![]() The touchpad on the new type cover is larger and significantly improved.The pen is a significant upgrade over the original Surface Pro stylus.No more fiddling with the finicky magnet! The redesigned power adapter is much easier to attach.As I write this, I’ve been going for over three hours and am at 60%. I’ve been able to go the entire day on a single charge. The pen really is impressively accurate and handwriting on the screen is as good an experience as it’s ever been.You won’t feel the heat at all if you’re just browsing or doing simple office tasks. Heat is not unbearable, but seems to be concentrated in the upper right corner (in landscape mode).The device runs silently most of the time, but 3d applications can force the fans into overdrive.While not the lightest tablet for its size, the SP3 no longer feels like a brick.The SP3 is about 30% thinner than the previous Surface Pros.The display resolution of 2160x1440 is crisp and beautiful.The 3:2 aspect ratio feels much less cramped in landscape mode and more natural to hold in portrait mode.The screen is bigger, but not so big to be less portable.I'm convinced that the drawing experience will be acceptable to most of you, but the most demanding among you may still want to wait until Microsoft publishes its pen control panel shortly after launch. this weekend and I still recommend that you try the pen out for yourself. In the meantime, if compatibility with your favorite Wintab application has been holding you back from ordering a new Surface Pro 3, that should soon be one less obstacle.ĭemo machines began arriving in Microsoft Stores and Best Buy outlets throughout the U.S. Once the Wintab driver is released publicly, I'll update the What Runs feature. Corel's Wintab-less versions should be available in July. I've also learned that Adobe's Photoshop CC update, which eliminates the need for Wintab, is scheduled to be released on June 18. The N-Trig developers tell me that they're noticing other more subtle issues in some software which they're attempting to address before the Surface Pro 3 is released June 20. Notable exceptions include the ever problematic Autodesk Mudbox, which still doesn't recognize the pen and Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw and CorelPhoto-Paint which all exhibit intermittent pen issues. Additionally, I tested the new drivers on the Sony Flip 15A and Acer Aspire R7-572 and both have yielded similarly positive results. ![]() Indeed, isolated issues remain to be sorted out, but I can now report that the vast majority of Wintab software that I've tested now recognizes pen pressure on the Surface Pro 3. However, N-Trig requested that I temper my enthusiasm while they conducted a bit more internal testing. The results were so dramatically positive, I wanted to publish them immediately. Unlike my initial tests, which required downloading and installing each application, it was very easy to test this new driver with the 100 GB of applications already stored on my Surface Pro 3's SSD. Within 24 hours of our initial contact, I was given exclusive access to a new driver test build. And the more recent version touted by Microsoft during its Reddit AMA session yielded similarly disappointing results.įollowing the publication of my Surface Pro 3 "What Runs, What Doesn't" feature detailing this woeful state of affairs, N-Trig engineers enlisted my aid in better understanding the issues confronting them. ![]() My biggest fear, borne out by testing of about 40 graphics applications, has been the limited compatibility of N-Trig's Wintab driver.Īs we quickly discovered when we first tested the driver on N-Trig equipped convertibles from Sony and Acer earlier this year, the manufacturer's Wintab software seemed to only support Photoshop. If you've read any of this blog's Surface Pro 3 coverage, you'll know that my greatest concern about the new tablet's pen technology has not been a lack of pressure levels or high initial activation force. ![]()
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