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I disagree. MS is marketing this as being both a laptop and tablet whenever you need each respective device. They are saying it can do both functions well. And I feel out of the current crop of available Windows tablets MS is the best. The design, the construction, etc. It just looks and...

I've had my S3 since release and I've had a Samsung Galaxy Tab s 10.5 since release in June 2014. As a tablet, I feel the Samsung beats the S3 hands down. For one thing, there are many, many apps in the Play store that either aren't in the Windows store or a gimped in the Windows store. Some...

After using it for a few days it isn't the Android tablet killer I was hoping for. This device is still more of a laptop than it is a tablet. It's being marketed as both but (IMO) does neither particularly well. I was focused on the tablet functionality as I really wanted to replace my Galaxy...

It doesn't look that app has a sleep timer. It has an alarm clock that will wake you from sleep but it doesn't look like it has anything that puts the machine in standby after a specific period of time. That's what I really need.

EXACTLY! It felt great folded back yet still allowed me type sufficiently when needed. When folded back you couldn't tell it was a keyboard. With the Type Cover folded back on the S3, the keys are constantly being depressed as I move my hand around shifting the S3. If they had a Touch Cover...

I wish they would make a Touch Cover for the S3. I have one from my first gen RT Surface. However, it extends a bit on the sides and some of the bezel is exposed. I'd be worried about scratching it. The screen itself isn't exposed. I would REALLY like a Touch Cover though because the amount...

Jeff, Thanks. Fingers crossed that installing the display driver solved the issue. After being in standby for 45 minutes it only went down 1%. Device manager didn't show any issues with the display adapter but when I had it update the driver, it did install and now it says Intel HD instead...

Jeff, No joy. I went through every folder in the Drivers\System and installed the drivers (they should have already been installed I think). Rebooted each time it asked and still the battery drain is there. People with various brands of tablets have reported the same device(s) showing in the...

Jeff, Thanks for the info. This makes sense. I had already downloaded the drivers last week. I don't show anything missing in Device Manager or with the yellow warning icon. Which device should I try updating. I don't see anything related to Intel chipsets. I did run the firmware update...

Well, if you've seen my other thread people said Pro would work on the Surface 3 no problem because places like CDW are shipping it with Windows Pro. I installed Pro on my S3 and I'm having the exact same problems with the same unregistered devices. So, it is something with whatever...

MS says it's a tablet when you want it to be and a laptop when you need it to be. However, there's no true "sleep timer" that will close any video/music streaming apps. This is especially helpful when I'm watching shows on Netflix when I go to bed. Netflix queues up the next episode...

Well, I re-imaged with a fresh install of the 8.1 Enterprise ISO and same thing (didn't install any patches). I lost 20% in 34 minutes. This time the processor was utilizing the battery instead of the previous unidentified devices. I'm going to roll back to factory 8.1 Core and make sure I...

What's the difference between Consumer and Business version of Surface 3?

It runs. It just drains the battery (in my particular case) at the rate of 15% an hour in sleep mode. I'm using the official driver pack that MS just released so I'm wondering if it's a patch issue. After installing it, I had to download over 5GB of patches since it was a base 8.1 ISO I used...

I'm just relaying what MS told me. I think it should be more than capable of running Pro or Enterprise according to MS's specs for the OS. But I'm seeing a massive battery drain running Enterprise (15% an hour when in sleep). All I see on CDW is the Surface Pro 3 running Professional. I...

Consumer. My department doesn't have the info to contact business support (it's a big organization and we're a little part of it) so I couldn't chat with them.

I just got off a chat session with MS as a result of my battery drain issue after installing Enterprise (see my original thread). Long story short, they said the developers are currently testing the compatibility of the other OS on the Surface 3 to determine if there might be issues that would...

What's the best way to upload the sleepstudy file? Since it's HTML, it won't let me. Should I just change the extension? Also, MS is telling me (I'm on a chat with them) that the Surface 3 is currently only supposed to run the OS it ships with. Greeeeeat . . .

I formatted it on the Surface 3 and did exFAT. It's moot anyway. Having the card out for the last hour still saw a 15% drain on the battery.

Well that didn't solve anything. I lost 15% in the last hour. I'm going to have to either downgrade to 8.1 Core or re-install Enterprise and install updates in batches and monitor.