After just over an hour on the charger the battery was back to 80% charged. After 90 minutes, the battery was completely dead. Once the work day finished up we finished up some work on a couple of documents and watched another movie on the Surface. Some more work but we decided to shut down the Surface as it was becoming sluggish. As we’re on a plane, WiFi is not active as we’re not prepared to pay a small fortune for limited internet access during the flight. Over the last couple of hours we’ve been mainly using Word to work on a couple of documents. The total run time for the movie is 2:18 making us think that the Surface will have no trouble getting through a normal work day. ![]() Our movie is over (Casino Royale if you’re interested) and the battery is doing surprisingly well. This taxed the Surface’s battery a little more. There was about 40 minutes with the Surface on stand-by but before that we checked email, did some web browsing via WiFi and watched the first 20 minutes a movie. Let’s see what that does.įinally, we’re on the plane in transit. We’ll be watching a movie while waiting in the lounge. That suggests at least several days of stand-by time until the battery would die. So, six hours of inactivity has drained about 3% of the battery. We’ve been on stand-by for a while as we are flying out for a conference in a couple of hours. Surface Go 3 is optimised for digital pens and touch input. After about 20 minutes the battery level has fallen by 3%. The Surface 2-in-1 mobile device with touchscreen is perfect for everyday tasks, homework and gaming. ![]() Started the day reviewing email, some web browsing and social media updates. The day we decided to test this was a busy day with a couple of commitments in the morning and then a flight from Melbourne to Singapore when we planned to get some work done.Ĭharged overnight. We've been using a Surface with Windows RT for a few days now and decided to see if the battery claims stood up in regular every-day use. ![]() Microsoft claims the Surface will deliver about 10 hours of use. Could you really use Microsoft's new Surface tablet, running Windows RT, all day? Here's what we found in our test.
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