Review: The Surface 3 is the first Surface I can recommend to anyone

Apr13

by Sindy Cator on April 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm

Microsoft introduced the Surface 3, its newest tablet/laptop hybrid starting at $499, a little over a week ago to little fanfare. There was no big press conference or fancy showcase this time around. That’s kind of a shame, because the Surface 3 is the most important device in the series since the original. The preceding Surface RT and Surface 2 only supported Window RT’s touch-friendly ‘Modern’ apps – well, other than the Office suite – meaning running software as common as Photoshop or iTunes was completely out of the question. If you wanted to use the programs you’d known for years, you’d have…