OFFICIAL I Now Have a Surface Pro 3 i7

[ynohtna]

What monitors are those? I take it they are DP chained?

2xDell U2413. Yes they are daisy chained. This thing has been on for two days, casual work stuff. I do run Hyper-V with an XP VM on it and running now. I mostly have web browsers and office stuff opened up.

Ambient temp currently 26degC or 78.8degF

Fan is on a slight hush sound right now

back of the tablet maxed out at 39.8degC or 103.6degF

 

[GTiceman]

2xDell U2413. Yes they are daisy chained. This thing has been on for two days, casual work stuff. I do run Hyper-V with an XP VM on it and running now. I mostly have web browsers and office stuff opened up.

Ambient temp currently 26degC or 78.8degF

Fan is on a slight hush sound right now

back of the tablet maxed out at 39.8degC or 103.6degF

Nice, i picked up a U2412M for real cheap so I am looking at another monitor at least 1920x1200. I used to have a U3012 at my old job and miss it every day. So I take it you have connected standby turned off? I had to return my i7, giving the i5 a try to see how well it does with ym simple day to day. I mainly write contracts, I'm an attorney, but I also need something to encode my goPro video and had some issues with the i7 initially.

 

[ynohtna]

I didn't specifically turn off Connected Stand by but I assume it's off from what I read about enabling HyperV.
Historically, I use my laptop as desktop replacements really. Portege m200, Lenovo x200t, Lenovo Helix, MS SP3 now. They just sit there most of the time except for work travel.

I know the Helix used intel connected standby software but I never bothered with it and uninstalled. For me that's what my phone is for (Lumia 920/ now 930) to keep me connected

 

[Ideago]

Got mine about a week ago, the 256. It is really an amazing machine and also my first experience with windows 8.1, really liking it! No wi-fi issues, but battery life is only about 3 hours. Hoping for a fix!

 

[mtalinm]

well I went to the msft store and they said some of my updates had "faulty installations" whatever that means (and they didn't know why). they resinstalled a bunch of updates by hand, not using windows update, and now both the dock and power cover work properly.

jury still out on crazy spinning fan & intermittent slowdowns, but I'm optimistic.

 

[Jeffrey Walsh]

Received my Surface Pro 3 yesterday and was very excited as this was going to be the latest support tool provided to my Service Employees and Customers. Problems right out of the box. I do consider myself computer literate but ended up spending 2 hours yesterday on the phone with Microsoft Support and getting transferred to 4 different departments. I finally gave up and decided to start fresh this morning. Another futile attempt with MS Customer Service. In 45 minutes I was transferred through another 4 departments, 2 of which could not help me yesterday but was transferred there even though I said I had already spoken to them. Multiple requests to speak with a Supervisor were completely ignored. With the most common reply being I will transfer you and you can request a Supervisor then. I am done. Everything is going back in the box and being returned to the Microsoft store this morning. Some of the worst Customer Service I have ever experienced.

 

[FlySwatter]

So, you created an account for the sole purpose of complaining about Microsoft's support of your completely undescribed problem?

 

[malberttoo]

Received my Surface Pro 3 yesterday and was very excited as this was going to be the latest support tool provided to my Service Employees and Customers. Problems right out of the box. I do consider myself computer literate but ended up spending 2 hours yesterday on the phone with Microsoft Support and getting transferred to 4 different departments. I finally gave up and decided to start fresh this morning. Another futile attempt with MS Customer Service. In 45 minutes I was transferred through another 4 departments, 2 of which could not help me yesterday but was transferred there even though I said I had already spoken to them. Multiple requests to speak with a Supervisor were completely ignored. With the most common reply being I will transfer you and you can request a Supervisor then. I am done. Everything is going back in the box and being returned to the Microsoft store this morning. Some of the worst Customer Service I have ever experienced.

Hi Jeffrey, welcome. Sorry to hear about your bad experience, that's awful.

What were the issues you were having with the unit?

 

[mtalinm]

Well my battery drain problems are gone after reinstalling the updates by hand. In my bag for 24 hours and lost only 12%

 

[bangsters]

gave my SP1 to my inlaw, then got me the i7 512 and the wife i5 256.

Can't complain. I love it. Wife loves it. Inlaw loves the SP1.

Win for MS on a very well built machine.

Now only issue is my external monitor is 2560x1080, and the 1440 version is like out of reach lol....

 

[darkyduck]

@bangsters: What is your view on the (performance) differences between the i5 and i7? I'm still considering both options but I find it hard to justify the extra costs for the i7 model based on my research so far.
I'm interested in the i7 because I work with pretty heavy SQL Server databases and big Excel (powerpivot) solutions.

Kind regards...

 

[malberttoo]

@bangsters: What is your view on the (performance) differences between the i5 and i7? I'm still considering both options but I find it hard to justify the extra costs for the i7 model based on my research so far.
I'm interested in the i7 because I work with pretty heavy SQL Server databases and big Excel (powerpivot) solutions.

Kind regards...

Welcome to the forum darkyduck!