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I had a hardware issue where the keyboard port died within a week so I got an exchange at a Microsoft Store. In the first 2 months of launch, I had some issues where the device would automatically wake from sleep, not go to sleep, burn a ton of battery during sleep, and the display driver would...

If you open up Command Prompt, type "powercfg /batteryreport" (without the quotation marks): this will generate an html file in your user directory that will contain a lot of info about your battery and usage.

Ok, that's odd then. I presume that this continues even after a restart? If it does, I have no idea what's wrong. Have you done any tweaks? Are you running on battery saver mode or the power saving profile accidentally (in fact, is there a difference if you're on charger vs. battery?)?

If you only read this forum, you'd think that the Surface Pro 4 could only just barely get 4-5 hours of battery life. To convince both myself and you that I'm actually getting closer to 7+ hours, I decided to start intentionally using battery even if I could be plugged in while actively tracking...

Well, I just finished work (13 hour day, woo) and, at 11:13 pm after 6h13m of being on battery (5h13m if you don't count an hour of sleep), my battery is at 32% for a projected total battery life of 9 hours (or 7.7 hours excluding sleep). In that last two hours, I did some things that were a...

I am now pretty much exactly 5 hours into my random battery drain test: 50% battery left. I will note that about 1 hour of that was in sleep because I had to do some work away from my desk but, given what others have posted, that wouldn't matter much since, allegedly, sleep drains almost as much...

I'm asking because you might have background tasks running in the background taking up CPU cycles which would cause both stutter in videos as well as drain your battery. The fact that everything is apparently closed on your Surface heightens the need to check for things running in the...

When you play a video, what programs are using a lot of CPU according to Task Manager? Do you have any antivirus, antimalware, antispyware programs installed?

I don't see why you didn't just make a new page in your current account's notebook and then, when you were later online, made a new notebook and moved the page over later if it were so important. Yeah, I don't trust the Windows projected battery life remaining which is why I'm actually...

I don't really see the big problem with the lack of tablet-optimized apps. Maybe I don't have fat fingers or something? Like, MuseScore (MuseScore | Free music composition and notation software), a free "desktop" music notation program, scrolls with touch, so, if all you were doing was reading...

Do you have another device/computer that you can try streaming from?

I've found that ctrl+alt+del also wakes the screen up but I've only had to do that once, thus not sure if it will work all the time.

Sorry, I meant keyboard port died on the Surface unit itself.

What site are you streaming from and in what country?

Probably a hardware problem. My keyboard died after a week which prevented the keyboard from working. Get an exchange ideally at a Microsoft Store to make sure that you get a new unit rather than a refurb. Edit: Keyboard port on the Surface died after a week.

The fan will never come on unless you do video encoding or play a demanding video game. I just streamed a 10 min Youtube video, and the fan didn't come on.

Let me put it this way: there are people satisfied with the performance they have on their phones while other people aren't satisfied unless they have the bleeding edge. Whether you will be satisfied is purely a subjective question that revolves a lot around what you have experienced before...

The Core i5 on its own is great for most games. The 4 GB RAM should not be a limiting factor for any game that would run well on the integrated GPU. At this point, tablet-based full Windows PCs are still a very new field that's really developing. Usually, there's a point of diminishing returns...

There's basically no need to underclock an Intel CPU since it automatically underclocks anyway. If you really need to ensure that you get a full 8-10 hours, you can tweak the power profile to never let it go beyond the lowest normally available clockspeed (~0.6 GHz). I'd suggest that you go...

The problem seems to be your command of the English language. You get it correct in this quote where you say "... if you want to expand the Microsoft USB port, you MIGHT have to pay $150-170 for the Microsoft Expansion Port" [emphasis mine]. In your previous post, you say "Microsoft has really...