It's merely good, not great.įor what it's worth, the trackpad in the Type Cover actually seems reasonably good. The backlight is nice, and I was quickly typing at my usual speeds, but the key travel is too shallow to be as satisfying or responsive as a normal keyboard. It's a relatively shallow chiclet keyboard with mostly full-size keys, though the up and down arrow keys and some on the left and right of the keyboard are a little squeezed to conserve space. The worst part, at least relative to the MacBook Air and the best Ultrabooks, is the Type Cover itself. This entire hands-on post was written with the Surface Pro 3 in my lap, and I kind of liked it. Here's a Surface tablet you can use on your lap, as you would a laptop.Ĭhallenge accepted, Microsoft! When Panos Panay and the other Microsoft execs left the stage, I stowed my MacBook Air in my bag, grabbed my Surface review unit from the cart, and found a couch.
I was one of those people, so a substantial portion of the announcement was aimed specifically at me (and my kind). Microsoft made light of this foible at the Surface Pro 3 announcement today, taking care to highlight how many of the assembled press and analysts were using MacBook Airs to do their liveblogs and take their notes.
When combined with the Surface tablet, the system is shaky on your lap at best. The Surface Touch and Type covers have their virtues, but they absolutely need a stable desk or table to be used. It's not because they're bad machines or because of some specific distaste for Windows or something-it's just that I spend most of my time on my computers writing, and when I'm writing on a laptop, I'm almost always using the device on my lap. Further Reading Surface Pro 2: Less than a laptopI've never actually considered buying one of Microsoft's Surface tablets.
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