Surface Pro 3 Gets a January 2017 Firmware Update

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• 9522

  31 January, 2017 - 1:41 pm

  <p>Not sure if it’s the display driver update, &nbsp;but my sp3 got the firmware update yesterday, and now some font rendering on the external displays (via sp3 dock) is now very poor with some programs and/or sites.&nbsp;</p>
  <p>Appearance on the 2 full hd screens in some cases looks very jaggy as if antialiasing were disabled.&nbsp;</p>
  <p>And the update still &nbsp;hadn’t fixed the 3:45 am crash reboot if left on the dock overnight.&nbsp;</p>
  <p>Oh well, maybe an sp5 soon…?&nbsp;</p>

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• 5539

  31 January, 2017 - 7:38 pm

  <blockquote><em><a href="#39600">In reply to </a><a href="../../../users/agt4">agt4</a><a href="#39600">:</a>&nbsp;</em>Curious why you are looking to a SP5, given your experience with the SP3? When we bought our 3s (yea I have one too) it was a pretty unique device. Today there are many comparable devices in size, weight, performance, (price). HP, Lenovo, even Dell have interesting options. By the time SP5 comes around, I expect even&nbsp;more. With the proliferation of USB-C/Thunderbolt the dock abilities will&nbsp;likely not be unique either, and less proprietary. The current Surface dock isn’t even a dock, but rather a port extender IMHO. Picked up something almost identical in capability for my Wife’s XPS-15 with a USB-C interface. Yea, video, usb, ethernet, etc out, and it charges the laptop, all on the one cable. My Surface Pro 3 is working just fine, sorry about yours, but even were I to need a replacement today, I would spend a good deal of time looking&nbsp;outside of Surface.</blockquote>
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  01 February, 2017 - 1:39 am

  <p>I got the update – while I was away from my computer, which was turned on when I left it. 10 minutes later I came back and it was in the midst of updating. This was within my "active hours". Far from ideal…</p>
  <p>I haven’t yet noticed any changed behavior. I’ll test Miracast and then we’ll see.</p>

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