#Surface pro 4 hype windows 10

Surface Pro 4 Review: Killer Display, Spring for the Core i7

Equipped with a Type Cover, it's roughly one pound lighter than the 13-inch MacBook Air, although the Apple laptop is good for an additional three hours on battery power.Īs a laptop - especially one that's not always used on a nice, flat surface - the MacBook Air wins on usability and battery life, but the Surface Pro 4 is lighter and offers the advantage of doing double duty as a tablet. The Surface Pro 4 has the same dimensions as the previous generation Surface Pro, but shaves a little off the thickness. The Surface Pro 4 release included an improved Type Cover that's stiffer and Microsoft also just released a new premium Signature Edition Type Cover that the review unit was equipped with, but the basic issue remains. A flat bottom laptop is more stable and more comfortable. I say 'passable' because while it works well on a flat surface, on an actual lap it's pretty awkward. Pull out the kickstand, flip the magnetically attached Type Cover to reveal its keyboard and the Surface Pro transforms into a passable laptop.

#Surface pro 4 hype windows 10

I haven’t yet tested whether the version of Hyper-V in Windows 10 supports InstantGo, and of course even if it doesn’t now, that could change by the final release.Īlso, I assume Surface 3 will work identically, though of course using Hyper-V on a 2 GB or 4 GB system is not optimal regardless.The combination of the two is what makes the Surface Pro such a successful form factor. Normally, Surface Pro 3 will show Standby Connected (which is InstantGo), Hibernate and Fast Startup.īut if you enable Hyper-V on Surface Pro 3, you will see only Hibernate and Fast Startup. This will display a list of the available sleep states. To see what’s happening with power management on Surface Pro 3 (or any other PC), open a command line and type the following command: In this usage, Surface Pro 3 more closely resembles a standard PC.

This lets Surface Pro 3-which is really a powerful, high-end PC-behave like a simpler device, with instant on and off functionality.īut if you leave Surface Pro 3 alone for several hours, it will then automatically transition to Hibernation, which saves the machine state but fully turns of Surface Pro 3 to save battery life. Instead, as an InstantGo-based system (InstantGo was previously called Connected Standby), Surface Pro 3 only offers a single power plan that triggers InstantGo-an enhanced version of Sleep-automatically when you turn it off or stop using it. Surface Pro 3 doesn’t offer the wide range of power plans you see in most PCs. It debuted on Windows Server, and is now included in client versions (Pro and higher) of Windows as well, as an optional feature install. Hyper-V is of course the Windows virtualization platform. Unfortunately you also need to reboot after each change. To re-enable Hyper-V when you need it (and thus disable InstantGo again): To disable Hyper-V and restore InstantGo, type the following command using an administrator command line: But you can disable and enable Hyper-V on the fly to get InstantGo back if you want. Hyper-V disables InstantGo and reverts Surface Pro 3 to Hibernation only. I bet that is why there is no ‘Sleep’ option in my power settings. I cannot get InstantGo to work with Surface Pro 3.