Yeah, I have the SP1, and I can completely understand why someone would

Sep 16, 2014
5:39:43pm

benny1982

be turned off by those things. They haven't bothered me, so I've been able to enjoy it, but the SP3 looks to have improved in all of those facets, as well as battery life, which is actually really annoying with the original.

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As a current Mac user, I just can't see the benefit to an OS (like Windows 8)

Cougar-Duck

9/16/14 5:02pm

Touch for surfing, non-touch for documents. Pretty logical to me.

Fdnman

9/16/14 5:06pm

Mixing is fine, the problem was forcing touchscreen interfaces on all devices

DapperDan

9/16/14 5:06pm

I think that Microsoft would like the Holy Grail of devices that can be both a

titlecoug

9/16/14 5:06pm

Surface Pro 3

Heinz57

9/16/14 5:07pm

I have the SP2 and love it. It is my go to device at home and work.

Jeremy

9/16/14 5:11pm

This ^^

vandalcoug

9/16/14 5:14pm

I need to give the SP3 a test drive one of these days.

Cougar-Duck

9/16/14 5:15pm

I was very impressed

vandalcoug

9/16/14 5:21pm

Same here. I need to get a laptop in the next couple of months and it'll likely

Conan O'Fresno

9/16/14 5:42pm

The problem is this is the minority opinion. Microsoft can't sell these things

TrueAndBlue

9/16/14 5:23pm

I'm assuming you're talking about the regular Surface Pro, because the SP3

benny1982

9/16/14 5:27pm

can the SP3 run any program a normal windows 8 desktop can run

El Joffrey

9/16/14 5:32pm

Yeah, the Pro versions of the Surface computers all run full Windows.

benny1982

9/16/14 5:38pm

These are all good points. I may have used one of the older models. So that is

TrueAndBlue

9/16/14 5:35pm

Yeah, I have the SP1, and I can completely understand why someone would

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