell. surprisingly.

[@waddahrasengan3414]

I also bought SP4(i7, 16gb). Man, i don't think I will ever recover from the trauma and I will never ever buy anything Microsoft again or recommend it to anyone. After it i went straight and bought a MacBook pro 13. It just works everything works. No screen flickering no overheating no dead battery next day after charging it to 100% before sleeping. Dual boot both MacOS and Windows.

[@th3_ne0__]

I’m running a surface pro 2017, it is maxed out but it very much impressed me with what it could do. Light switch and Xbox 360 games, a good amount of Wii games, some older triple a titles (I tried metal gear rising, metal gear solid 5 (that one surprised me the absolute most) gta 5, gta 4, need for speed carbon and a lot of titles around that era) and they ram locked at 30 or 60. In my personal opinion, the sp4 and newer will still do good enough for daily use if you debloat and lighten the system, maybe even change the battery out for a new one. As for physical issues, something I’ve noticed happened to my pro 5 and my fathers pro 4 is that the touchscreen would just touch and hold on the right edge of the screen, turns out this was from years of use and it was easily fixed by a calibration tool. Needless to say I am very happy with my surface experience, I currently have a surface book 3 with a 1660ti max q and will continue to use this until I deem fit.

[@yahiaibrahim1412]

Bro, I have the pro 8 i7, I open 250 canon camera images in photoshop at the same time and edit them with no issues! I use two semiconductor fans while doing so and other heavy lifting. It's a pure monster.

[@aresnightgod]

If you need a perfect university surface tablet buy the surface 6 pro! It has the best battery life, best performance, best smoothness, best everything. I have the surface 6 pro i5, 8gb, 128gb + 65gb and i am IN LOVE.

[@generalshakewell]

I actually just ordered one for drawing. I'm honestly shocked how inexpensive they are.

[@oscarl.3563]

I'm on SP6 right now. Good to know you can get a controller with bluetooth.

[@ramiy2843]

Your are making very good content! Keep up the good work 👍

[@Bulian]

This means a lot! Thank you 😁

[@HamguyBacon]

I think most of the problems you had was due to how the emulator was coded, for example not having vulkan support since Microsoft uses its own version of intel HD graphics driver that does not support openGL

[@ragecandy]

you obviously did something wrong if you can't run gba

[@xXBLAKGOATXx]

Wow im honestly amazed idek how you can do that i can get gba running on a potato

[@glutenthelibarator]

Love it man keep it up

[@conandude76]

actually, microsoft did a silent recall (didn't recall it, just put a deadline up for a known issue and if you sent your's in in time, they would replace the battery controller and the screen), if you didn't make it by the dead line , or bought one after deadline that was on the shelf since then and never got replaced, you were sol when it died 5 weeks or so later as the store only did 30 day, and microsoft wouldn't honor any warrenty at all. Now I have one that won't boot, and had had the fuzzy screen issues that plagued them at launch. I've heard louis rossman and a few others will do screen replace and battery controller swap, but the cost involved you can just go get another, more modern and powerful, device.

[@hyugatoni.]

How could they not recover your files? I own a repair shop and whenever I got a dead not repairable surface I'd just take it apart and put the M.2 drive (that MOST surfaces have depending on storage option) into a different computer and or put it into an M.2 to USB converter and give it to them.

[@Bulian]

Geek Squad,they are useless 😅

[@VintageCR]

"The amount of work and time it would take to walk through these steps, costs a lot of money, its easier to simply give the customer a new device and we will send the old device for back for RMA" meanwhile MS isn't losing any money, they will repurpose the device or 'fix' it and put it back on the shelf.

[@peterouspensky7794]

Mine is 8GB version, still works great!

[@profilmwork]

I think that was a big part of his problem, his only had 4

[@localshowershitter7590]

I have the maximum on it with an i7 chip and it’s awesome I can play wow and hearthstone emulate old games

[@jasonkosmaczewski2809]

How did you connect the joycon rails to the surface?

[@Eric_s2002]

Velcro...

[@ravajbains8672]

Duckstation for psx emulation

[@grantschilb8019]

Yeah. Duckststion is extremely stable and even supports achievements

[@jabariiwilliams5279]

So you went home to try the new charger instead of plugging it in at the store? Bro what? 😂

[@PatPatych]

You should try modern surfaces, they are awesome. :-)

[@machinastudiolaphotographi6911]

where can i buy those controller

[@freeranger1677]

I have two Pro 4s and a Pro 3 and the only time they have shut down is because of overheating due to me blocking the ventilation grills or using them with red hot sun shining directly on them. Either yours were from a bad batch or you are causing it to over heat, I suspect the latter.

[@tube56t53]

Got mine 1 year ago for £120

[@AsustelGamesOfficial]

My surface pro 4 works fine

[@robertopallaro6558]

as argentinian, we can get one for 10 minimun wages, i have a surface 4 pro, that i get used, at work pretty well

[@Treynath84]

Struggles to run PSX games, but it can play PSP fairly well, weird. The PSP can play PSX games if converted to the right format, wondering if they'll perform better like that than they do on a PSX emulator.

[@LuisPerez-5]

How is it poorly designed?

[@NCXitlali]

You forgot dreamcast

[@mustang.]

On wind 10? Windows 11? Typing from my phone while my sp4 is getting 24h2 21h2 was a wreck. I recently installed 22h2 on a 2006 pc core 2duo with mediocre gpu that wasn't for gaming at the time. And I can play nfs4, bf2 and quite alot of games decently. Trying 24h2 on sp4 and crossing fingers, if not will downgrade it to 22h2.

[@ArthurCallahan389]

I’m new to all this. I know this’ll sound ignorant to a lot of people. How would I run batocera from an external hd on a surface pro 2? Is it a plug n play thing or is it more complicated than that? I’ve got the sfp2 with an i5. It’s capable for what I want I think. Thanks for any info.

[@INFPQ]

I love the funny background images

[@liberdelta]

What were the specs of the pro 4? You said had 4gb was it the pentium one?

[@mack2771]

I have the 4 I really like it I would get another one

[@CommanderMouse72]

Mate of mine went through 4 surface pro 4s

[@mrwilliamdailey]

Try tiny11 and do this video again you will be surprised

[@troylollysaf9311]

Could it be his 4gb ram slowing some emulators down??

[@WiiMan3121]

That’s probably the case because it needs a stronger ram like at eight gig and over to have a better experience with the emulator’s like the PS1 Dreamcast to some degree Aunt, and 64

[@ramsesgarciaortega4024]

How many RAM does have your surface?

[@geek612]

2:35 - 4GB

[@lobstercation]

The surface uses a modified version of windows probably throttling like theres no tomorrow. I'm going to try installing batocera on my surface and see what happens

[@Bulian]

Let me know how it goes! This could be viable

[@lobstercation]

It works pretty good so far up to PS2, i have a wired controller though and i set the device to the lowest screen resolution. At the native resolution i notice lag.@@Bulian

[@punkysuen]

How to mount the joy-con onto Surface Pro?

[@Bulian]

I ripped the rails off an old switch and stuck them to either side with command strips

[@24karatjay]

Where can I find those controllers? Or is it an adapter?

[@Bulian]

These are actually just regular Nintendo Switch OEM Joycons with a shell swap. If your device has Bluetooth capabilities, you can connect them :)

[@DatAsuna]

Immediately answers the title question? Immediately hit like.

[@kristophermitchell]

Thanks

[@samsen3965]

Great and understood this is a piece of junk (Thanks indeed as I was to buy one cheap used one!), but for the heaven's sake, what is a good old tablet that can do basic needs and reliable, even if slow, PS and some minimal video work, in addition to handwritten note taking and a good smooth stylus and touch pad. Thanks if you dar to answer! 😁

[@colinstech6601]

Oh god he has the bad ones. Mines the i7 8GB lol…

[@HaydenLacoste]

Its the worst version of the sp4

[@beinggood4U]

Loved watching this video on my Surface Pro 4, so far never had any problems. It works great for day to day working, streaming or RDT. But, it is getting a bit slow due to it's 4gz of ram. I do wish it was upgradeable. I am looking at upgrading (I really am an Apple girl) because I have just a couple of clients with software that will only work in Windows environment. But it's really cool I can hand off to my nephew as a large screen gaming tablet

[@cavejohnson5796]

I have a Pro8. I recommend installing Linux it's fairly easy, and the system is a million times faster after

[@WANAKO503es]

Wanna play games buy console o pc gamer but try to play on surface pro wtf this are regular laptop tablet 8gb ram 16gb ram

[@jcali1323]

I can’t stand GeekSquad 🤣

[@Fr6]

There are different surfaces pro 4s though ....I have no issues with mine

[@troylollysaf9311]

What game systems emulate good on yours?

[@Fr6]

@@troylollysaf9311 would not suggest emulators on it. Just got a g14

[@xXBLAKGOATXx]

Im curious as my chromebook runs dreamcast and psp going to try playstation next i use my surface pro as a media computer i used tp game on my surface back in the day running a variety of mmorpgs and indie titles

[@japanesemickeymouse6694]

Red Ring Of Deat all over again :)

[@gman510]

The surface pro with only 4gb of ram is absolutely trash I wish I knew more about computers when I was younger in high school, I would not have been sold some over expensive surface that could barely run programs properly 😑🥲