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Anything is possible, but I would lean to software problems. It just really seems like this is a device to be "managed," and I'm not sure how much longer I'm willing to put up with that. I mean I've been ONLY browsing basic websites on here for like 10 minutes, and I've lost 7% of battery...

It's an i5, yes. I did a reset on it yesterday and everything seems to be back to normal functioning, for now at least.

I don't know what the exact issue is, but it seems to me that the SP4 isn't always going into sleep mode when I close the type cover. I mean I can flat out tell because when I go to pick up the device after a couple hours of not touching it, it's still slightly warm on the back, as if it's...

I certainly understand the frustrations as I experience some myself, but in the end I guess you're either willing to put up with the frustrations for more functionality, or you bring it back and get something like an iPad Pro that will be less buggy, but also less functional. There's no...

Can't you just use your phone for notifications? I mean I understand there might be some applications that have notifications which don't come up on your phone, but if you're wanting to get notified of email, calendar events, things like that, can't your phone handle it?

I've really been going back and forth on multiple devices the past month or two and I've landed on getting the i7/256gb SP4. I really enjoy tablets but at the same time, there are scenarios in which I just want something that's capable of more. One of my big holdouts on the SP has always...

Yeah I hear you on that, different things are going to yield different results. I do tend to have pretty "routine" usage of my devices though, and I understand what it's capable of and what it's not. If it's possible to get ~9 hours out of this, then my particular usage would probably fall...

Hmmm, interesting. I had thought people were getting closer to ~7. I wouldn't mind making adjustments to things like that, and I'd definitely turn off the live tiles anyway. May have to pick one up.

Are people really getting a legitimate ~9 hours of battery life with the SP4? If so, I may have to seriously consider getting one. My main tasks with a SP4 would essentially be web browsing, watching some light videos, light office work, things like that. Is 9 hours really within reach? I...

Oh it was seeing my face, it would just constantly tell me that I wasn't connected to the internet and therefore I needed to sign in using an alternate way. So I guess since I have a Microsoft Account it's tied to that and in turn is in some way tied to internet access. It was a pretty...

Well I finally got back in (again, had to remove the Type Cover to see the "Sign In Options not greyed out) and I removed the facial recognition. I was able to sign in just fine after that, no issues with not being connected to a network. So there is definitely something going on there...

Hell I was just interested in using it to see how well it worked, not necessarily to even use that as the be-all-end-all way that I login. I'm hoping that it's corrected when I turn it off, I guess we'll see when I'm actually able to get in and change settings.

I don't know man, I don't use the fingerprint portion so I can't speak to that. I use the facial recognition. All I know is I literally cannot login to this device at all and it's really getting frustrating. I guess the first thing I do when I get home is I'm turning off the face login if...

Well I have an MS account on the device and I went into the settings to take my picture/setup the Windows Hello login....but should it matter? I mean if I were to guess I would probably say that it IS tied to my MS Account but in the event that I'm offline, the device should allow me to sign...

I'm having sign on problems. I setup this Windows Hello login and now when I turn on my SP4 again, nothing happens. I get to the login screen and I guess it's detecting me.....but I'm not logged into a network on it and it's like it is stopping me at that point and there is now absolutely...

While it's nice and all that it runs, the Windows 10 "Beta" version of Minecraft is (at this point at least) a horrible version of Minecraft to play on a PC. It's essentially just the Pocket Edition which is sooooooo underwhelming. Hell, it just recently got the Nether. Hard to play that...

Interesting, I thought I was just seeing things on the demo unit at Best Buy. I saw that happen in the 2 minutes I used it.

Well, it's more important in the sense that I fundamentally would just rather have a "full" computer than a tablet OS. Whether it's an "app" or a website, it doesn't really matter to me. I'm not someone who is looking to heavily use Photoshop on these things or anything like that; I would...

Well that is certainly encouraging; I was hoping it would be a substantial difference. Hmmm...tempting. It's not like an m3 SP4 w/ Type Cover is even that more expensive than an 128gb iPad Air 2 w/ case.

Thanks for the benchmarks, my frame of mind right now is that I have an iPad Air 2 as a tablet and while I would like to have something like a Surface Pro as a "regular" tablet, I'm just wondering if the performance is good enough for a full PC, coinciding with battery life good enough to use as...