fatigues_gasolini
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Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Announced (12", 3:2 aspect ratio, new stand)
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Slayer-33
Liverpool-2
DA FUCK
typing from a surface amirite?
Zantetsuken
Member
Could I run FL Studio or any other production software no problem? I’m coming from an old 09 Macbook
Yes you can. I am running Studio One and Ableton for music stuff.
Is anyone having issues with their bluetooth mouse? I am using the Microsoft Arc Touch mouse, and while it worked perfectly on my SP1, it is completely unusable on the SP3. The mouse will work fine for a few seconds, then become unresponsive and jittery for a few seconds. Non-stop.
It makes the touch pad on the Type Cover 2 look like a $10,000 gaming mouse.
EDIT: It seems that the updates fixed this for the most part. There is one issue where the mouse is slow to react when you haven't used it for a minute, but it's not very noticeable.
It makes the touch pad on the Type Cover 2 look like a $10,000 gaming mouse.
EDIT: It seems that the updates fixed this for the most part. There is one issue where the mouse is slow to react when you haven't used it for a minute, but it's not very noticeable.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
I've been trying to find them too. Searching about the website being down in google leads me back to this thread. You figure it's a big enough deal that MS would have offered some alternative place to get the drivers or at least a mention of what's going on. Maybe not enough people care?
GreatMightySymp
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Has anyone who has a ac-wireless capable router been able to get it to use that instead of n-wireless?
My iMac is using ac, but for some reason my SP3 is only grabbing n even though IIRC it's supposed to support ac.
My iMac is using ac, but for some reason my SP3 is only grabbing n even though IIRC it's supposed to support ac.
Well they care enough to murder n-trigs website lol
fatigues_gasolini
Member
I have an ac router. Whats the easiest way for me to check its on ac?
Wow, just saw my previous post. I was typing from my phone and it didnt show that!
GreatMightySymp
Member
IIRC near the top of the "panel" that appears when you check the wireless signals there's a "see details" or something of that effect.
That's where I saw it using n-wireless.
fatigues_gasolini
Member
I think I found it. The wireless protocol lists wireless-ac for me.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Yeah, you gotta assume that's why it's down and yet I'm not seeing many people bitching about it outside this thread.
go to preferences > experimental settings > scale UI 200%
and restart photoshop.
edit: this is on CC 2014 version only. If you have CS6 or something you are outta luck.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
If you have the Creative Cloud version they just released PS 2014 on the 18th and it includes touch controls and the ability to scale the UI to 200% which makes it much easier to use on the SP3.
GreatMightySymp
Member
Hmm, guess I'll try removing and re-adding again later and see if that fixes it.
I couldn't resist an picked it up. Couldn't resist the Microsoft store 30 day return policy. Gonna install a bunch of shit and see if this can really replace the laptop I was thinking about getting.
Lots of people in the Microsoft store too. Kind of shocked. Usually empty like a Sony style or something.
Lots of people in the Microsoft store too. Kind of shocked. Usually empty like a Sony style or something.
its all thanks to GAF link filter
either press and hold link and open in a new tab then click over
or
after the blank page opens, go back to the gaf page then back to the blank page... it will load
it's annoying but you get used to it
Thanks.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Off to try it out.
Iced_Eagle
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It's a full PC, so yes. I have a SP2 and have used it for programming. The larger screen on the SP3 and improved keyboard should make it MUCH better than my SP2.
Before you buy one, go to the MS store and give it a shot and see for yourself.
flaxknuckles
Member
Hey guys, you think the 4gb RAM i5 is enough to browse the net, write shit, and use Photoshop without chugging? I'm hesitant and about jumping in.
Shogmaster
Member
Depends on canvas size. If you do up to around 3400x2200 px canvas, you should be fine, but I do 5000x3000 px minimum and with few dozen layers, it can go over 4GB.
A few questions about the pen, because MS support site isn't clear:
The click to one note feature works, but the right click and eraser buttons dont do jack shit. Any tips?
So this means the pen showing as disconnected is normal? As that is how it shows for me, but it will say connected when I hold down the top button.
The click to one note feature works, but the right click and eraser buttons dont do jack shit. Any tips?
LukasTaves
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You can paste them as files themselves, as a link to a file on another folder, if it's office documents there's also an option to show the content in a editable manner (it opens excel to edit the spreadsheet for instance). You can also insert files as printouts. You will lose their editableness, but you can annotate on them and they get OCR'd.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
How you liking it so far?
Yeah same, and some times the click to onenote doesn't work to me at all. May be because you have to have your pen connected to the device before its in the sleep more. This all should be fixed via software update though. And MS did great with previous Surface Pro firmware updates. They listen and act very fast.
btw can someone PLEASE PLEASE convince me to get i5/8GB/256 version before I put screen protector on my 128GB one lol
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
The N-Trig site is working again, I have pressure in Zbrush now 
I had problems with the pen yesterday, it wouldn't do any of the One Note stuff. I ended up re-pairing it by going into devices and holding down the button on the pen until the light on it started to flash. After that it worked as expected.
I had problems with the pen yesterday, it wouldn't do any of the One Note stuff. I ended up re-pairing it by going into devices and holding down the button on the pen until the light on it started to flash. After that it worked as expected.
Has anyone figured out how to do the double click pen function to send a webpage, photo, etc. to OneNote. Panos did it in the Surface Pro 3 press conference but that isn't doing anything on my Surface.
BTW, everything else works great with the pen. To be able to write real time annotations and highlights in PowerPoint is going to be a game changer for me with my job.
BTW, everything else works great with the pen. To be able to write real time annotations and highlights in PowerPoint is going to be a game changer for me with my job.
flaxknuckles
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Whenever this damn e-gift card finishes processing I'm gonna get the i5 8gb model at my local Best Buy. I justified the price by reasoning that I'd eventually be getting a laptop and a tablet anyway, and they would probably cost more than it would to just get this.
StudioTan did you have a SP2 before this?
I am finding the SP3 slower in most apps compared to SP2 and it is not the screen res, but the lack of the high performance mode I suspect.
For example in Zbrush there is extremely noticeable brush lag if you do quick strokes one after another. To clarify, the stroke itself doesn't lag but the beginning of the next stroke does. I have been trying to turn off the live undo history to see if that's the one causing it, but I am not sure if you can turn it off. There is also crazy stutter when panning with that game character sculpt that comes with Zbrush. I am not sure why that's happening either but my money is on HP mode again.
Also when I installed the new wintab drivers pressure sensitivity stopped working in Sketchbook pro for some reason, I will reinstall it in a bit to see if that fixes it.
Photoshop CC 2014 runs great for drawing. Some heavy filters will kill it though. I had a 2k x 2k file with one layer and some scribbles on it. Ran the new path blur and it got stuck on "calculating" for a good five minutes. This is definitely not a mobile workstation.
MS needs to unlock that high performance mode back on.
I am finding the SP3 slower in most apps compared to SP2 and it is not the screen res, but the lack of the high performance mode I suspect.
For example in Zbrush there is extremely noticeable brush lag if you do quick strokes one after another. To clarify, the stroke itself doesn't lag but the beginning of the next stroke does. I have been trying to turn off the live undo history to see if that's the one causing it, but I am not sure if you can turn it off. There is also crazy stutter when panning with that game character sculpt that comes with Zbrush. I am not sure why that's happening either but my money is on HP mode again.
Also when I installed the new wintab drivers pressure sensitivity stopped working in Sketchbook pro for some reason, I will reinstall it in a bit to see if that fixes it.
Photoshop CC 2014 runs great for drawing. Some heavy filters will kill it though. I had a 2k x 2k file with one layer and some scribbles on it. Ran the new path blur and it got stuck on "calculating" for a good five minutes. This is definitely not a mobile workstation.
MS needs to unlock that high performance mode back on.
StudioTan
Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
No, this is my first Surface. I have an EP121 and this is much faster.
I just tested Zbrush with the Kotelnikoff character and I see what you're talking about with moving the camera. The weird thing is using the scale and move buttons on the right is really fast and responsive so I don't know if it's a power issue. In terms of brush lag I have to go really fast before I see any issues, even with moderately fast strokes I'm not having any issues with sculpting.
Unfortunately Mudbox doesn't work at all. Touch controls work half the time but the pen isn't even recognized at all, even for clicking UI elements.
EDIT: Since on my PC I never use those scale, move and rotate buttons on the right side of the UI I wasn't sure if they actually affect the mesh but after testing it they don't, they seem to do the same thing as using hotkeys. So I guess I'll use those on the Surface for getting around the scene since there is absolutely no stutter when doing so.
Eh, truth be told I'm not feeling it all too much so far. It just doesn't feel like a cohesive, fluid experience. And the trackpad seriously sucks. I'm gonna continue to work with it, but I am on the side of returning it right now.
So far this is fitting the bill for someone that had an ipad, but wanted a slightly more productive version. The tablet experience isn't the greatest though. It still amazes me to this day that a company as big as Microsoft still can't have all the usability stuff apple had. Pages still freeze a bit occasionally while touch scrolling. It's not terrible, but using iPhones and iPads so long you get used to that fluidity
With the keyboard, though, it blows my ipad out the water. Touchpad isn't horrible, but if you are coming from a MacBook I can see why you might be annoyed. The MacBook is a better laptop experience, and the ipad is a better tablet experience, but this feels like the best in between which is what I wanted
With the keyboard, though, it blows my ipad out the water. Touchpad isn't horrible, but if you are coming from a MacBook I can see why you might be annoyed. The MacBook is a better laptop experience, and the ipad is a better tablet experience, but this feels like the best in between which is what I wanted
Holy shit these are the types of tips I need. It is hard to find any tips on good windows tablet style apps in general
I am not seeing any page freezing or anything when browsing on my end and I have some pretty heavy websites open.
On my Surface 2 I'm mostly using Skype, Tweetium (for twitter), OneNote, Nextgen Reader (feedly RSS), and HERE Maps (maps downloadable for offline use). And of course you can pin any website to get an app-like experience. For the Pro there's also VLC.
Yup, previously it was a mess, laggy, and I couldn't even got into the intro of PvZ 2, but now it's been updated and it runs like a breeze
And it has access to the play store
