We measured our Core i5, 128GB Surface Pro 3 at 813g. Microsoft says the Surface Pro 3 weighs only 800g. Either way it’s the thinnest Core PC ever made. The Surface Pro 3 measures 292 x 201.3 x 9.1mm, although that thickness figure increases to around 16mm with the Type cover included. One of the benefits of that bigger display is that there is more space in which to fit the Surface Pro 3’s excellent components, and so the more powerful Pro 3 is actually thinner than its predecessor, and indeed any similar full-spec Windows PC. Read on as I look at build and design, performance and specifications. In this article I review the Surface Pro 3 from a technical standpoint. But Microsoft is for just about the first time now turning a profit on its Surface business, so perhaps I was wrong. I have always believed that people like having a separate Kindle or iPad for fun things, and a laptop for work. It is indisputably a high-class device, a great feat of engineering. If the Surface Pro 3 is a success then OEMs will be keen to head in this direction. Microsoft and Intel really want the Surface Pro 3 to succeed, as it showcases the possibilities of the Wintel combination and put Windows 8 into competition with mobile devices such as iPads and Android smartphones.As Intel Core M chips come on stream, and Windows 10 nears, expect to see these types of hybrid device proliferate. If you can cope with a marginally less than stellar typing experience, for instance, you can do everything wherever you are. Very quickly you realise that portable power is the name of the game here. And although it is possible to use the Surface Pro 3 as a tablet for the consumption of movies and e-books, and for social networking, it’s a very big and heavy slate. It is the most portable power laptop I have ever used, but even despite improvements on previous models it isn’t better to use than a laptop. I’ve been using the Surface Pro 3 for several months now.
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