On 4/1/2015 12:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hello all, > > Has anyone been running Finale for Windows on the Surface Pro 3 tablet, and > if so… how's that been going for you? > > Also, any prognostication on how Fin2014 would perform on the just-announced > Surface 3 (non-pro)? >
I haven't done a lot with it on my SurfacePro3 (i5 processor, 128GB storage) but I've used Fin2014 some. It works just fine. I've used Sibelius7.1 on it a lot more and except for the small fonts for the menu/ribbon items it's a terrific portable replacement for my main computer. Be forewarned however that there is only 1 USB port, so in order to take advantage of multiple input devices such as a midi keyboard and a USB numpad (I haven't found a decent bluetooth keyboard which has a numpad on it, and bluetooth numpads are very expensive) you need a small USB hub. And the USB port on the SurfacePro3 is underpowered (to save battery life) so running external hard drives needs a powered USB hub unless you have a hard drive which has its own battery power. Everything I've read leads me to think the new version *might* run Finale just as well as the Pro version but also it might not. The Atom chip is a single-core processor so Finale might get interrupted when the cpu handles other functions such as polling the ports or if you're running a browser in the background. I love the screen size and am using the program MusicReader as my electronic music stand, in addition to using the SurfacePro as my travel computer. It runs Office just fine, it runs WordPerfect just fine, it runs Band-in-a-Box just fine. My suggestion is to bite the bullet and buy the Pro version -- I just read a review of the new Surface which compared it to a netbook only better and suggests it might be better than the full-fledged notebooks in the same price range. But I would never try to run high-powered programs like Finale or Sibelius on a netbook nor would I buy a $400 laptop for it either. But that's just my opinions and experience -- others may differ. -- David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
