Microsoft Surface 3 review:
Pros: The new Microsoft Surface 3 costs less than the Pro version, but trickles down much of the design and materials of its more expensive sibling. Now this budget model tablet finally runs the full version of Windows. The keyboard cover remains the best way to transform a slate into a laptop.
Cons: Trading down to a low-power processor means this isn't a full-time PC. The clever keyboard case is still sold separately, and costs a lot compared to the base hardware.
Microsoft surface 3 launched at a price of $ 499. The only problem is that I was actually using $630 worth of computer. That's because the Surface line's biggest folly continues well into the series' third generation. Its all-important snap-on keyboard, really the most impressive thing about the Surface, is still sold separately, and at a premium price.
That said, the new Surface 3 has corrected the biggest flaw of Microsoft's entry-level Surface tablet series to date: it finally runs the full version of Windows, not the stripped-down Windows RT operating system (unofficially named after the Windows Runtime architecture that enabled it).
Pros: The new Microsoft Surface 3 costs less than the Pro version, but trickles down much of the design and materials of its more expensive sibling. Now this budget model tablet finally runs the full version of Windows. The keyboard cover remains the best way to transform a slate into a laptop.
Cons: Trading down to a low-power processor means this isn't a full-time PC. The clever keyboard case is still sold separately, and costs a lot compared to the base hardware.
Microsoft surface 3 launched at a price of $ 499. The only problem is that I was actually using $630 worth of computer. That's because the Surface line's biggest folly continues well into the series' third generation. Its all-important snap-on keyboard, really the most impressive thing about the Surface, is still sold separately, and at a premium price.
That said, the new Surface 3 has corrected the biggest flaw of Microsoft's entry-level Surface tablet series to date: it finally runs the full version of Windows, not the stripped-down Windows RT operating system (unofficially named after the Windows Runtime architecture that enabled it).
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