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Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 4
I wasn't sure where to put this and since there was no SP4 thread… well here goes.
As a very satisfied SP3 owner, I was excited to see what the SP4 had. Frankly I was a bit underwhelmed, it’s a little faster but my SP3 is fast enough, a bit thinner but… So the exciting part came down to the keyboard. Which begs the question, will the new SP4 keyboards work on my SP3. I’m particularly interested in the fingerprint sensing one, can I buy a fingerprint reader keyboard for my SP3 and have biometric login? I’ve searched all the first impressions I find a number of places that say the SP3 keyboard cover will work on the SP4, but nowhere does it say the reverse. |
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Both the new SP4 keyboard cover and the new pen will work with the SP3
![]() Edit: from the MS UK store (pre-orders obviously) "The next generation of Type Cover, made for Surface Pro 4, offers the most advanced Surface typing experience yet. Compatible with Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4." "Experience the ultimate modern writing experience with Surface Pen.Includes Pen Tip Kit £10 value. Compatible with Surface 3, Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro 4." Last edited by Yolina; 10-07-2015 at 04:01 PM. |
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Yes . The new Type covers work with SP3 (and previous versions SP1 & 2 but the size is different)The Type Cover with the fingerprint reader only comes in Black. It's $150. It's there specifically for folks with SP3 who want biometric security with Windows Hello in Windows 10. SP4 has the Real Sense cameras for iris scanning. |
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I want one. Probably the i5, 256GB. Hopefully Costco will have a package deal on them.
Anyone using Office 365? How do you like it? |
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This is without a doubt the finest computer I have ever owned, and I've owned a few, beginning with an Atari 400 (hardware hacked to a whole 16 KB of RAM). And O365 has become the go to method of obtaining Office. At a hundred bucks a year for five full blown office subscriptions, which would cost several hundred each it'll take quite a few years to spend as much as discreet licenses. And that's not even taking into account the other benefits like a hosted Exchange server, SharePoint portal and One Drive. Years ago, I initially bought O365 for the hosted Exchange server alone. Then it was six dollars per month and the nearest competitor was charging a bit over ten, it wasn't till later that I began to realize all the other benefits. |
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We got my wife that one a couple months ago too. She absolutely loves it even though we haven't gotten the keyboard cover yet. I will probably get her the SP4 cover for her birthday since it sounds like an improvement over the original one (which she liked a lot already).
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Quite the deal IMHO. My kids were thrilled to finally have "real office" that they had begged for but never had. "OpenOffice is good enough and free)". With online Word/Excel - you can even have "real office" on your Linux boxes ![]() |
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BTW. Does anyone know if you can load and run programs from the Micro SD card?
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