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LOL.

13W is just stupid. Would only leave a couple of watts spare to charge the battery when the Surface is in use. Can you not use a third party charger, assuming it's USB rather than the proprietary connection as used on my older Surface Pro?
 
Apparently not. It's limited by the charging circuit inside the surface and yes it's USB micro.

Utterly ruins the surface 3 into a brick.

I hope it's not a limitation with what Intel has done with the integrated CPU/circuit board and just MS being dumb and someone else release a decent cherry trail tablet.

Also heavily dislike that it's USB.
If you use a device with USB plugged in, almost certain to kill the USB port, with current surface I've never destroyed the port thanks to magnets. However the cases could be stronger, they are not the most wear hardy, surface 2 only 17 months old, wonder if newer ones are better.

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Should see if JL would exchange it + money for something else.
 
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You can see how I hold it, each one lines up with a finger.

The large one by the top of the kickstand slot is little finger and then just work your way up.


Despite that not a single scratch on the screen with zero protectors.
 
Monkeymatt said:
Your hands did that? Do you have acidic sweat?
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You'll like the other side Only really rest it in one finger, can even see where the finger pad sits. also once you wear a whole into it, it then likes to peal. I also wonder what all the layers are, you have the paint? Then a silver layer, then a copper like layer then finally the magnesium body, that's what the central point is through to in this ohoto.

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And I don't think so other devices like Ipad don't do this. Then again they are not this odd construction. Even surface RT didn't do this. Or perhaps this one just has sub par bonding.
 
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My Surface RT has blistering at the top either side of the plastic strip on the corners. Returned my original RT because of it and its also happened on this one.

Looking forward to when a release date is announced for the SP4 as my RT just web browsing is painfully slow going back and forth.
 
Yeah I'm kind of excited even surface 2 is slow these days.

But it needs to be Skylake and it depends how good the gfx improvements are. I'm hopping for a fair jumps over pro 3 due to two generations. Assuming it is skylake.
But then I probably can't afford it, but something else would have to go out the window.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
Huh? Mine charges absolutely fine on battery? :confused:
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That doesn't make any sense.

The charges on surface 3 is under powered and thus charges extremely slow. It's a decide killer, making it unsuitable.

13w compared with 24w and 48w available on other surface models.
Basically twice as slow to charge surface 3, in the 6 hour range. Rather than sub 3 hours for the Rt and 2. Other surfaces can and do easily charge up whilst in use, where surface 3 struggles.
 
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Glaucus said:
That doesn't make any sense.

The charges on surface 3 is under powered and thus charges extremely slow. It's a decide killer, making it unsuitable.

13w compared with 24w and 48w available on other surface models.
Basically twice as slow to charge surface 3, in the 6 hour range. Rather than sub 3 hours for the Rt and 2. Other surfaces can and do easily charge up whilst in use, where surface 3 struggles.
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Complete rubbish. So I put my SP3 on battery and ran Intel Burn Test with the display on 100% brightness until the battery ran down to 50%. Then I stuck in on battery:

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Edit: and I just realised I still had Intel BurnTest running in the background, so that was charging while running at 100% CPU.
 
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That goes against every review I've seen.
I bet someone could do the maths as we know the numbers.

How can it possibly charge faster than surface rt/2 when the charger can only deliver half the power on the 3. The battery can't be half the size.
 
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My surface 3 has no issues with charging through the supplied cable.

I am able to game, watch videos etc and it doesn't run out of power.

I appreciate that it doesn't charge it very quickly but I have run into no issues.
 
Glaucus said:
no ones saying that it doesn't charge, just that it's stupidly slow.
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Which is my issue, the ipad maybe fully charged in under 3hrs. I had a surface RT and that charged quickly.

No excuse for giving it such a s*** charger on such a premium device. Have no issue if all it requires is a higher rated charger. But if it cant make use of it then there is little point.
 
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