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For me, the pen is far faster to use than a mouse. It takes a (short) while to get used to it, especially when grabbing and dragging scroll bars, but I very rarely ever use my mouse with my SP3 now.

I use a 128GB SDXC card in my SP3 and I've read that others use the Sandisk 200GB card with no problems.

If it's a USB3 hub, you should be able to solve the problem by substituting a USB2 hub or using a 5 GHz WiFi connection. This guy had the same problem and solved it:

Thanks for the suggestion but there are no MS Stores here in the UK. I did, though, take it into a PC World store and tried an SP4 keyboard, which didn't work. What I should have done, but didn't think of at the time, was do a two-fingered restart with the SP4 keyboard attached, and try my own...

It went out of warranty on August 2nd. Just over 2.5 months before the type cover stopped working. Anyway, I'm not 100% convinced it's the hardware. But I'm not that hopeful about it. I'll just have to change the way I use it. And tell my story any time anyone asks me "Should I buy a Surface Pro...

Oh, that's nothing. I also followed the advice of an MVP on Microsoft Answers who suggested several possible fixes, from reinstalling drivers to resetting the Surface, so I've now got a 12" tablet that's gone back to Windows 10 build 1511 with none of my installed software or documents. And I...

Folded back underneath the Surface, ever since the type cover stopped working some days ago. The type cover has metamorphosed into the most expensive screen protector ever... :-\

Lots of people are currently experiencing battery problems. See this thread at Microsoft Answers to get an idea of the scale of the problem...

Lots of us are having problems since the firmware update. Microsoft are aware of this but haven't said if a fix is in the works. Various news sites have picked up on the situation and reported it. Here's a thread in Microsoft Answers which will give you some idea of the scale of the problem...

I had this and followed this advice: Leave it plugged in for a couple of hours then do the 'two finger salute', as follows "To do this, press and hold the Volume-up button and the Power button on the your Surface at the same time for 15 seconds and then release both of them. The screen may...

As an update on this, it's now gone down to a miserable 2 hours, and yesterday it was less than that. Trying to get it to recalibrate quicker by running video on a loop to drain the battery but, of course, that seems to be making it drain slower :-/

Mine was also in the docking station when the update was downloaded, but I noticed it and restarted with the power cable. Fingers crossed that it all goes OK. I hope so. My battery is an LG so I shouldn't even need the firmware update. After it was installed, clicking the battery icon showed...

Did you try resetting it (Power+volume up for 15 seconds) while it's plugged into a power socket?

Mine was stuck on 23% for at least 20 minutes. I just let it complete and it updated OK. No such luck with the firmware update, though (SP3); it's failed several times now.

I don't use Excel 2013 but with every spreadsheet I've used, you tap the cell to highlight it then tap the text input field at the top. Then you can start writing with the pen.

Take a five minute break every hour, or a fifteen minute break every few hours. And go outside where you can see more than a few feet in front of you. Drink plenty of water. All the usual stuff for people sitting in one position and using LCD screens for long periods of time.

I've had something similar with my SP3, but I always use the Hibernate option on the Power submenu in the Start menu. And it's not the "Surface" screen; it gets past that and gets stuck on the blue screen with the rotating circles. If I hold down the power button until it closes down, then hold...

Opera disagrees: Why we challenge Microsoft’s battery test

I have the same problem with every new device I bring home. In my router's settings, I have MAC filtering set up to 'Deny all devices unless in the Wireless Filter List'. So I have to find out the device's WIFI MAC address and enter it into the list, then reset the router. Occasionally I also...

I suspect it might work for SP4 users. The video was made by SurfacePro3TechReviews.com so I just assumed it would work with the SP3. A mistake on my part. I apologise.