If you just want to see the answers they gave then use this link to the Surface Team’s Reddit profile. The entire thread of the AMA can be seen here and includes both answered and unanswered questions. The other thing here is those previous covers will not properly cover the screen either. Thanks Rafael for the confirmation about the Power Cover. All past covers will work with Surface 3 except the Power Cover will not charge the device. CPU does have thermal throttling to manage heat. Only one external monitor through the Mini Display Port so no daisy chaining like Surface Pro 3. Allows for good battery life and subsequently keeping the battery small. The Atom x7 was chosen over the Intel Core M to keep Surface 3 light and thin but gets great performance with Burst Mode. The kickstand for Surface 3 has three stops and not the continuous one like Surface Pro 3 to optimize size and cost. Performance of eMMC on Surface 3 is 50% of the SSD on Surface Pro 3. Performance for gaming/graphics is 70% of the Surface Pro 3 (i3), in 3D Cloud Gate. Performance of Surface 3 is 85% of Surface Pro 3 (i3) in PC Mark 8 Creative Benchmark for video editing. Battery of Surface 3 will give 10 hours of video playback – same stat as Surface 2. No additional regions are being added beyond those already announced to receive Surface 3. No current plans for trade-ins of previous Surface devices for Surface 3. Uses same networking hardware as the Surface Pro 3. Has TPM in the firmware on the SOC (System on a Chip). Supports InstantGo aka Connected Standby. LTE versions, due later this year, will have GPS chips in them. This one resulted in a lot more questions being answered as last year’s event moved a lot slower in that area.Īnyway, let’s run down some of these items of interest for Surface 3: I also remember following the Surface Pro 3 Reddit AMA last year and they have definitely upped their game.

While there was nothing earth shattering revealed about a future Surface device, although many tried to pry that info out of the team, there was some interesting performance related info and other tidbits. Microsoft’s Surface team, led by Panos Panay, has just wrapped up an hour long Reddit Ask Me Anything event where they fielded questions from the public about the Surface 3 which was announced this past Monday.

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