![]() ![]() However, if you want a satisfying Surface experience, the keyboard isn't optional. Though the Surface's Type Cover is its biggest selling point, Microsoft continues to sell it as an optional accessory for $129. Imagine going to buy a DeLorean and being told that the doors cost extra. ![]() The device also remained completely cool to the touch, though the back area underneath the camera lens - a spot you're unlikely to touch - got as warm as 97 degrees Fahrenheit after the tablet streamed a video for 15 minutes. Unlike the Surface Pro 3 and many other Windows tablets, the Surface 3 has a completely fanless design, so it remained completely quiet throughout my testing. After switching to the heavy-metal, guitar-centric "Breaking the Law" by Judas Priest, I could make out a clear separation of sound between instruments on the right and left sides of the tablet. When I listened to Patrice Rushen's disco classic "Forget Me Nots," the vocals, percussion and thumping bass sounded rich and textured. While most tablets provide dull, tinny music playback, the Surface 3 offers truly excellent audio that's loud enough to fill a large living room. The device also supports stylus input from the Surface Pen, a $50 accessory. Throughout testing, the Surface 3's display was extremely responsive to my touches, including pinching to zoom or drawing with all 10 fingers at once (it supports 10-point touch) in Windows Paint. Anytime light reflected off of the glossy panel, my fingerprints obscured the screen content. I was able to view the screen in direct sunlight, and colors didn't wash out significantly, even at viewing angles wider than 45 degrees. ![]() Scoring 407 nits on our light meter, this Microsoft tablet is one of the brightest on the market, eclipsing the tablet category average (341 nits), the iPad Air 2 (368 nits) and the Surface Pro 3 (298 nits). It's also quite accurate, returning a Delta E error rate of 3.1 (Zero is perfect.) That's 10 percent more than the tablet category average (83.7) and a tad less than the Surface Pro 3 (97 percent) and the iPad Air 2 (100 percent), and way ahead of the Asus Transformer Book T300 Chi (70 percent). According to our tests, the Surface 3 is capable of displaying 99.3 percent of the sRGB color gamut, which means it can show nearly every standard color. ![]()
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