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The fan doesn't come on unless you need it. It won't come on for web browsing, most uses of Office, drawing programs, etc. It only turns on when you're seriously using the CPU and/or GPU, eg. rendering a movie, 3D modelling, playing a demanding game.

I will second a Core i5 as a good balance of power for your money and I will mention that I am one of the "lucky" ones with what seems to be a fully working SP4 at this point. This wasn't always the case: for basically the first 3 months of release, there were some serious issues, namely sleep...

I've found the Windows Facebook app to be horribly unreliable, prone to crashing, doesn't scale properly, and doesn't even reliably pop up notifications which is the only reason to have the app installed. I uninstalled it and just use the website now.

I use my SP4 Core i5 8 GB RAM 256 GB for scientific research, drawing, 3D modelling, and some limited coding which means that I mostly use Office 2013, Adobe Creative Suite 5, Origin Labs curve fitting software, PyMol protein 3D structure visualization software, OneNote, Blender, Autodesk...

Mine goes down somewhere in the range of 0.5-1% per hour of sleep. I haven't kept it in sleep for longer than ~12 hours, however, so not sure if it scales better as it spends more time in hibernate.

Battery life highly depends on usage. Reading an ebook? Easily 8 hours. Browsing the web? 6-8 hours mostly determined by how obnoxious the ads are on the pages you're viewing. Playing a game? I'd expect 1-3 hours because you're really pushing the system. Basically, the reason that battery life...

I don't seem to have that problem with Chrome which is what I've been using for about 2 months now, even when it's open (with AdBlock), but, then again, I mostly go to sites that are pretty simple without obnoxious ads or loads of scripts running so that might impact the behaviour of Chrome on...

Probably hardware issue. Exchange it.

If this is truly the case, it's probably a hardware issue because a functional SP4 lasts far longer than 3-4 hours.

It sounds like your CPU is being used at almost 100% that entire time which means that something is running in the background killing your battery life. You will want to monitor Task Manager to see what your CPU usage is at and which program is using it. I literally get 6-8 hours of screen-on...

SP4 screen is pretty bright. I'm usually okay with 25% brightness on battery which gets me somewhere between 6-8 hours.

Exchange it. Probably hardware issues.

Any forum is always geared toward negative posts because why would anyone post on the Internet about something working? I myself have posted about a lot of issues that I've had with both the SP2 and now the SP4 but what I'm here to post about is that, over the past month, as far as I can tell...

I keep a 64 GB card in all the time and don't experience many problems so it's probably safe to do so.

I got my SP4 Core i5 256 GB at launch from an online MS Store order and, after 1 week, my keyboard port died. I took it to an MS Store, and they replaced it after some troubleshooting to see if it really was a hardware issue. This was without any additional warranty. If you think you'll need...

Nice, I've been having this problem lately. What's interesting is that, if you hold down the power button, the screen will display your lock screen showing the bottom half of the screen but rendered in the top half, thus it seems that the rendering location is merely awry rather than not being...

The Surface Pro 4 has exactly the same hardware that you would find in a decent ultrabook and the screen is superior to most ultrabooks. Given the stylus and extra portability, I would argue that not only can the SP4 replace an ultrabook but it is superior to it in every way (I have no problems...

1. Scientific data analysis with mostly mathematical curve fitting software (Origin). 2. Photoshop, Illustrator, Word, Powerpoint, etc. for paper publication and presentations. 3. Layered video (VSDC Free Video Editor) and audio (Audacity) editing and rendering. 4. Note-taking (OneNote) for...

I do find it amusing that you berate the Surface 3's 128 GB SSD while still considering the iPad Pro which maxes out at 128 GB.... See the following link for some benchmarks of the iPad Pro compared to other tablets and ultrabooks including the Surface 3, SP3 Core i5, SP4 Core i5 & Surface Book...

On a flight, you might not have much room for a mouse so I would actually suggest sticking with classics, one of which that comes to mind is Duke Nukem 3D which would definitely tide someone over for 2.5+ hours. With a mouse and given that you're going to be offline during this time, a shooter...