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Re:Surface 3 Update by elevenfist on Sunday November 02, 2014 @01:43AM (#8545765)
As an artist, I still found the surface pro 3 heats up after using it for longer than 30 minutes, making drawing on the screen uncomfortable. I still have my surface pro 1, and it's usable with a glove, but I generally don't like drawing with gloves.

It's not a problem that I have with my Cintiq Companion Hybrid. I hope Microsoft fixes the heat issue at some point.

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Re:Surface 3 Update by iancarroll on Sunday November 02, 2014 @01:49AM (#8545779)
What battery setting do you use? My Pro 2 does not heat up very often.
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Re:Surface 3 Update by Htsthbjig on Sunday November 02, 2014 @05:55AM (#8546265)
This is the reason I hope Apple guys mac a pen tablet, they are the only ones that take heating seriously, even at the application level.

Microsoft has so much legacy code when the mantra was "it does not matter how inefficient the computer is if development is fast", or "people just can add bigger batteries to laptops and the problem is solved".

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Re:Surface 3 Update by slantyyz on Sunday November 02, 2014 @01:38PM (#8547514)
>> This is the reason I hope Apple guys mac a pen tablet, they are the only ones that take heating seriously, even at the application level.

While I agree with you on Apple coming out with a pen, I totally disagree with you on the heating thing. My 2011 Macbook Pro is pretty notorious for heating issues resulting in crashes and gpu problems. A class action lawsuit was finally launched this week over those issues.

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Re:Surface 3 Update by stinos on Sunday November 02, 2014 @01:09PM (#8547385)
they are the only ones that take heating seriously

You sure about that? Had a Macbook Pro (2008 or 2009, don't recall) and when doing serious work on it I could just bear it on my lap, but it ran hot enough that I was beginning to fear for my sperm count. And definitely hotter than the Dell Xps running Windows I got after it, for doing similar work. Dunno if Apple improved on that point now, but it doesn't seem (to me) they were always ahead of the rest or so.

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