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Well, just to be clear I'm not saying you won't get another bad one if you exchange now. I just have a lot of experience with electronics. MS is a business like anyone else. This isn't China where bad and fake products are allowed to run rampant without any consequence. This is a reputable...

Online opinions and reviews are always skewed toward the negative. Most people don't say anything at all when things are fine. But at the first sign of trouble they will go online and post a dozen times how horrible it is. Trust me, as a former business owner I know. Or to give you a real...

I've been updating my i5 sp3 to the latest everything since yesterday. So far, I really like how well made this thing is. Visual studio is working great on it. One thing I've noticed is coming back from hibernate even though WiFi is connected there's no internet. I have to disconnect and...

Haha, another true story. On another board, both the moderator team and most of the population were anti-windows 8/8.1. One guy was so full of it that he kept saying over and over that he dreams of the day when he could install windows 7 on his tablets because windows 8 is so awful that...

Haha in my day job I get paid to be concerned about things that might happen years down the line.

Regarding the loud sound, I'm actually old school. There are 2 types of types: those who like it loud and those who like it quiet.

I just bought a surface pro 3. I got it mainly to replace my almost decade old laptop as a primary work device. I write programs and mobile applications with that laptop, and that's what I intend to do with the sp3. As soon as I got it, I immediately started typing away. What I don't get is...

I wonder as I'm typing on my new sp3... when it gets to the point where the friction hinges are worn, can we get replacements for them? Anyone have any idea? I'm a structural engineer who used to work as an electronic repair tech. I have to worry about these things.

I just wanted a general one.

True story. Back when I was a repair tech, you have no idea how many times I heard people say' windows' when they meant office, outlook, TurboTax, or any of a dozen other software. One time a guy totally screwed up his machine and he wanted me to reinstall everything. So I did. He called me up...

What free software can I get to test out my new i5 sp3? I will be using this mostly for work and communication. No games. So I don't care about gpu.

I can't wait for graphene to be widely used in electronics. It's waterproof and has the strength of diamonds.

There are many different kinds. But generally, they turn to a certain color and can't be turned back after contact with certain level of moisture. These are placed at strategic places through out the device. Unless you somehow get to all of these indicators inside the device, you won't be able...

FYI, there are moisture indicators everywhere in a device like this.

I'm thinking we can tighten a tiny bit the screws to get the friction to its full strength again. That or tightening the screws might make the sp3 explode.

I just added some javascript components to my app. Been working on this for a while. I tried to make it compatible with windows rt. However, I no longer have a windows rt device. And without testing it on rt, there's no way for me to know that it works at all until I start getting 1 star...

Am I glad I'm sticking with i5.

I know some of you bought an sp3 right away. Have your friction hinges become less frictiony at all? Mine is still on the way and I won't get it until tomorrow. Just wondering.

Agreed with this assessment. The motherboard is probably fried. I know it is tempting to try to turn it on right away to see if it's ok. It's human nature. But turning it on is the worst thing you can do. It would probably take a couple days in dry rice to get all the moisture out.

First of all, I'm very sorry to hear what happened. On a lighter note, I got a call from my mom at 3 in the morning a couple nights ago. My retired parents always leave the country and go to the tropics in November and come back in March to escape the winter here. Anyway, before she went this...