Microsoft's Surface 3 on display at Best Buy

I swung past the local Best Buy to do a little window-shopping and stumbled upon the Microsoft Surface 3. It was a brandish unit for the 64GB version of the Surface 3, and it looked skilful.

As appearance goes, the Surface iii looks and feels a lot like the Surface ii. You do have the obvious departure with the charging ports, but screen size, weight, thickness and the screen quality all seem in the same ballpark.

While handling the Surface iii in a Best Buy is non the best fashion to spend hands-on time with a new device, I was impressed with the new device. The Surface 3 isn't blazingly fast just noticeably quicker than the Surface 2. The Atom processor has a bit more spunk than the Tegra processors of the Surface 2.

Granted, the Cantlet processor isn't on the aforementioned level as the iCore processors of the Surface Pro series merely for the more economically priced Surface iii it seems to perform rather nicely.

I would have liked to have seen how the model with 4GB of RAM performed, but the Surface 3 with 2GB's of RAM is a noticeable footstep up from the Surface 2 (in more ways than one). Speaking of, you can read our spec showdown between the Surface ii and Surface 3 to get a improve thought of what has changed. Also, don't forget to read yesterday's AMA with the Surface team about the new Surface 3 to acquire some other facts most the new hybrid device.

According to the sales crew, the Surface 3 should be available on brandish at all the Best Purchase locations but you volition need to go online at BestBuy.com to pre-order the device. Permit us know in the comments what you recall of the Surface 3 if you have the opportunity to notice 1 at your local Best Buy.

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