{"id":178,"date":"2015-03-31T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-04-26T02:01:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T09:01:42","slug":"surface-3-coming-may-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/surface-3-coming-may-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface 3: Coming May 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced today, the Surface 3 and I\u2019m excited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.surface.com\/2015\/03\/announcing-surface-3\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2015\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"244\" height=\"132\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the picture to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.surface.com\/2015\/03\/announcing-surface-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">read the announcement<\/a> on the Surface Blog.<\/p>\n<p>My first inclination was:\u00a0 I don\u2019t need this &#8211; I have the Surface Pro 3 with Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i7.\u00a0 But as I thought about it, there is something very appealing about a smaller, lighter, long-running device that can run full Windows AND use the Pen. The Pen is for me the killer-application of this type of device. I know it\u2019s not an application but the Pen is the reason that I will take a Surface Pro (any model) over other portable computing devices. And for me, the Pen is the make\/break aspect of the Surface 3. And thank you Microsoft for making it the same Pen as the one I use with my Surface Pro 3.<\/p>\n<p>I have some very specific applications\u00a0 where size, weight, and battery life are bigger priorities than the raw processing power or storage I have with my Surface Pro 3.\u00a0 So I\u2019m really looking forward to using the Surface 3.<\/p>\n<p>This looks like it will be a great device for students and for people who are looking for a long lasting productivity device that can run legacy applications (full Windows 8.1-10 and legacy applications). I was concerned about the Atom processor but this is the Quad-core Intel\u00ae Atom\u2122 x7 processor that is supposed to deliver 80% of the processing power of the Core\u00a0 i3 found in the entry level Surface Pro 3. This should be plenty of power for a lot of what I do:\u00a0 working in Office, writing, browsing the web, using the Pen for Mind Maps, mark-up and drawings.<\/p>\n<p>Check back in over the next few days as I\u2019m thinking out loud about the Surface 3.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime check out these special offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/free-trial\/?xd=310394&amp;CR_CC=200606405\" target=\"_blank\">Azure Free Trial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200606453\" target=\"_blank\">MSDN Azure benefit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200617764\" target=\"_blank\">CANITPRO at the Movies (English)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/click\/services\/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200617798\" target=\"_blank\">CANITPRO at the Movies (French)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just announced today, the Surface 3 and I\u2019m excited. Click the picture to read the announcement on the Surface Blog. My first inclination was:\u00a0 I don\u2019t need this &#8211; I have the Surface Pro 3 with Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i7.\u00a0 But as I thought about it, there is something very appealing about a smaller, lighter, long-running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}