Doing so helped them track the accuracy of the cursor as it traveled across the display. They enlisted the help of a robot to mark the Surface Pro 3’s display at 2-millimeter intervals, in a grid pattern. Microsoft engineer Stevie Bathiche and Chris Whitman, the Surface Pen Program Manager, worked tirelessly to reduce parallax until it wasn’t even noticeable anymore.

When we wrote and drew pictures with the pen, it felt effortless, like using an ink-based pen on a normal sheet of paper. While its Pentium and i3 options are not ideal for all of these tasks (Alder Lake Y should help considerably in this area for future Go models), they still allow the Go 3 to go unrivaled as far as productivity is concerned in its form factor - which is exactly what sets it apart from the competition. You can plug just about anything into it (external drive, network cable, dock, display, printer, camera, scanner, legacy equipment, etc.) and it can run essentially any software (virtual machines, development tools, CAD programs, image/video/audio editors, scientific tools, games, etc.). As I stated with the Surface Pro 8, the Go 3 can do just about anything that its hardware will allow it to do. The author doesn't even bother to properly address software in the article and just goes by the assumption that 'Windows = bad, iPadOS = good'. These Surface vs iPad articles are extremely low effort and riddled with errors (some examples: the author uses the i3-10100 as a sub in for the i3-10100Y, they don't mention that the Surface Go 3 has microSDXC, etc.). The author appears to know very little about Surface devices and probably just took a glance at the spec sheet (and not a very long one at that).Īgain, at the end of the day, the Surface Go 3 is a full x86 based Windows 11 device. That specification table… did anyone bother to proof the format/structure once it was published?

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