Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Microsoft Surface 3 hands-on”.
Hey this is Tom of the verge and we’re looking at Microsoft’s new surface free tablet. That’S a surface free, not the surface pro free. This is a ten point. Eight inch tablet, and so it’s gone up a little bit in in size from the previous version and it’s free by two aspect.
Ratio so is kind of turning this more into a tablet than the surface was big changes. You’Ve got a new hinge design on the back, which pops free way so one two and then three, it’s kind of not exactly the same as the surface pro free, but gives you a little bit. Flexibility under the hood is the the biggest change, and this isn’t Windows RT anymore, so there’s no ARM processor in here you’ve got an add-on processor, which does mean that you can run your traditional desktop app. So you know iTunes on here. You can have all the full office applications, Steinway v1, true Windows, rather than the Windows RT, which didn’t didn’t have all that support.
So it’s running on an accent. Processor, its quad, core processor and you’ve got a 10.8 English display, which is nineteen twenty by twelve. Eighty. So while there’s a Batson processor in here, the performance seems okay, but I’ll have to review it fully and to see how that goes.
It’S pretty much very similar to the surface. I mean it’s, it’s pretty much the same sort of thickness. They have changed a few things on the side here and you’ve got a micro, USB port now and that’s the power port. So now you more playing out of the magnetic connector or anything like that.
You can use your phone charger, and/or the supplied territory cetera, and you still got the full size USB and display port. So you can still connect up a monitor, still connect up flash drives or accessories and on the other side of the device is pretty clean and there’s nothing there. Apart from the kickstand, much less moved up the volume buttons at the top here, but overall, still kind of looking the same as the surface 2 and the rear. It’S got a new logos as the Microsoft logo rolling in surface and compared to the surface.
Pro 3 is obviously a lot smaller dimensions and it’s a little bit a little bit thinner. I guess we’ll put perhaps kind of the same, but obviously they look very similar because they’re both sitting still in black nation here, but you can see that the screens obviously very different. You look at 12 versus the tenth. This is a new surface type cover and pretty similar to the old one clicks in, but you got the new magnets that stick it together, like that, so it gives it a little bit more stability when you combine it with the kickstand.
So it’s not sort of just something around on your lap or anything new color options. This is the orange one and there’s gon na be red, blue and also, I think, a cyan version as well and at the same time they also added a pen for the surface free and now this isn’t. This doesn’t come with the surface free. This is separate accessory.
You can draw on just as you read on the surface pro free and you can get much much in colors, depending on what type cover you go for its overall you’re, getting a surface free, which is obviously cheaper than the surface pro free. So this one’s coming in at $ 4.99, without the cover and without the pen and sort of impressions, it’s a lot lighter than the surface pro free and the surface 2 before it and so you’re getting a cheaper like a machine. That’S are going to run all your apps instead of the windows RT, so that comes in at full 99 with the keyboard and the pen sold separately. .