长途旅行真机实测：微软新款平板电脑能够取代笔记本吗

    因此，你只能选择传统的桌面界面。尽管你可以用手指在用户环境中操作，但这种体验很难让人感到愉悦。要触控的目标相对于你的粗手指而言太小了，需要试很多次才能按中屏幕上的按钮。你还有可能点到其他图标，最后打开了一个其他的应用或网页。当我想要浏览文件资源管理器（File Explorer）中的照片时，就遇到了这种极度折磨人的情况。我绝望地点击了许多次文件夹图标，希望最终能把它打开。有时候我实在灰心了，不得不连上Type Cover键盘来完成这项任务。（别让我再讲述打开某张特定照片的过程了。）

    经过了一周的海外旅途及1.2万英里的航程的体验后，Surface Pro 3能够成为我的笔记本电脑的合适替代品吗？并不完全如此。我发现它能够胜任工作，但是无法自始至终都保持优异的表现。这种不舒服的体验让微软还无法与苹果的平板电脑竞争。微软承诺用Surface Pro 3解决笔记本和平板电脑的争端，不过其实Windows 8.1就足够了。

    微软没有说错，Surface Pro 3可以替代平板电脑。但你是否愿意这样做，那就是另外一回事了。

    微软已经在官网开放了Surface Pro 3的预订服务。产品起售价是799美元，部分产品从明天起就可以开始配送。（财富中文网）

    译者：严匡正

    Which leaves only the classic desktop interface. Though you can use a finger to touch and tap around the environment, it isn’t a pleasant experience. A combination of small touch targets and stubby fingers leaves you trying multiple times to press a button on screen, for example, or tapping on the wrong item and ending up in another app or on a different web page than you intended. An example of this excruciating experience was when I tried to view photos in File Explorer; I found myself tapping on folder icons multiple times in despair, hoping one would eventually open. Sometimes I became so frustrated that I would connect the Type Cover to complete the task. (Don’t get me started on what it took to open individual photos.)

    After a week abroad and almost 12,000 miles in the sky, is the Surface Pro 3 a suitable replacement for my laptop? Not quite. I found it to be capable but frustrating in its inconsistency. That broken experience hinders Microsoft’s ability to compete with Apple in the tablet category. Microsoft promised to eliminate conflict with the Surface Pro 3, but Windows 8.1 is full of it.

    True to Microsoft’s word, the Surface Pro 3 can replace a laptop. Whether you’d want it to, well, that’s another story.

    Microsoft has begun taking pre-orders for the Surface Pro 3 at its website. The device starts at $799 and some models will ship as early as tomorrow.