????因此，你只能選擇傳統的桌面界面。盡管你可以用手指在用戶環境中操作，但這種體驗很難讓人感到愉悅。要觸控的目標相對于你的粗手指而言太小了，需要試很多次才能按中屏幕上的按鈕。你還有可能點到其他圖標，最后打開了一個其他的應用或網頁。當我想要瀏覽文件資源管理器（File Explorer）中的照片時，就遇到了這種極度折磨人的情況。我絕望地點擊了許多次文件夾圖標，希望最終能把它打開。有時候我實在灰心了，不得不連上Type Cover鍵盤來完成這項任務。（別讓我再講述打開某張特定照片的過程了。）

????經過了一周的海外旅途及1.2萬英里的航程的體驗后，Surface Pro 3能夠成為我的筆記本電腦的合適替代品嗎？并不完全如此。我發現它能夠勝任工作，但是無法自始至終都保持優異的表現。這種不舒服的體驗讓微軟還無法與蘋果的平板電腦競爭。微軟承諾用Surface Pro 3解決筆記本和平板電腦的爭端，不過其實Windows 8.1就足夠了。

????微軟沒有說錯，Surface Pro 3可以替代平板電腦。但你是否愿意這樣做，那就是另外一回事了。

????微軟已經在官網開放了Surface Pro 3的預訂服務。產品起售價是799美元，部分產品從明天起就可以開始配送。（財富中文網）

????譯者：嚴匡正

????Which leaves only the classic desktop interface. Though you can use a finger to touch and tap around the environment, it isn’t a pleasant experience. A combination of small touch targets and stubby fingers leaves you trying multiple times to press a button on screen, for example, or tapping on the wrong item and ending up in another app or on a different web page than you intended. An example of this excruciating experience was when I tried to view photos in File Explorer; I found myself tapping on folder icons multiple times in despair, hoping one would eventually open. Sometimes I became so frustrated that I would connect the Type Cover to complete the task. (Don’t get me started on what it took to open individual photos.)

????After a week abroad and almost 12,000 miles in the sky, is the Surface Pro 3 a suitable replacement for my laptop? Not quite. I found it to be capable but frustrating in its inconsistency. That broken experience hinders Microsoft’s ability to compete with Apple in the tablet category. Microsoft promised to eliminate conflict with the Surface Pro 3, but Windows 8.1 is full of it.

????True to Microsoft’s word, the Surface Pro 3 can replace a laptop. Whether you’d want it to, well, that’s another story.

????Microsoft has begun taking pre-orders for the Surface Pro 3 at its website. The device starts at $799 and some models will ship as early as tomorrow.