

Surface will then re-discover the Surface Pen when you hold down the top button of the Surface Pen for about seven seconds–until the light in the middle of the pen clip starts to flash (on the original Surface Pen) or the light on the flat side of the pen glows white (on the new Surface Pen).So, select it from the list and remove the device. If Surface Pen appears in the list of discovered devices, it may not be properly paired yet. Go to Start, and select Settings > Devices > Bluetooth.Please note that you can pair the new Surface Pen with Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book as well as with Surface 3 or Surface Pro 3. If it needs to be replaced, follow the steps above. Insert an AAAA battery with the positive end of the battery pointing toward the writing tip.Īn AAAA battery is pre-installed in the new Surface Pen for Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book.Unscrew the top of the pen (the part with the purple button).

While its Pentium and i3 options are not ideal for all of these tasks (Alder Lake Y should help considerably in this area for future Go models), they still allow the Go 3 to go unrivaled as far as productivity is concerned in its form factor - which is exactly what sets it apart from the competition.

You can plug just about anything into it (external drive, network cable, dock, display, printer, camera, scanner, legacy equipment, etc.) and it can run essentially any software (virtual machines, development tools, CAD programs, image/video/audio editors, scientific tools, games, etc.). As I stated with the Surface Pro 8, the Go 3 can do just about anything that its hardware will allow it to do. The author doesn't even bother to properly address software in the article and just goes by the assumption that "Windows = bad, iPadOS = good". These Surface vs iPad articles are extremely low effort and riddled with errors (some examples: the author uses the i3-10100 as a sub in for the i3-10100Y, they don't mention that the Surface Go 3 has microSDXC, etc.). The author appears to know very little about Surface devices and probably just took a glance at the spec sheet (and not a very long one at that).Īgain, at the end of the day, the Surface Go 3 is a full x86 based Windows 11 device. That specification table… did anyone bother to proof the format/structure once it was published?
