Hi David, Thanks, this is all extremely helpful!
Also, since you are Surface Pro user, I assume you've heard about StaffPad? Looks like a very interesting new pen-based notation product, especially for times where I'm away from my home MIDI keyboard setup. http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/staffpad-is-a-music-handwriting-app/ Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Apr 1, 2015, at 5:33 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbaile...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 4/1/2015 12:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Has anyone been running Finale for Windows on the Surface Pro 3 tablet, and >> if so… how's that been going for you? >> >> Also, any prognostication on how Fin2014 would perform on the just-announced >> Surface 3 (non-pro)? >> > > > I haven't done a lot with it on my SurfacePro3 (i5 processor, 128GB > storage) but I've used Fin2014 some. It works just fine. I've used > Sibelius7.1 on it a lot more and except for the small fonts for the > menu/ribbon items it's a terrific portable replacement for my main > computer. Be forewarned however that there is only 1 USB port, so in > order to take advantage of multiple input devices such as a midi > keyboard and a USB numpad (I haven't found a decent bluetooth keyboard > which has a numpad on it, and bluetooth numpads are very expensive) you > need a small USB hub. And the USB port on the SurfacePro3 is > underpowered (to save battery life) so running external hard drives > needs a powered USB hub unless you have a hard drive which has its own > battery power. > > Everything I've read leads me to think the new version *might* run > Finale just as well as the Pro version but also it might not. The Atom > chip is a single-core processor so Finale might get interrupted when the > cpu handles other functions such as polling the ports or if you're > running a browser in the background. > > I love the screen size and am using the program MusicReader as my > electronic music stand, in addition to using the SurfacePro as my travel > computer. It runs Office just fine, it runs WordPerfect just fine, it > runs Band-in-a-Box just fine. > > My suggestion is to bite the bullet and buy the Pro version -- I just > read a review of the new Surface which compared it to a netbook only > better and suggests it might be better than the full-fledged notebooks > in the same price range. But I would never try to run high-powered > programs like Finale or Sibelius on a netbook nor would I buy a $400 > laptop for it either. > > But that's just my opinions and experience -- others may differ. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
