The Surface Pro 3 is the third-generation Surface-series 2-in-1 detachable, designed, developed, marketed, and produced by Microsoft. It originally ran the Windows 8.1 Pro operating system (OS), but the optional upgrade to Windows 10 Pro (OS) operating system was later added.

The Microsoft Surface 3 features a 10.8-inch display with 1920x1280. It is powered by a 1.6-GHz quad-core Intel Atom processor, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of onboard storage, which can be expanded by a microSD card. The camera is an 8-megapixel unit and there is also a 3.5-megapixel one on the front.

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Work, stream, and play - Surface Pro 9 has the flexibility of a tablet with the performance of a laptop - all in one. Work, stream, and play - Surface Pro 9 has the flexibility of a tablet with the performance of a laptop - all in one.

The Bottom Line. The Surface 3 offers a welcome price break from the pricey Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and it's well built, offers a full version of Windows, and boasts impressive battery life. But in a crowded field, a solid tablet that relies heavily on expensive accessories falls short of top marks.

As a laptop, the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 works well, with a sturdier keyboard cover, but it's still not as comfortable to use in your lap as a traditional clamshell laptop, and you still have to purchase the keyboard cover separately, adding $130 to the overall price of the system.

The Bottom Line The Surface 3 offers a welcome price break from the pricey Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and it's well built, offers a full version of Windows, and boasts impressive battery life. But in a crowded field, a solid tablet that relies heavily on expensive accessories falls short of top marks.

Surface 3

And so it tends to write and tends to feel a lot better when you're writing. This one here is a Fujitsu pen that came out with the Q 702 just before the surface pro 3 arrived.

Office Tasks, Multitasking, and Browsing In that sense, a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet can definitely replace a laptop computer. The Surface Pro will have no trouble meeting your needs if you have 2 or 10 tabs open in your browser. The same goes for desktop software like Office.

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3. So that's a feature that works across Windows 8 but it's a really really good feature. Makes it really easy to switch between devices.