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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by jmann99999 on Friday April 07, 2017 @12:36PM (#14061193)
Love it. Visual Studio runs great on it and it is portable enough to bring it with you everywhere. Because of that, it makes for great note taking, as well. The only downside I have found is RDP. The Surface Pro 4 is at such a high resolution that the remote screen is TINY. There are some kludgy work-arounds... but if you are over 30, you'll be holding the machine about two inches from your face when RDP-ing. If RDP isn't a big part of your day, it's otherwise great.
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by xeonoex on Friday April 07, 2017 @03:51PM (#14062997)
I use Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.7 to RDP in from home on a 4k monitor to work servers running Windows 2008 and 2012 and the DPI scales correctly. Have you tried following these steps?

https://superuser.com/questions/891413/remote-connection-des...

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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by shaklee3 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:04PM (#14061443)
Doesn't RDP just scale to the resolution of your machine? I have a monitor at home @2560p and when I remote to my desktop at work @1080p it scales up to 2560p. Maybe the remote machine can't drive that?
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by dhbx9 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:24PM (#14061620)
Do you mean 1440p? If not, what screen do you use?
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by dboreham on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:23PM (#14061612)
I forget exactly how (may have involved the rubber chicken..) but the tiny remote desktop problem can be fixed. Fixed it on my SP3 a while back.
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Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake... by jmann99999 on Friday April 07, 2017 @01:37PM (#14061756)
One of the "kludgy solutions" to the DPI problem is to change settings on the server to scale (if I remember correctly). The problem is that if you login from another machine (say a mac) then it is almost unusable.

That said, I would even take the rubber chicken solution :-). Thankfully I don't need to log in often on my Surface pro but when I do it is a pain. So, if anyone has suggestions, that would be great.

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