Keep in mind the Surface 3 is actually a much newer machine than the Surface 3 Pro — the Surface 3 Pro was released over a year ago, while the Surface 3 came out in May of this year. While the Pro machine has more raw power, the Surface 3 has the benefit of an additional year's worth of R&D, which is a lifetime when it comes to these devices.
Also keep in mind that the Surface 4 Pro is expected in August. Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Craig Parmerlee <[email protected]> wrote: > I went through this evaluation myself and ended up in a completely > different place than I expected. I found a video out there where a guy > benchmarked the Surface 3 against the Surface 3 Pro running a bunch of > DAW configurations. Both machines ran these power-hungry DAWs > surprisingly well. The Pro could do more extreme stuff, but I don't > think you will ever see a meaningful difference when running StaffPad. > > And ironically, the video seemed to actually recommend the cheaper > non-Pro model because the Pro model's CPU speed is unpredictable as > Intel keeps zapping it to give it a boost. In heavy DAW applications, > you really want consistent performance, not necessarily the maximum peak > performance. > > And the reviewer noticed a real oddity, which was that the sound levels > coming out of the built-in speakers were about twice as loud on the > cheaper non-Pro. Go figure. The reviewer surmised that there was > probably some setting he needed to adjust. I took some MIDI files into > Best Buy and tried them on both machines and sure enough, the cheaper > non-pro was MUCH louder. It wasn't close. The basic Surface 3 sounded a > lot louder and a lot better. > > Obviously the Pro has a larger display. For me, that larger display > makes it a little less "pad-like" so to speak. If you are going to be > working a lot with StaffPad on scores where the display space is really > important, they I guess the Pro might be worth something, but I couldn't > see spending the extra bucks for a machine that, to me was LESS functional. > > I would definitely NOT recommend the 64GB. That doesn't leave very much > room for OS and apps. If you really think you will never do much more > than use StaffPad, then 64GB is OK. But I would look seriously at 128GB. > > > > > > On 7/5/2015 2:53 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> For those of you out there using StaffPad, is the low-end Surface Pro 3 (i3 >> 64GB model) powerful enough to run StaffPad. My main interest in it is as a >> music reader and for StaffPad. >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> [email protected] >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
