Stefan Mileschin

If you have a Surface Pro 3, there’s no reason to upgrade to the Surface Pro 4. The tablet itself is too expensive to warrant upgrading for slightly better specs — but the new Type keyboard… that’s a whole different thing. You need to do yourself the favor of upgrading your SP3’s sad keyboard to the great new SP4 keyboard. Yes, it’s backwards compatible.

I’ve never really understood the point of the Surface Pro line — despite the marketing, it can’t replace your laptop because the kickstand just doesn’t give you the balance you need, and the keyboard case isn’t sturdy enough for serious typing. And then there’s the keyboard, which isn’t that great, but is made enough worse by the terrible touchpad.

Where I live in Northern Virginia, anywhere you go you’ll see people using a Surface tablet — coffee shops, sandwich shops, lounges, or anywhere else that people like to sit and conduct business. They are everywhere, all the time… and never once have I seen anybody using a Surface tablet in… tablet mode. Or in laptop mode. Every single time I have seen somebody using one, they are always using it at a desk or table… the Surface Pro is the tablet that can replace your desktop. Just not your laptop.

The Surface Pro is an amazingly well constructed device, it’s a high quality tablet, for sure. And it deserves a better keyboard to go along with it.

http://www.howtogeek.com/geeknote/th...-sp4-keyboard/