FWIW: The StaffPad guy says it works great on the i3 Surface Pro 3. Also, I figure if I need more storage than 64GB (and probably will) I can spend $25 on a micro SD card. I know the 4 might be announced next month, but who knows when it would show up in the points store: probably many months from now.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> wrote: > Keep in mind the Surface 3 is actually a much newer machine than the > Surface 3 Pro — the Surface 3 Pro was released over a year ago, while the > Surface 3 came out in May of this year. While the Pro machine has more raw > power, the Surface 3 has the benefit of an additional year's worth of R&D, > which is a lifetime when it comes to these devices. > > Also keep in mind that the Surface 4 Pro is expected in August. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:20 PM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > > > I went through this evaluation myself and ended up in a completely > > different place than I expected. I found a video out there where a guy > > benchmarked the Surface 3 against the Surface 3 Pro running a bunch of > > DAW configurations. Both machines ran these power-hungry DAWs > > surprisingly well. The Pro could do more extreme stuff, but I don't > > think you will ever see a meaningful difference when running StaffPad. > > > > And ironically, the video seemed to actually recommend the cheaper > > non-Pro model because the Pro model's CPU speed is unpredictable as > > Intel keeps zapping it to give it a boost. In heavy DAW applications, > > you really want consistent performance, not necessarily the maximum peak > > performance. > > > > And the reviewer noticed a real oddity, which was that the sound levels > > coming out of the built-in speakers were about twice as loud on the > > cheaper non-Pro. Go figure. The reviewer surmised that there was > > probably some setting he needed to adjust. I took some MIDI files into > > Best Buy and tried them on both machines and sure enough, the cheaper > > non-pro was MUCH louder. It wasn't close. The basic Surface 3 sounded a > > lot louder and a lot better. > > > > Obviously the Pro has a larger display. For me, that larger display > > makes it a little less "pad-like" so to speak. If you are going to be > > working a lot with StaffPad on scores where the display space is really > > important, they I guess the Pro might be worth something, but I couldn't > > see spending the extra bucks for a machine that, to me was LESS > functional. > > > > I would definitely NOT recommend the 64GB. That doesn't leave very much > > room for OS and apps. If you really think you will never do much more > > than use StaffPad, then 64GB is OK. But I would look seriously at 128GB. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7/5/2015 2:53 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > >> For those of you out there using StaffPad, is the low-end Surface Pro 3 > (i3 > >> 64GB model) powerful enough to run StaffPad. My main interest in it is > as a > >> music reader and for StaffPad. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
