![]() ![]() Tilt the kickstand back further to 140-150 degrees, and it’s a perfectly-angled writing surface for use on a desk if you’re taking notes. With the kickstand bent back to 120-130 degrees and the keyboard attached, it works as well as any conventional laptop if you spend your life with your legs crossed on the sofa. Those two changes transform the Surface into a good laptop that will work almost everywhere. The Type Cover keyboard, meanwhile, can now be latched at its upper edge magnetically to the bottom of the SP3’s screen, creating a rigid platform in place of the wobbly board that haunted previous Surfaces. ![]() In place of the two-stage kickstand debuted by the Surface 2, the SP3 support now bends almost all the way back, using a brand new hinge design. But only because the changes they bring from the first and second generation Surface are so obvious that you wonder why they didn’t happen earlier (don’t worry if you own an earlier Surface – we’re sure Microsoft has a letter of apology in the post…). DESIGN: WHY DIDN’T THEY DO THIS IN THE FIRST PLACE?Īfter just a week with the Surface Pro 3, the Type Cover 3 and flexible kickstand had left us furious with Microsoft.
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