The bottom line is that the Surface Pro 3 is apparently not immune to the issue of waking up from sleep when you don’t really want it to. It wasn’t hot by any stretch, and I wasn’t terribly concerned that any damage had been done, but I was disconcerted nevertheless. When I got home, I pulled the machine out of the case and it was awake with the fan running and the case fairly warm. I was hoping that the Surface Pro 3 would be different, but yesterday I was leaving my mother-in-law’s house, closed the Type Cover to put the Surface Pro 3 to sleep, and slipped it into its folio case. Intel processors are designed to shut down if they exceed a certain temperature, and the MacBook Air didn’t seem to suffer any ill effects from this incident, but I was very reluctant from then on to just close the lid and put the MacBook Air in a case for traveling. I remember once pulling out my MacBook Air (which is prone to suffering from this problem) out of a slip cover and finding its fan spinning at full speed and its metal case feeling hot enough to scorch flesh. What’s not so great about the sleep power state, and I’ve experienced this on every notebook I’ve owned, is that sometimes machines will wake up unexpectedly, including when they’re stuffed into a bag or a case. When you close the Type Cover, the Surface Pro 3 goes into a sleep mode that can connect periodically and check email, process alerts, etc., while waking up essentially instantaneously. InstantGo, what used to be called Connected Standby prior to Windows 8.1, is a great feature that essentially makes a machine like the Surface Pro 3 act like an ARM-based tablet. But I’ll also be contacting Microsoft to see if something can be done about how easy it is to accidentally push the power button. And, this is still a helpful tip if you want to put your Surface Pro 3 into hibernation to save battery life (InstantGo does burn the battery a bit). I’ll leave this post as-is in case the issue isn’t the button. Either way, it’s entirely possible that I accidentally hit the button and woke the machine up as I was putting it into the case, because it really only takes a light touch to do so. Rather, I’ve noticed that the power button is actually very easily depressed, or rather perhaps the amount of time it must be depressed to wake it up is too short. Update: I’ve played around a little more with the Surface Pro 3 since writing this post, and I’m not so sure that the machine actually woke up from sleep.
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