Microsoft Surface Pro 3

It wasn't too long ago we were tearing down the Surface Pro 2 and lamenting over the dismal score of one out of ten on our repairability scale. Will the Surface Pro 3 be deja vu all over again? Let's get the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 on the teardown table and find out.
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[@numbers9to0]

Beautyful disposable electronics. Future generations will be so proud of us.

[@ifur]

on the positive side SSD can be replaced, if you dont break the display

[@dustystudy]

Great video Gwen. I just got 2 of these at work for testing. Looks like a huge pain to repair! Thanks

[@gabay1953]

Thanks for the video and professional explanation. Is there also a surface pro 4? I'd love to get a link thanks

[@NickMoore]

They are pretty rough to disassemble but how prone are they to failure? My Pro 1 has stood up to some moderate abuse with no signs permanent damage.

[@GandraZz]

Has fan and cannot be opened to clean it, that's great idea.

[@annoyingguyoninternet1631]

How can first enter there?

[@SethSetiadha]

I have SP3 with cracked screen, and it prevents me to get into the system. Would it work for me just to remove the screen and connect the SP3 to the monitor using the mini display port? I'm asking not trying first just because i dont have the tools.

[@kearneyl8047]

😉Wonderful teardown as always... talk about a thin screen though, wow!

[@jrosales424]

Thank you ifixit i'm trying to pop the screen on. Windows surface pro 3. but since i saw your beautiful video i decided not to touch it. Thanks a lot you save my day and keep going ifixit i love you ❤ 💘

[@CNLeandro]

Great video, Gwendolyn!

[@ybbolb]

Wonder how the MS techs do repair for those faulty units sent in for servicing. They have a bunch of special tools?

[@osmanmohamed8638]

Thank you very much teacher for addison

[@matryc]

If you have display broken already, there is a good excuse to replace SSD, mine is slow samsung 140 MBps write speed. I only regret that there is no room for a ram memory upgrade :/

[@bigrichreptiles0272]

i had that surface pro 3 the battery life was HORRIBLE i swapped it out and got me a 15 in macbook pro retina display got 70 miles back home opened the brand new macbook pro retina and the screen didnt work had to take it back to best buy 70 miles away and swap it out

[@supersu5406]

1080p and 60FPS Videos in the Future? thx :)

[@bandiththongkiew]

thank

[@Crana]

if you guys messed up the screen that means 99.9% of people will do the same so I was expecting a 0/10... plus even if you do everything perfectly it'll never go back together the same without massive time and effort

[@routtee]

Well, as long as it works with no issues....I am happy with that :)

[@Kowalskithegreat]

thumbs up if you're also watching this on your surface pro 3!

[@Mezoxin]

would love to see how the guys at microsoft actually take it apart

[@justin9095]

Do you rebuild the items you tear down?

[@BRBallin1]

No way lol. Why would they?

[@akwardturtleee]

Justin Some times the do the had a video where the assembled the Pixel 2 XL it worked but the screen was broken it had a big white strip

[@amwartwork]

my 3.5mm headphone jack doesnt physically fit. why?

[@albert275]

They weren't kidding about fusing that screen tight...

[@KenHeslip]

One was dropped at the launch and survived with glass intact.

[@dark.30on58]

Where did you get a i5 Version with 128GB SSD and 8GB of RAM. This would propably be the version I want, but Microsoft charges a lot more because of a 256GB SSD.....

[@akshayrathore2882]

there is no such version

[@TheSpotify95]

they meant 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD

[@leptondyson]

5000 mah battery?? How can that last 9 hours? My note pro is 12 inches and has a 9500 mah battery and that only gets about 7-8 hours

[@DataWaveTaGo]

It's rated for 9 hr Web surfing - at dimmest display level you can stand no doubt. Best used in a dark room ... ;)

[@joppetie]

mAh isn't a measurement of the amount of energy that can be stored in a battery. A 5000 mAh, 5V battery stores a lot less power than a 3500 mAh, 12V battery: 5x5=25 and 3,5x12=42 A correct way to measure an amount of power is WH, or Watt-Hours. You often see this on notebook-batteries, but not on phone or tablet batteries.

[@TheSpotify95]

@@DataWaveTaGo It's common practice to not get anywhere near the stated battery life levels of a device in standard usage conditions. I don't know how they come up with the "up to" rated battery life. for example my HP laptop says up to 8 hours but the maximum you'll get, even on power saver mode, is 4-5 hours?!

I actually expected a 0 because of the thin glass and kind-of destroyed battery.

[@stormsergeN80]

As a repair technician of 7 years now i dont see why this scores a 1 out of 10, its a pretty straight forward repair if you replacing the screen. I guess if your just looking to upgrade the ssd it might be a pain to not cracked the lcd assembly.

[@Duckers_McQuack]

And this is why i chose to pay 500 bucks extra for the 256GB model than the 128GB model of the i5 surface pro 3.

[@DXJG]

+Hard-Rive Duckers 128gb for 500USD.... waste of money, in two years a tablet 256gb will cost 150 usd....

[@TheSpotify95]

$500 for an upgrade to 256GB is a bit steep, you could have purchased a 128GB microSD card and added that into the card holder, for a total of 256GB. My Surface Pro 3 is the 4GB and 128GB version (i5 CPU), would have preferred 8GB/256GB or 8GB/512GB but I got it this year on the used market and anything else would have been too expensive. I've never come across any situations where 4GB is not enough RAM on it, and the SSD still has tons of capacity left.

[@Khilab_Lacks]

Why Microsoft why?! Why not just use screw?!

[@SimX9000]

They need to do a better job designing this shit. Glue? Come on a HD upgrade or memory upgrade should be easy. You could never get this thing back together like factory.

[@Nabalazs]

Hold your horses! Is that an M sata (or M.2? :S) SSD? So, for the risk, you could put a ginirmous ssd in it? Cool! Everything else: just wow. But I no wut? I'd buy it. I like it.

[@marshalgamez9030]

Well then...

[@H03Z0Wi3]

***** / iFixit: Wow, this presentation is *VERY WELL* done, the presentation lady 'Gwen' in this Video uses the English languages articulation grammar and spell which is extremely good, almost perfect. Never heard a lady 'Gwen' speaking soooo good English, very well done!

[@teralnic]

Ну хрен знает, посмотрел это видео, всё вскрыл, поменял экран, до конца не смотрел, так что был удивлён, что сделал ппц какую сложную процедуру

[@SceptrumVirtuale]

Something that's worse than apple on being repairable. That's 3 times now. Now we know this is a trend

[@oliverkiwus5031]

i will never repair my fan

[@MatthewJohnGardner]

Should of gave it a -1

[@Daniel-vu4qu]

What a joke the battery in these things are a joke... They need to be replaced but yet they can't?

[@BRBallin1]

Wtf. iPad Mini 2 has larger battery capacity...Also jokes on Apple haters. Other companies have proved that they make unrepairable tech as well.

[@TheoWerewolf]

Here's the thing. Microsoft realises that people want to use a pen - and most screens just don't work well with pens because the thick glass and separation of glass from display that would make this easier to remove and replace also means a lot of parallax (where you touch the pen to the surface of the display looks offset from where the computer thinks you're pointing). I have one and I've used lots of other touch/pen systems and they got this dead on right - writing on a Surface Pro 3 is almost like writing on paper. No one else comes close to this. So for me, this makes the screen issues irrelevant. I want the best screen to use, not to replace (although both would be better). The real issue is the over use of glue. Everyone uses glue and double-sided tape. That's forgiveable, but given how delicate the screen is, they should have found some other way to hold it in place. Same with the battery - a clip frame would have been better and not taken up any more space. In the end though, Microsoft didn't design it for people to self-repair - they designed it for the best possible user experience and to make it as solid and reliable as possible. As a Surface Pro 3 owner, I can honestly say - this is one of the nicest, most solidly constructed and premium feeling tablets I've ever owned.

[@humorss]

I don't think the thin glass has anything to do with stylus, cause the pressure sensor is in the stylus and it uses some kind of magnets to locate the nib, not by contact with the screen. it should be sensitive even when hovering

[@TheoWerewolf]

10shot9miss Err sorry - I should have been clearer. You're mostly right (actually, there's an antenna around the screen that picks up a radio pulse sent by the pen which includes pressure information - and the position of the pen is determined by the relative signal strength to the antenna) What I was talking about was a different problem - parallax. When you use a screen where there's a large gap between the screen and the front of the glass, when you place the tip of the pen down on the glass, it's actually quite a distance from the screen and so it's very hard to know exactly where the pen tip really is relative to the screen because you're looking at the tip from an angle. It makes it hard to pick up the pen after drawing a line and hit the line again accurately when you put the pen on the screen again. This is why Microsoft has a cursor that you can't make go away when using the pen - which itself blocks what you're trying to draw over. This makes the writing and especially the drawing experience a bit off. The Surface, by bringing the screen directly in contact with the glass and making the glass as thin as possible - reduces the parallax almost to zero - making the writing experience much more natural.

[@humorss]

Theo Werewolf o i see

[@MrMark201200]

FIRST.

[@ukpkmkk_2]

The most random, stupid, inconsistent and unscientific scale I've ever seen

[@lastempire7302]

total garbage productline: Surface Pro