*** The Official Microsoft Surface Thread ***

Glaucus said:
10 is great on tablets.
Sounds like an upgrade mess. However now it's activated do a clean install, it fixes most peoples issues.
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Compared to 8.1 its a mess even with a clean install.

It saps battery life.
Fan is on excessively.
Palm rejection is screwy.
Not as stable. (even had a random reboot)
Charms menu was good, not have easy access to fine brightness control is bad. 4 settings is not enough.
Microphone is not working well with Cortana after resume from sleep.
Edge is good but unstable.

Even the login screen is a mess it judders, flashes and jumps around whilst logging in.


With a fan-less design you would not notice as many issues.
 
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Has anyone deployed these at their place of work?

We've installed a 8.1 image on some, but are finding they keep restarting themselves into the BIOS and the back of them is red hot. Users who are using them are only using Office (Outlook/Word/etc) which shouldn't be to straining for an I5. Anyone else had similar?
 
Got bored waiting for news of 4, and plumped for a lenovo miix 3 in the meantime. Cheap as chips at £150 with keyboard.

If/when they release news about 4, I'll have this as a backup.
 
I'm with POB. Windows 10 has been utter pants on my Surface Pro. It's less stable than 8.1 and the UI is simply inferior on a tablet. Every one of POB's criticisms is very valid. I would add that Edge just isn't as tablet friendly as the last Metro version of IE. No swipe to go back/forward, address bar at the top, small buttons/icons etc.

Only reason I haven't ditched it is because I'm using Xbox One game streaming.
 
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Some apps are nto working on my SP3 since the upgrade, I think a re-download would solve this, but each time I open the store it says it cant connect to the server.
 
Upgraded my SP2 to10 on release day, not had any problems in fact the problems I had with heat on Win 8.1 have disappeared since the upgrade.
 
Has anyone got a Surface 3 (ie not the Pro version), and if so, how is performance? I'd be using it for emails/Office, web browsing, media, and possibly some light gaming (Civ V and Football Manager). How would it cope?

Or am I better off waiting until the SP4 is announced, and hopefully picking up a SP3 second hand at a similar price to the Surface 3?
 
manic111 said:
Has anyone got a Surface 3 (ie not the Pro version), and if so, how is performance? I'd be using it for emails/Office, web browsing, media, and possibly some light gaming (Civ V and Football Manager). How would it cope?

Or am I better off waiting until the SP4 is announced, and hopefully picking up a SP3 second hand at a similar price to the Surface 3?
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From what I've seen it should cope fine.

I've just ordered a Surface 3, possibly to replace my Pro 3. Arrives tomorrow.
 
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Now I have both :p

Also I've owned every Surface again :rolleyes:.

This new one is the 64GB LTE 4G Version. With 4GB Ram.

It might be replacing the SP3. The SP3 I don't use its potential very often and would prefer the smaller tablet. Most of my SP3 usage is Netflix and browsing :o.
 
How do you rate it so far, other than the Surface 2 I have also had all of them, bar this new 3, I am tempted to get one though just to see how slow they are, given they now run full fat Windows they are a hell of a lot more useful, all the RT made me realise is I needed a Pro...
 
Trig said:
How do you rate it so far, other than the Surface 2 I have also had all of them, bar this new 3, I am tempted to get one though just to see how slow they are, given they now run full fat Windows they are a hell of a lot more useful, all the RT made me realise is I needed a Pro...
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I paid £300 for it new on eBay:D (had a 10% voucher it was £330) Would never have got the LTE version normally.

Only a few very initial impressions:

The Pro 3 has the nicer screen. The S3 is not bad (still great) but has a slightly sharper feel, text is smoother on SP3.

SP3 front panel is smooth. My S3 at-least has the metal case slightly higher than the touch screen, which you feel as you slide to the edge. It is uniform however.

Seems quick so far, but installing Visual Studio at the moment to see how that goes.

So far it feels quick enough. Internet Explorer is working fine with the the Visual Studio install in the background.

Best thing is no throttling or fan, currently turboed up to 2.37ghz and it not getting hot :)
 
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Downside, forever and a year to charge. Yes I'm still bitter about Intel managing to Nerf a good chip.
They really need to brake the cycle and release both surface 4s at the sake time, then hopefully the non pro version can get a faster charger, possibly using USB C.
 
Glaucus said:
Downside, forever and a year to charge. Yes I'm still bitter about Intel managing to Nerf a good chip.
They really need to brake the cycle and release both surface 4s at the sake time, then hopefully the non pro version can get a faster charger, possibly using USB C.
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Faster would be nice.

But I'm happy with USB charging I'll always have one.

Number one wish would be SSD support for the Atom.
 
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