
So if I wanted to work the way I'm used to on the Surface Pro 9 with 5G, I'd just have to live with an experience that's worse than a three-year-old Surface Laptop. I typically run multiple browsers at once, since it's the easiest way to separate work and personal accounts. Microsoft Edge, on the other hand, is snappier all around because it's a native ARM app.

As an emulated x86 app, it's slower to launch and fairly laggy while browsing the web and juggling tabs. While a few of the company's engineers assured me in a recent interview that the performance would be comparable between the SQ3 and Intel models, I knew that was inaccurate the minute I launched Chrome.

Devindra Hardawar/Engadget A better Windows on Arm experience, but not by muchĪfter using the Pro 9 with 5G for several days, I'm even more baffled by Microsoft's reckless attempt at shoving its x86 and ARM product lines together.
