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Nearing the Holy Grail of computing ? Now do Something about battery life!! I'm glad many people kept Complaining about the throttling issue and the other small gremlins, seems MS "is" listening.

Completely agree with this. MS has incredible Service and support on their devices.

This design would have much more lag on the I5 Version,when rotating this model. The processor still throttles down to about 1.8 GHz, however, the Gpu goes up from 599 to 780 + Usable, but would like for a more stable range above 2.3 GHz.

I too was having second thoughts about returning my sp3 (did return i5 version for I7) I but held out. One word of warning, if you keep the SP3 for longer than 21 days, you will be literally in love with all it Can do!! My biggest and current issue is the battery life because it is unusable for...

The previous scores were all in the 340-350 range. This is an I7 256/ 8GB ram model. The strange thing is they seemed to have tweaked OTHER setting rather than those in XTU. Also Note, I changed the battery profile to basically all performance using my custom setting. However, this was...

I just applied the new Firmware update from yesterday and did several Benchmarks on XTU. It's now posting the highest scores I've had without undervolting. 372 and 373. The processor would rarely go below 2GHZ and never lower than 1.6GhZ. Do anyone know of any specific changes MS made to...

I've noticed usb issues overall. When connecting a usb hub some items are constantly disconnecting.

Michael, to answer your original post Statement: You are 100% correct about your findings. If you do a brief search on the forum and internet in general, you will find this issue has been discussed to confirm that there is a major throttling issue with the SP3. There are two facts about the...

What brightness setting?

Tweaked a lot of settings and have been using the screen at a reduced brightness (40-45% ?). showing about 6-7 hours of battery time, so it is indeed possible to get much higher numbers. I have not used external drives or done ANY high processing work. Screen is set to turn of at 3 minutes...

Thanks, I read over the article and seems it addresses how to limit the upload speed but not really how to Suspend the updating to OneDrive all together. I will do some more research, as this seems to spike my system for some reason.

@ManchesterUnited. Are you able to see the screen for your presentations at 60% brightness or lower? I would hate using it at this level, as it's a big change for me coming from every other platform but I'm going to try it for today. I have found the info presented in this discussion VERY...

This sums it up perfectly. I was somewhat confused as to the purpose of the forum when I too got the overall impression that certain criticism/comparison was not welcomed here. This is almost universally ignoring the Total Apple campaign that MS is going after. The battery issue is the...

Overall, many people (myself included) will be disappointed with the battery life given how it was marketed as "All day battery life". 9 hours is FAR too aggressive a claim without severe changes to brightness and monitoring of other resources. ManUnited, most major reviewers will not be as...

There are claims all over the forum of 4-5 hours with SP3. This is reported on several sites as well. As many have said I'd you can operate with notifications turned off, brightness turned to 45% or less, and maybe other tweaks, you CAN get near those numbers. Obviously your use will...

I upgraded from the i5 Version to the I7 256 GB Version and bit locker was enabled by default. This may have happened when it pulled all of my existing settings after logging in.

I never had am issue about it. I was making the point that customers are actually going off of actual verbiage or released specs. When these are drastically different in real world usage it opens the door for the type of responses from customers and journalist that we are now seeing. Either...

got you.

not sure what you're talking about? I did say he goes on to describe the fan. However, some took his presentation to say that the device was fanless. I was just puzzled as to why he put that out there? Here is more of the quote: " I can go through all 100 custom parts it took to do that. I...

Are you using a power Cover with the sp3? If so, what increases in buttery times are you seeing?