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It already does that by default. The keyboard battery is always preferred for discharging. And if you read the graphs in the Anandtech review, while the default charger is strong enough to charge both at maximum rate, if you use a lower wattage charger then they'll also give priority to the...

If someone can give me some tips on how to backtrack carefully to the Standard NVMe drivers I can re-run the AS SSD and see if it has much lower numbers than I just saw... (Perhaps use Device Manager -> device properties -> driver -> Rollback?)

I just ran the AS SSD benchmark as well. Unfortunately, while I had downloaded it before, I never ran it until today with the latest 10586 build and Samsung NVMe drivers (I suppose I can try to remove the Samsung NVMe drivers and try again, but I'll need to research how to do that without...

Ah, I see that the numbers they saw improvements on were on the AS SSD test that I haven't been running. Perhaps that test was broken by something in the Standard NVMe drivers that didn't really affect the CrystalDiskMark benchmark. I would characterize my results in CDM as a "small boost"...

I saw that, but it is an NVMe driver and it installs just fine on the SB. The drivers before it installs are listed as "Standard NVMe controller" and after they are listed as "Samsung NVMe controller". I think they say that to distinguish it from other retail models that a customer might have...

I tried installing those Samsung NVMe drivers (confirmed in Device Manager) and my numbers in CrystalDiskMark were less than 10% better than their best previous run (and some numbers were off from their previous best). How significantly did their results improve and on what benchmark?

Ah, I think I found the link: Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (Core m3) Tablet Review And here is the full quote: And here is the Samsung download link they refer to in the article: Samsung SSD Downloads | Samsung SSD I'm going to install the drivers and see what results I get...

I saw the notification of that post via email and came on here to find a link to the article, but sadly none was posted. I rechecked the NBR review of the Surface Book, but there was no update listed there and the quoted sections appear to be reviewing the drives under another article since it...

The progress bar on Windows Update hasn't worked in a few major releases (since as far back as some build of Windows 7). It tends to just sit at 0% and then suddenly be done. If the updates are large then it sits at 0% for an alarming amount of time. Sometimes with a single update it will...

Have you checked its selection in the nVidia Control Panel? Perhaps the preference in the CP overrides the "launch with" option in the context menu?

Great idea - I added a poll. I included all sizes as well as Samsung/Toshiba in case there is a breakdown based on size vs manufacturer. I should probably add something about purchase date, but that would make the poll too unwieldy. Perhaps people could add their purchase date in a reply if...

When I looked at the 2 boxes they had the same model number on them, but one was a dark grey and the other was white. I think the white ones listed SB as compatible. At the time I doubted that they were different models since a miniDP is a miniDP, but now that I saw your post I wonder if the...

My BB had two different versions of the dongles. Some said support for up through SP3 and newer ones listed the SB. Does your box actually mention the SB as one of the supported models?

The recent Anandtech review dinged the SB for shipping recent models with a Samsung SSD based on the PM951 - both for the fact that it is a TLC device, but also for poor performance compared to similar SB models that have a Toshiba SSD. They had one of each to compare in their tests and the...

I would suspect that it has more to do with power requirements. The power adapter puts out a decent amount of power to charge both and while the base battery puts out enough to run the system on, it would have to put out more to be able to charge. On the other hand, doing so while off or...

Mine is attached to the dGPU at the moment and it just says "Surface Book" so I don't think you'll get more detail than that...

To be clear, if you plug in the keyboard and the clipboard is attached then the clipboard will get charged. It doesn't appear that the keyboard can charge the clipboard from its own internal battery, though. The clipboard has the same charge/data port as the keyboard so that the power and dock...

The serial number of the clipboard is in Settings->System->About, but not for the keyboard section. Physically, the serial numbers are on the connect edge of the clipboard and on the bottom of the keyboard near the hinge. As far as a CD-key, I think MS is moving away from that for pre-installs...

I'm able to get a solid >60 FPS out of the dGPU in Diablo 3 (not vsync'd by default) at whatever resolution was closest to 1500x1000 and all settings on High. At one point it failed to launch with the dGPU and I was only getting 40 FPS and wondering what was happening until I realized that my...

There are times when I am mainly using the SB as a clipboard and the keyboard is in my bag fully charged. If the clipboard gets low on juice and I have a break in my work flow I'd love to be able to just dock it back on the keyboard and put it to sleep and have it recharge without having to...