The Intel Atom x7-Z8700 is based on the brand-new Atom generation and is manufactured in a 14 nm process. The use of Windows 8.1 is possible thanks to the integration of a CPU with x86 support. Microsoft does not want to comment on the future of Windows RT, but insiders think this will be the end of Windows RT. The most important change compared to the predecessors Surface 2 (here in review) and Surface RT is that you get a full version of Windows 8.1 this time. Panos Panay, Corporate Vice President for Surface Computing, already announced the Surface 3 on March 31st on Microsoft's Surface Blog. Microsoft's search for the next generation of notebooks continues. I mainly use it to watch Netflix/Prime and take notes/TTRPG character sheets in OneNote with the stylus so I don't need much horsepower and love the long battery life and dimensions.Īpologies for grave dig but I found this thread through Google and wanted to provide recent info for any other adventurers.For the original German review, see here. Nice to get a bit more time out of this thing.

Even seems to be slightly snappier than Win10 but that might be an illusion. I switched to using portable apps years ago on this thing so I could move them to the microSD card for big updates, but I still had to uninstall a few of the bigger apps and reinstall them after (eg Office). I didn't track the time but it took maybe 2-3 hours.

Skipped the 'download updates during install process' option just in case. Downloaded the ISO from the MS site, mounted it using Explorer, and ran setup.exe. Going through Windows Update didn't work. Used the official MS registry key method. Successfully upgraded my 4GB/64GB Surface 3 to Win11.

Windows 11 on surface 3