{"id":186,"date":"2015-04-01T02:03:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-04-26T02:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T09:11:02","slug":"surface-3-long-may-you-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/surface-3-long-may-you-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface 3: Long May You Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have my Surface Pro 3 and I recently picked up a couple of Surface Battery Covers<\/a>. Each one of these gives me a couple more hours of run time away from AC power. And while it\u2019s great to be able to do that it doesn\u2019t mean that I get to relax and forget about the battery life issue. It just means that I get to think about it in a different way.\u00a0 I have to charge up the Battery Covers and I have to think about when I will carry them around.<\/p>\n

One of the great things about the Surface and Surface 2 was the battery life. Hours and hours or worry free computing.\u00a0 And I\u2019ve often wished that my original Surface had a Pen and could run legacy applications.\u00a0 Surface 3 addresses all three of these concerns: run-time, full Windows with support for legacy applications, and the Pen.<\/p>\n

Weighty considerations
\n<\/strong>When I know that I\u2019m going to be working away from AC power I take my Surface Pro 3 and one or both of the Power covers.\u00a0 Now here\u2019s food for thought. The Surface 3 weighs just a little over 3 ounces more than the Power Cover. Could I take a Surface 3 instead of the Power Cover that I use do extend the run time of the Surface Pro 3?<\/p>\n

On days when I need very long run time I could carry both Surface 3 and Surface Pro 3 and use the Surface 3 for all but the most intensive applications and fire up the Surface Pro 3 when I need the processing power.<\/p>\n

Would I really carry both?\u00a0 Not all the time, and for those situations where I\u2019m primarily in consumption mode (reading music, doing research, writing documents) I\u2019m thinking that the Surface 3 will do the job.<\/p>\n

I use OneNote for a lot of my note taking and music related tasks. And for other applications I use OneDrive.\u00a0 Keeping files synchronized is easy.<\/p>\n

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