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Thanks, everyone! How's the performance of the Sandisk and Lexar 256GB cards? Do they seem as fast as the internal SSD drives? Or maybe I'm the only one who's noticing poor performance from external USB drives? jesse

I'm using a 128 GB MicroSD card in my Surface Pro 4 and it seems to work plenty fast for the applications I use it with, but I have almost 800 GBs of iTunes media that's stored on an external 2TB USB drive, and using iTunes with the external drive can be a real drag. For some reason with the...

And sorry, I see that I've posted this in the wrong forum. I meant to post this in the general Surface forum!

Hi, folks. I have the SP4 i7 16 GB model and the new Microsoft Dock. I have a Cable Matters MiniDP adapter that allows me to connect an old VGA monitor to my SP4. As soon as I connect the adapter and cable directly to the DP port on the SP4 it works fine, the way it's supposed to. But when I...

Thanks, please let me know!

Thanks very much for the reply. Gee, I'd hate to have to get a new machine and set it up all over again. Maybe I'll take it by the Microsoft store tonight and see what they say. Jesse

My two week old SP4 has given me some strange, small issues but for the most part it's been pretty solid until last night. While watching a video the machine just locked up. It made a horrible noise like the audio was stuck playing one particular digital 'slice' over and over and I couldn't do...

For those of you using high-resolution external monitors with your Surface Pro 4s, which monitor would you recommend that gives you no technical trouble and which maintains the high native resolution of the SP4? I'm looking for a single monitor to be able to use Photoshop and Premier Pro as...

Some of you may remember I had a big 15" Dell notebook and an Apple iPad I wanted to replace with just one unit. I bought the Surface Book which I loved but as a full-time business laptop I realized the screen and the keyboard were both too small for me (just my own personal preference) and...

I've got the M3 SP4 and I'm loving it but I'm considering using it as my ONLY computer instead of just a tablet and occasional computer. I signed up for the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite - I mostly do business application development (Lotus Notes and Microsoft SharePoint), project management and...

Thanks, everyone for all the answers. It is definitely a Surface Pro 3, the entry level model now on sale for $599.99 at Best Buy. Perhaps it's the i3 processor and not the m3? I'm trying to get to Settings to get the details but here's a new issue: I hit the Windows key on the keyboard and...

I bought a new Surface Pro 3 M3 last week and although I do love it and would love to hang on to it I'm having so many technical issues I'm wondering if I should return it or exchange it, or if it sounds as though these issues might be addressed in a future software update. First, the machine...

Thanks again, Kevin. Yes, I've seen that view of the Surface app in other posts but my app doesn't look like that. I think I've got the latest version of Surface from the App store and this is what that page looks like for me. Have I got the wrong version? Or are you using the older app...

Thanks, Kevin, but I have the new Surface Pen and the new Surface App and I can't find in the Surface App where I can customize the pen buttons. I tried searching for those two entries in this forum and your post comes up - am I supposed to do that search somewhere else?

I took the Surface Book back and I bought the entry level Surface Pro 3 which is a fine work and fun tablet and a lot cheaper than my iPad, but I really miss that amazing, bright, crisp screen on the SB. When I'm reading or watching a video on the SP3 with the tablet close to my face it just...

To be honest I took it back. It was giving me lots of problems - my last day with it, it crashed hard and it took me a long time to get it to boot up again. I'm sure I had a lemon - I guess I could've exchanged it for a new one but the bigger issue is I realized I need a 15" laptop - I just...

I have the Surface Book and when it's sitting right next to my daughter's Surface Pro 3 with both devices at their max brightness, I notice the Pro 3 is much less bright than the Surface Book. Her device is now more than a year old - could it be the display itself or just the age? Has anyone...

I purchased the Microsoft Dock after I experienced failure trying to copy relatively large amounts of data from one USB drive to another while connected directly to the Surface Book's USB ports. Unfortunately I'm having the same exact problem with the drives connected to the dock and I'm not...

If this problem occurs because I'm working with non-powered USB drives will it also occur if I attach the same drives to the new Microsoft dock?

Yes, the My Passport Ultras are not powered, but they work fine with my Dell Latitude laptop. I have a powered USB hub so I can try a large data transfer through that. I think I'm going to pickup a new dock and try the copy through that to see if it makes an difference. And thanks for all the...