If a button week, Microsoft Surface Pro 3 on sale in Norway and 27 other countries. When it has already been launched in the United States, Canada and Japan. Third Generation Land has consistently received good reviews in the international press. Yesterday received the Norwegian IT press its test specimens and we’ve spent barely 24 hours to familiarize ourselves with Surface Pro 3 We come back with a solid test of Surface Pro 3 before it goes on sale on Thursday 28 August.
Same, but new
Visually, there is no doubt that Surface Pro 3 still belongs to Microsoft Surface-family. Meanwhile Surface Pro 3 had some important improvements to Surface Pro 2 makes it even more likely to take over from the traditional laptop.
– People expect that technology is with them all the time and there is no longer a clear distinction between work and leisure. The core concept of the Surface Pro 3 is that it is optimized to allow users to switch between work and leisure, between productive and creative work and play on the other side said Tom Vandendooren, sales manager for Land in Europe, the Norwegian press release yesterday. In addition, it was stressed that the Surface Pro 3 is a tablet with a keyboard, but a full-fledged PC, which will also be the only computer you need.
And just where did the previous versions of the Land some weaknesses, as we pointed out in our tests. Among other things, it was almost impossible to sit and write a Surface on your lap, something we often do journalists at press conferences, airports and other settings in which you do not always have a sturdy table to put your PC. In such cases, a regular laptop have been more stable. It’s not called laptop for nothing.
OPTIONAL ATTACHMENT: To increase stability when Surface Pro 3 is used on your lap, Microsoft keyboard equipped with an optional magnetic mount. The top image shows a normal connection and on the lower part of the keyboard flipped up and festset monitor. © Hallvard Lunde, HjemmePC
This is new
Microsoft has taken some important steps to Land Pro 3 The most important thing is that the keyboard is upgraded. It was also with Surface Pro 2 but on Surface Pro 3 has the magnetic fastened received an additional magnetic field so that it becomes like a dobbelhengsel and the area of the keyboard that is attached to the screen becomes larger.
This allows the Surface Pro 3 is more stable when it is used, for example while you have it on your lap. In addition, the kick stand – or support the back of the screen – become new. Now it is no longer only two adjustments, but you have more choices with a gradual transition from a very upright position to an almost flat position (22 to 150 degrees). This makes it easier to find a comfortable working position. And tall people will no longer struggle as much to get a good viewing angle, which actually was a problem in the first versions of the Land.
The unit has also received an upgrade. Now plug a little “find” that makes contact easier slipping into the charging jack. In the preceding Surface models, we experienced several times that the PC is not charged up because the magnetic switch not set 100 percent in the right position.
How much Microsoft has done with the keys on the new keyboard, we are a little uncertain. It may seem as if the keys have been given a little more resistance. While the size of the keyboard layout seems to be relatively equal between Land Surface Pro 2 and Pro 3, as the latter has been given a larger touchpad with physical pressure points in the two bottom corners. So far it feels a lot better.
Lighter and thinner
Although the appearance is similar to its predecessors, it is indeed Surface Pro 3 thinner and lighter than Land Pro 2 Surface Pro 3 is only 9.1 millimeters thick and weighs 798 grams (without keyboard).
The screen has also been upgraded on Surface Pro 3 that’s has grown from 10.5 to 12 inches and the aspect ratio is changed from 16: 9 on Surface Pro 2 to an aspect ratio of 3: 2 on Surface Pro 3 In comparison, the iPad an aspect ratio of 4: 3.
Our immediate impression of this change is positive, since 16: 9 screens are often a little ‘broad and narrow’ and makes you lose some “height” on the screen. “Height” is nice to have when connected to the keyboard (landscape mode) and you will be writing in Word or surfing the web. When our man fit more information in the height of a screen with aspect ratio 3: 2 compared with a 16: 9 screen. With the same number of inches is 3: 2 screen simply a larger screen area than the 16: 9 screen.
The screen resolution on Surface Pro 3 is also upgraded to 2160 x 1440 pixels. The screen is blank and that of its predecessors, we think fingerprints and grease stains sitting a little too well. The glossy screen makes lamps and other shiny things easily create reflections in the screen, but so far we think the screen brightness mostly manages to counteract this.
New Pen
Surface Pro 3 also get a brand new pen. This is developed by Microsoft and has also received several pressure-sensitive zones.
It’s been a little thicker, which we think makes it more ergonomic. In addition, it has been more buttons. A push button on top can be programmed, for example, to open a blank page in OneNote notes application. Our initial impression of the pen is that it is good to take notes with. Microsoft also says that they have worked hard to reduce the delay between the pen and the screen so that your feelings are as natural as possible.
Equal feed
On the inside it’s also done a lot to make room for a powerful PC -innmat placed into it most of all looks like a large tablet. According to Windows-director of Norway, Christian Almskog, Microsoft has developed over 100 components for yourself to achieve this. Inside, our test unit located a fourth generation i5 processor, 4GB memory and a 128GB SSD. Surface Pro 3 also comes with Intel Core i3 and Intel Core i7 processor and various configurations of memory and storage. As before, we have written that we must steer away 64 GB version, since these positions are constantly plagued by poor storage. On our 128 GB drive has 93 GB free after we just set up Windows.
In relation to Surface Pro 2, we find only a small change in the type of processor on the new Surface Pro 3, so we expect the Surface Pro 3 performs on par with its predecessor.
Preliminary conclusion
After using Surface Pro 3 active in less than 24 hours, it is too early to draw a final conclusion. But many of the improvements are for the better. We like that the screen is greater, the keyboard has become more stable and one can select the display angle. We’re a little excited about battery life and we see that some foreign tests have commented that it could be better.
We must also point out that Surface Pro 3 is no cheap PC alternative. The combination of Intel Core i5 and 128GB (which is the lowest spec you should buy – i3 / 128 GB does not exist) costs 8645 crowns. In addition, make out with 1.119 million for the keyboard and strictly speaking you should have a dock to 1729 dollars. When the price of “PC” 11,493 crowns. In addition, you can probably probably add on a thousand patch for an additional power supply (nice to have one at work and one at home) and various adapters.
We must say that the Surface Pro 3 may be the product that can actually replace a regular traditional laptop and give mobile workers a tool that is both possible to use at work and home and where the pen might can help you finally can take digital notes. We’ll be back with a full test with test results and measurements within a few days.
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