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I can see that's true, but it seemed people were talking about the primary display of the SP2. I thought more or less the Windows part wouldn't be that different, to the extent "official" updates have been used. Maybe that's not the case (owners installing 3rd party drivers, et. al.), but if...

Not sure how to answer your question. However, checking battery status (with: powercfg /batteryreport) shows essentially no change in "Full Charge Capacity" since April, hovering around 40900 to 41100 mWh in that span. I acquired the SP2 in Jan 2014, and its initial capacity was ~42000. IOW...

The firmware offer was received just today. However, it's kind of confusing. Some report problems with WiFi or with video drivers/performance after firmware installation, but other SP2 owners report no issues of the sort. What accounts for the differences? At least at a hardware/firmware...

No updates here today at all, and it's well past midnight into early June 11 already. Not unusual, it's been the case every month. I'd already installed the firmware fix for mSD/cold boot/sound driver/high CPU utilization bug. Since it seemed to reduce the CPU issues (not eliminated them...

Core Temp works well, and doesn't do anything scary (that I know of). I have it set up to display the CPU temp and CPU utilization on the task bar. I refer to these displays frequently since the SP2 has a bad habit of suddenly revving up and driving the temp to 70/C for no good reason. Core...

Bummer indeed. I wonder how hard they're looking for the properly spec'd machine. Can't believe that the 1.9GHz CPU would be scarce, after all the 4300u SP2 was introduced way back in December. Keep after them until they deliver the equivalent to what you returned. I realize not everyone has...

Maybe it depends on location, but the local MS Store has been very accommodating. A couple of days ago I stopped in there, one of the staff asked me how much I liked the SP2. I said I did and didn't like it re: firmware bugs, etc. Anyway, I could bring the SP2 in, they'd "tune it up", and if...

Wow! I haven't been reading in this forum for a while, had work to do, using SP2 a lot for it. Still had the high CPU startup problem, so a nice surprise to learn about the article "You experience high CPU activity ...". Installed the firmware, restarted--went through 4 cycles before normal...

It's an annoying problem that's bit me pretty often. Being a lousy typist probably has something to do with it. The TC2 is also a pretty cramped keyboard making it easier to hit unfortunate key combinations. Sometimes I can "unstick" it by using Fn+LeftShift or Alt or Ctrl. BTW it's a handy...

A while back I bought a 4-port Targus USB 3.0 hub. The hub is fairly small but connecting to the SP2 requires using a beefy USB 3.0 cable, not nearly as elegant as the plug-in-the-side solution. OTOH, 4 ports are better than 2. I haven't checked the port speeds, or the power drain. Notably...

According to /batteryreport my SP2 (in use since mid-January) has capacity of 40626 mWh. Interestingly, in the same report, capacity has varied in the last 7 days from low: 40,133 to high: 41,057 mWh. I guess that means we should take the capacity reported to be an estimate, not a precise...

It's true. Shopping for a new computer to replace a 7 year old laptop I noticed the top of the line models were over $1000, and none of those had the specs of the SP2 (8G ram, etc.). And then I'd forgotten that the laptop I bought in 2008 (and died in 2013) cost >$2000 at the time. So I have...

Just curious, but what is the "normal", or anticipated rate of decline of SP2 battery charge capacity? After 3 months of use ("Cycle Count" == 23), battery report shows battery capacity of 40,352 mWh, about 2000 mWh less vs. the original capacity. It's probably too soon to make projections...

Interaction among mSD card present in slot, audio driver, startup conditions and high CPU utilization have been reported since December 2013 if not earlier. SP2 CPU rates of >=25% have occurred quite variably, sometimes randomly, which makes it difficult to pin down what's going on. Like many...

Guess so. But then I'll have to worry about both the Apr 8 hardware/firmware update and the Mar 11 hardware update. Still don't know what last month's update will do, let alone the next one. Seems weird that installing updates has to be just like shooting craps.

I think lots of SP2 users report problems with sleep/hibernation. I've had similar-sounding issues, but not sure exactly the same as what you describe. I've changed the settings often enough it's hard to remember various combinations in effect at a particular point. I know you said you...

The CPU-on-waking+sound-driver+mSD bug is well-known--I've encountered it many times, in fact almost daily. My work-around for it is putting the SP2 in sleep state then waking it up. The CPU rate then settles down to 1% or so. Unfortunately, similar CPU behavior occurs randomly as well, which...

Actually, I haven't installed drivers (outside of updates) except for a few not provided by MS at all, e.g., an old Ricoh printer. The drivers per Device Manager are current, standard, MS supplied versions. So the "hardware update" is probably a driver, but it seems silly not to say what it...

So this "System Hardware" update mystifies SP2 owners, and some have experienced video driver problems after an update. But I guess it's hard to pin down exactly which update "did it". I haven't used multiple external monitors, Hulu, Netflix, flixter, etc. The driver bugs might exist on my...

Never heard the fans and haven't had problems with the display, maybe because I've used my SP2 hardly at all for graphics-intensive apps. However, I have often seen CPU utilization going wild, at >30%, and the device getting warm. It does occur at random times, often without any indication...