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Artists are a really important audience for the Surface Pro 3

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Gabe reviews the Surface Pro 3 over on Penny Arcade, through the eyes of a digital artist: So my honest opinion right now is that I’m frustrated with the device. It’s so close to being perfect that the problems it has feel especially maddening. If it just performed a little better! If they just hadn’t put that button right there! Grrrr. MS is going to be using me as a sort of artist guinea pig from what it sounds like. They will be bringing me new devices with some special options that they think may resolve my problems. As soon

The Surface Pro is “a fantastic drawing tablet”

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Microsoft need a lot more articles like this from Gabe over at Penny Arcade. He picked up the Surface Pro to work on one of the regular comic strips, and was pretty happy with the results. For me the Surface Pro is actually a great piece of hardware. For other digital artists out there looking for a portable solution or maybe a Cintiq 12WX alternative I would highly recommend it. I’m not actually sure how this review hardware stuff works. I don’t know if MS expects me to give this thing back or not. I’ve already decided that if they