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The same integrated graphics too, sadly, which limits what gaming I can do, but (with a big proviso below) it's happy enough with stuff like Pillars of Eternity and Cities Skylines, so I'm well-catered to for now. Performance-wise, there's essentially no difference between this and the SP2, as it's essentially got the same processor. I will look like I'm over-compensating for something.īridges to be crossed.

Clearly she already has a hundred thousand other reasons to mock me, so I'm not concerned about using it round the house, but I am going to feel a little self-conscious if I bust this out in tablet mode on the train or in the pub. My partner has described me as 'looking like Moses' when I carry it about. However, in being something like 30% bigger than an iPad it does look frankly comical in tablet mode. Comics on this thing feel like a huge improvement from an iPad or similar. It feels that much more like a magazine, or a Star Trek prop. It's the size that most makes it for me: as well as upping the screen size to 12', the significantly less oblong 3:2 aspect ratio means far more natural typing and CMS-fiddlin', and it's much nicer for reading stuff on in portrait mode than the skinny tower the SP2 became.

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(My year-and-a-bit with the Surface Pro 2 gradually taught me how to live with its insane ways as a touchscreen interface, which are only marginally less insane than its desktop interface).ĭespite being bigger, it's thinnner and lighter than the SP2, which helps a bunch with the gosh factor, but frankly if it was just an upscaled version it would have been laughable and unusable.

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Even my Apple-monomaniacal partner has admitted to admiring this improbably elegant slab from afar, though I have zero doubt that would change to abject hatred the moment she tried to take a ride in the clown car that is Windows 8.1.

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It is something that's very rarely said about Microsoft products, which is 'beautiful.' It is genuinely a proper PC in a tablet's body, albeit a 12' tablet. I eventually struck lucky by spotting a buy it now listing with an extremely foolish price (or a dodgy history I don't want to know about, given the thing still has 11 months of warranty on it) mere moments after it appeared, and I now write these words on 256GB Core i5 Surface Pro 3 with a cyan Type Cover 3. At one point I even tried to see if I get Adam, who lives hundreds of miles away in Manchester, to buy a well-priced collection-only listing up there and post it to me, but someone got there first. I'm talking checking first thing in the morning, last thing at night, every half hour in between, for maybe a week. Once I've decided to buy something, I am relentless about finding the cheapest price possible. There was, of course, no way I could afford one, let alone justify one.Ĭue a whole lot of eBay time.

It was, with miserable inevitability, exactly what I needed. I passed by a Surface Pro 3 display unit while in there, and immediately I saw why the damned thing had been released so soon after the SP2 - it was about 30% bigger, with the aspect ration of a sheet of paper rather than a box of tissues. I didn't want a second device, and especially not an ugly plastic slab, but the SP2 was essentially no longer fit for work purposes. Unfortunately, I finally saw one in the aluminium flesh a couple of weeks ago, when browsing the local Personal Computer World Of Underwhelming Specifications And Scandalous Pricing for a cheap-as-chips typing machine to act as a more logically-sized companion device for the SP2. I'd all but ignored the Surface Pro 3 when Microsoft cruelly released it just 8 months after the SP2, partly because its innards were essentially the same, and partly because if I didn't find out too much about it I might be able to avoid the gut-punch of buyer's remorse. As RPS's backend (snort giggle bottoms) has grown ever-more complicated over the years, I found myself scrolling and swiping about to access all these fiddly little tickboxes and text fields and getting ever so grumpy about it. In the last couple of months I felt as though I was typing while staring through a letterbox. It's not so much that it's just 10.6' across, but more that its 16:9 aspect ratio, while well suited to films and what games it could play, was claustrophobic for writing and CMS work.

Microsoft's tablet/laptop hybrid has served me reasonably well for work and play, but the one aspect of it I increasingly struggled with was the size.

Only slightly older readers may recall my talking about replacing my laptop with a Surface Pro 2 around 18 months ago. Older readers may recall not a lot, what with being old and all.