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"Vibrant" generally means oversaturated. It looks cool because the colours really pop but they aren't accurate.

That's pretty much the only reason that I was slightly doubting whether it would run well: he's running pretty high bitrate movie files which I'm not sure how well VLC handles. Similar to what you've said, it will probably just boil down to how efficiently VLC and its codecs process the large...

Intuitively, I would say that it could probably do it since the Intel HD 520 can easily play 1080p videos and can render 1080p 3D graphics (albeit at low detail settings). I'm also pretty sure that people play Blu-ray 1080p movies/rips (which I'm going to assume is what you're doing) on Intel...

Yes to both. It's supposed to go to sleep automatically anyway after 10 minutes and then hibernate after 2 hours. The bug that's been around since at least the Surface Pro 2 is that it will automatically wake up and then never go back to sleep, thus running down the battery. Since that last...

Edge works just fine on both my SP4 and desktop and is my primary browser. What are you trying to do with the toolbar? And clicking links doesn't work? Does it fail to work with touch, stylus, mouse, or all 3?

Well, looks like the good running times may have come to an end (and, to be fair, it has been running quite well over the past 2 months): put my SP4 to sleep last night at 86% battery and it completely drained over night OR the battery indicator is messed up even after restarting my SP4. Even...

Dude, do a system refresh (which is definitely a posted solution) or get a warranty replacement and bring peace to your life.

Damn, man, this sounds like quite an extended ordeal. The SP4 is one of the few tech devices that I've both heard and experienced first hand and had others that I personally know have hardware issues. Then you have to add all of the software issues that, fortunately, have been mostly taken care...

Windows 10 does a whole bunch of system optimizations in the first couple of days so I wouldn't be worried yet. Give it a week of the device being on and see if it gets better during that time.

From what I've seen, it's probably a hardware issue with some but not all SP4 displays. In your case, you're only seeing it with auto brightness because, when you're in a dark room, it's attempting to use the lowest brightness setting which is where the flickering tends to occur. My brother has...

Microsoft strikes again. I wanted to use my SP4 to take notes during a meeting today but the Windows Modules Installer (or similarly named process) was burning through CPU while on power and after I disconnected it for the meeting so I thought that perhaps it was bugged out. I tried restarting...

Most games do not actually support 3:2 screen resolutions. It is likely that, even if you can actually select the 2736x1824 resolution of the SP4, it will only render a 16:9 or 16:10 image. This is especially true for Halcyon 6 which is a 2D game where image assets have a set resolution and...

Yeah, features are only good if they make your life easier. Waiting for it to scan your face where it will sometimes fail is slower than just typing in your PIN or password. Never used it and don't plan on doing so.

Given the myriad of problems (and potential new problems as Microsoft breaks things with updates), I can't recommend the SP4 unless you really need full Windows in a portable form factor, in which case, the SP4 and maybe the Lenovo Miix 700 would fit that usage. For a media consumption device...

Yeah, social media is the way to go these days to circumvent the outdated and non-responsive support routes of the past. There's actually some incentive for a company to prevent horror stories from regularly appearing on their official and public media pages. I had a hardware problem with my...

Any idea how that UEFI setting got toggled?

I don't trust anything from Microsoft anymore having owned both a Surface Pro 2 and now the SP4 so I can't recommend it. If you are still thinking about getting a Surface, I would wait as mva5580 said for possible news of a Surface Pro 5.

So you're both saying that people should not be upset when the SP4 doesn't work properly because they should have known better than to buy a "leading edge of technology" product that's on its 4th iteration? That they shouldn't be upset when the dock that was advertised as a way to use their SP4...

I'm not sure what CS is but not hibernate.

After the latest Windows 10 major updates, I've found my SP4 working as I'd expect it should. I even tested putting it to sleep and then removing the power cord. It still wakes up immediately after pulling the plug but seems to go back to and stays asleep during my commute home. The only issue...