Ahh thats kind of funny. She has been looking for you. Cortana might be having a rampancy moment. Now she might be thinking about locking you in a cryptum for 10,000 years but dont worry. All is good.
Just got to check this out at a bestbuy. The hardware is supper nice. Puts my SP2 to shame. The keyboard is 100x better than mine. I love the smaller bezels too, and the weight. It's tempting me to upgrade.
However it also highlighted why Windows 10 kind of sucks. Now that the keyboard and trackpad are amazing, the SP4 works great as a laptop. However now W10 doesn't play well with touchscreens and tablet mode. I also saw why fullscreen apps aren't fullscreen, because now there is no dedicated Windows button on the tablet, so there needs to be a bar at the bottom of the screen. This kind of screws over SP2/3 owners though.
I wish there was a 16gig i5 version :/.
Might be getting one of these next month.
Anyone else having the touch screen stop working constantly? I'll be browsing the web or doing something and suddenly all touch input stops working. I have to restart to get it to work again and it seems to happen quicker each time I restart.
I'm not even joking it happened half way through typing that. It's getting to be outrageous. I've already had to restart 4 times in the last hour
Yep I've had this happen a couple of times. Even more annoying if you dont have the keyboard attached. Seems like the touch driver crashes and is only fixed by a restart. Its the worst bug ive seen on Windows in years.
Well that's disappointing. Admittedly I hadn't used my SP4 in a few weeks, but had it completely shut down (at full charge).
Battery is dead (date is showing December 2nd <_<) so I need to charge it up.
So I learned what happened was while I shut it down, I closed my type cover as soon as the screen went black, so it didn't entirely shut down, but instead went to sleep.
So I have had the device for about a week and havent noticed any major glitches with the track pad or trouble waking up. Am i in the minority?
I just restarted to reset it after it last crashed in my previous post, logged in, touched the Edge icon... Stop responding again. I'm going to try this 2 button restart on the MS support page.
Edit: Well that seemed to work. I've used it for a few minutes now and it hasn't stopped yet. It's clearly a software issue, really hope MS gets this stuff figured out sooner rather than later. I wouldn't recommend this thing to anyone in its current state.
Have had my i7/8GB/256GB for about a week too and nope, no problems here either.
Just got to check this out at a bestbuy. The hardware is supper nice. Puts my SP2 to shame. The keyboard is 100x better than mine. I love the smaller bezels too, and the weight. It's tempting me to upgrade.
However it also highlighted why Windows 10 kind of sucks. Now that the keyboard and trackpad are amazing, the SP4 works great as a laptop. However now W10 doesn't play well with touchscreens and tablet mode. I also saw why fullscreen apps aren't fullscreen, because now there is no dedicated Windows button on the tablet, so there needs to be a bar at the bottom of the screen. This kind of screws over SP2/3 owners though.
You can gently swipe down on metro apps and hit the double arrows to make apps full screen and get rid of the bar at the bottom.
I've been using my SP4 lots over the holidays, and I'm a big fan now. I can't imagine myself going back to my laptop.
I'm considering buying the MS Arc Touch mouse to go with it. Do any of you have it? Can you recommend any other bluetooth mouse for portable use? The lack of extra buttons worries me a little, but I can live with out it.
I've had the Arc Touch mouse since the Pro 1, and I still use it now with the Book. It's obviously very portable when flattened out, so it's easy to bring with you and it works well if you have a small surface space to work with (which is when I use mine).I've been using my SP4 lots over the holidays, and I'm a big fan now. I can't imagine myself going back to my laptop.
I'm considering buying the MS Arc Touch mouse to go with it. Do any of you have it? Can you recommend any other bluetooth mouse for portable use? The lack of extra buttons worries me a little, but I can live with out it.
I've been using my SP4 lots over the holidays, and I'm a big fan now. I can't imagine myself going back to my laptop.
I'm considering buying the MS Arc Touch mouse to go with it. Do any of you have it? Can you recommend any other bluetooth mouse for portable use? The lack of extra buttons worries me a little, but I can live with out it.
My 8gb i7 shows up today, anything I should know?
I've been using my SP4 lots over the holidays, and I'm a big fan now. I can't imagine myself going back to my laptop.
I'm considering buying the MS Arc Touch mouse to go with it. Do any of you have it? Can you recommend any other bluetooth mouse for portable use? The lack of extra buttons worries me a little, but I can live with out it.
If you are a student or teacher, you can get a 10% discount directly from MS. When I ordered the Book I used my son's school and got the discount without needing to verify anything. He is a student though, and I was getting him a new computer so it was (mostly) valid.Do Microsoft have a track record for discounting the surface line? Hoping for a 10% off deal soon (kicking myself for not grabbing one at the airport recently at £100 off)
I would agree with this. The Arc is much better than the trackpad for precise pointing, as well as dragging, but the scroll wheel/trackpad isn't as precise. I also have it jump around sometimes, and it can be easy to accidentally page down (tap the bottom). That being said, it fits almost everywhere when travelling and is more comfortable than just the trackpad.I bought the arc touch. It's great for its portability and can slip in my bag with almost no footprint. There are clear trade offs though, the big one being the middle scroll. It works but I find using it always a little off: sometimes your middle finger will try to scroll but not touch the pad, sometimes it doesn't scroll as much as you'd expect, middle click not always reliable. I still carry it around because it is better than the touchpad if you need to drag select or move to hints around a lot.
Get all the updates including the firmware updates.
I'm considering an i5 8gb version, especially for Illustrating needs. I'm having trouble getting past seeing stuff like this, though. Can anyone here tell me if this is your problem as well? It's kind of a deal breaker if so.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...s/1166c1db-1779-4be6-afc6-7c5ca63868be?page=1
Okay, thanks. Nice work btw.
Precisely the same situation. I even set up a desk downstairs, but it was too uncomfortable to set up a laptop with small tablet, so I never want to draw there while I'm relaxing with my GF in the evening. My A4 intuos goes unloved right now because this is a better working setup. Definitely recommend Manga Studio though for keyboardless drawing.See I'm in the same position (slump) as a stay at home dad right now. I only occasionally do charcoal commissions nowadays. I need something portable, but I want to make sure it's not too inferior to my Intuos 3. I need to be creating more, but at the end of the day, I'm wiped, and staying upstairs with my wife while creating is what I'm looking for.
Done. Have used it for about an hour so far, and the only thing that sticks out is the trackpad inconsistency. Two finger swipes to scroll in chrome work like, 50% of the time? It's a bit weird. I'm also not able to get two finger taps to right click to work in all programs.
Edit: also insane fan speed increase when just using chrome.
I'm honestly not sure if that's a problem with the device/OS or if it's just Chrome being Chrome.
Chrome has been a desktop only browser for me because of the performance cost
Edge seems to be much better optimized. I can watch Youtube videos in 1080p without the surface getting hot. When using Chrome and doing the same the device gets warm and sometimes the fan starts to run.
Just one thing keeping me from using Edge more, AdBlock support.
Please add extension support ASAP. I refuse to surf the web with ads.
I've switched away from Chrome entirely in favour of Opera. Runs great on my SP4. No regrets.
"I'm watching you sleep chief..."
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