An hour ago, I gave Surface Pro 3 a final chance to prove it's worthiness (to me, which was what I cared the most as I was about comment US$1400 on this device). It failed me.
The final test is to check and see how good this device is as a portable sketch book, which is my orginal and ultimate purpose of getting a active stylus computer device. So I brought the Surface Pro 3 to outdoor at around 5:30 pm. I already expected the glossy screen could be an issue, and it was, but then I could kind of live with it, and with the brightness turned to the max, the device was pretty usable.
I had hard time trying to disable the screen orientation feature as I really wanted to use the device as a digital paper, and sometimes I would change SP3's orientation in order to sketch at certain angle. Eventually I gave up. But that's not the biggest problem.
The biggest problem is STILL the whole heat issue. After using it for 10 minutes, I found the surface right side of the screen boiling my palm up to a uncomfortable level. I had to stop.
To make sure that I was not biased, I tool my old school Asus EeeSlate outdoor and did exactly the same thing. After sketched for 15 minutes, the screen of EeeSlate still stays cold (as it SHOULD BE). Only the upper left side on the screen turned slightly warm.
With that, I finally decided that I had enough. So I used the Windows 8.1 "update and recovery" feature, and triggered the "Remove everything and re-install Windows" feature.
Bye bye Surface Pro 3.
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