{"id":196,"date":"2014-05-20T02:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/?p=196"},"modified":"2015-04-26T02:15:01","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T09:15:01","slug":"surface-pro-3-is-this-the-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/surface-pro-3-is-this-the-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 3: Is this the One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s May 20th and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-ca\/products\/surface-pro-3\" target=\"_blank\">big news is the Surface 3<\/a>. Bigger, lighter, faster, longer battery life, better ergonomics (multiple position stand). Of course, I want one. And I scoured the Microsoft Store for the Order Now button.<\/p>\n<p>And now, front and centre, finally, the pen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-ca\/products\/surface-pro-3\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/7317.image_235A280F.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"534\" height=\"322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Microsoft is embracing the Pen as the strategic advantage of the Surface Pro platform. I\u2019ve often thought that the Pen was misunderstood and under-sold as an alternative to the mouse. It is so much more than that. And this message is coming out loud and clear in the images of the new Surface Pro 3 at <a href=\"http:\/\/surface.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surface.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/4606.image_595EA71C.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/8741.image_thumb_50057299.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"242\" height=\"124\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/6710.image_3FF93493.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/8306.image_thumb_4CF314A4.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"234\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/6505.image_516C261C.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/1323.image_thumb_610EC1DE.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"244\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll no longer have to use make-shift devices to put the Surface at a great angle for writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/3276.image_7E83A39B.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.msmvps.com\/wnewquay\/files\/2014\/08\/6874.image_thumb_72181123.png\" alt=\"image\" width=\"547\" height=\"436\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m very excited about the 12\u201d Surface Pro 3 and this is a much easier decision for me, than to be trying to figure out how to fit a Surface Mini into my life.<\/p>\n<p>I need the full capabilities of a laptop in my portable life and having a little more screen real estate is going to be a big help. If you were to translate the new 3:2 aspect ratio (2160 x 1440) to the Surface Pro 2 (1920 x 1080)\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; at 3:2 this would be 1920 x <strong>1280<\/strong>. Now <em>that<\/em>\u00a0 is something to which I can relate because that extra height in landscape mode is something I can really use for documents and in development tools like Visual Studio.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the rest is all there too. Lighter, longer battery life, faster, ergonomics. As a potential desktop replacement, I\u2019m looking at the 256 GB Intel Core i7. The August 31st delivery date can\u2019t come soon enough for me. But I\u2019m willing to wait even though the i5 models look like they\u2019ll be available sooner in some markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s May 20th and the big news is the Surface 3. Bigger, lighter, faster, longer battery life, better ergonomics (multiple position stand). Of course, I want one. 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It looks like Microsoft is embracing the Pen as [&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-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}