After many late nights up testing the Surface 3 and putting it through its review paces, the Surface 3 Review is now up. Overall the Atom Cherry Trail is a good chip, it’s not really much faster CPU wise than the older Bay Trail Z3775 and Z3795, however graphically it’s much better. I’m enjoying my time with the Surface 3, it’s a great little tablet, but it’s expensive. I’m at odds if I should keep it or send it back. 719 euros here in Europe for an Atom based tablet seems crazy after some of the Core M’s I’m reviewing cost almost half this price. Of course you get Microsoft support and quality in the Surface 3, but at a premium.
However it does meet my personal requirements for a tablet, sometime that can handle work, portable, light, has a great keyboard, can run my monitor at 2560 x 1440 (Something the Bay Trails can’t do). I already have a powerful desktop PC, I just need something else for light work and the mentioned above. No point I feel in having super tower pc heat and noise next to me when I’m simply just the internet. The design is great and so easy with the kick stand, I think all tablets over 500 grams should have kickstands.
My time using the Surface 3 I have to say that it doesn’t feel like an Atom most of the time, at least with 4GB it’s fine with plenty of tabs open in Chrome and some multitasking, but when pushed hard it does slow up remind you it’s a little 14nm Atom SoC after all in there.
You can read the Surface 3 review here.
I’m still working on my Remix, Onda Core M and iwork 8 reviews. They will be up as soon as possible, but I like to use them for a good while to get a feel of the tablet and find all of it’s pros and cons.