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So even the solid color antibacterial stickerboy products improve grip? Or do only the textured ones like carbon fiber improve grip?

I'm pretty sure all necessary partitions are created automatically by the win 8.1 installer. I've never done it on an SP3, but I have done clean installs on 2 UEFI laptops, and both did everything automatically.

Mitchellvii, I saw that on the i3 you would sometimes get the grey checkerboard while scrolling quickly through webpages. Did you think that was b/c the i3 wasn't capable of loading the pages quickly enough, or due to something unrelated to the i3? Does the i5 still do that? Are there any...

mitchellvii, any regrets about choosing the i3 vs the i5? I'm probably going to pick up an SP3 today or tomorrow. Have been planning on the i5/8GB/256 for the past week or so. All I do is web browsing, MS Office, and PDF annotation. I also use Citrix for remote desktop connection to my...

Ah, got it. Cool setup even so.

Cool, thanks for all the replies. Didn't even realize the magnet connectors could serve as a connectivity medium. Pretty cool.

Has anybody with an i3 used the Drawboard PDF program? I understand, in addition to annotating PDFs, you can organize PDFs with it. Say you have like 30 or 40 PDFs loaded into Drawboard and are annotating one of them. Would the i3 be sufficient for that? Or is large PDF annotation something...

How does the SP3 Type Cover actually communicate with the SP3? Is it via Bluetooth? The pen requires Bluetooth, correct? So even if the keyboard is not Bluetooth, people generally leave Bluetooth permanently enabled on an SP3, I assume?

Ctitanic, Can you run the test again using the new 64-bit version of Chrome (non-beta) that released this morning? What does it look like with Firefox?

I'll have to look into it more, but my plan would be to do a clean install and make sure I get everything working before I kill the recovery partition. If I somehow screw it up or can't get everything working, then I'll restore from recovery (assuming that's possible). Anyways, I don't even...

Interesting, thanks. So after you did your clean reset, you did not re-enable HyperV, and everything worked fine? Or when you use the word "reset," are you referring to the "factory reset" option on the Surface Pro, which would simply restore it to factory condition and presumably negate your...

Thanks for the feedback. But surely it comes with some bloatware. For instance, if I plan to use the desktop version of OneNote, then the App Store version is duplicative bloat, IMO. Also, if it's simple enough to do a fresh, clean install, then the recovery partition is nothing more than...

I learned yesterday, courtesy of this forum, that the SP3 has a "factory reset" option. But, being the geek that I am, I like to do a completely clean install of Windows on all of my new computers, and I generally like to delete the recovery partitions larding up the SSD. Has anybody done such...

Thanks to all for the replies!

When people mention factory reset, are they referring to formatting the ssd and reinstalling Windows from scratch? Or is there an actual factory reset option on the sp3?

I've been reading this forum for the past week or two and am pretty close to buying an i5/8GB SP3. Main uses would be PDF reading and annotating, and occasional note taking at meetings. Trying to go as paperless as possible. I would also use it as a laptop replacement when I travel (I...

Ok, I just checked the "hybrid sleep" section of Power Options in control panel, and hybrid sleep is set to "off." So I assume my Vaio Pro is using traditional sleep. Which brings me back to my original question... is MS greatly exaggerating its claims of the benefits of connected standby? The...

Is it possible to disable Connected Standby and just use traditional sleep? I do not have an SP3 (yet...), but my Vaio Pro 11 loses less than 0.1% per hour when it is in traditional sleep. For instance, I'll frequently put it to sleep around dinner time and will not wake it up until the next...

Don't know off the top of my head. I'll find out tomorrow and post back.

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I'm thinking about buying an SP3 as a laptop replacement and am reading various threads in this forum. A very helpful forum, overall, so many thanks to all who regularly contribute. On to my question. I understand that ctitanic is just quoting from Microsoft...