Recent content by Paul Everist

  1. Paul Everist

    Smart Charging Paused

    As my SP8 spends most of its time plugged into my Surface Dock, I decided to enable "Smart Charging" in the Surface app. I wanted to preserve the life of the battery and this seemed to be a good way to do it. Today I needed to go out and wanted to make sure the battery was fully charged so...
  2. Paul Everist

    Surface Pro 8 SSD replacement. Is it working out? What do you think?

    I bought the SP8 i5 128GB and then replaced the drive with a WD 1TB. I followed the instructions in Dan's excellent article and had no problems. I decided not to transfer the metal case from the old drive to the new one. I use the SP* for at least 8 hours every day, mostly plugged into a...