I am looking to install X3 onto my Surface Pro - but as there is limited power available to the USB port (ie my backup USB hard drive will not run because of lack of power), I was wondering if it is possible to install it over the wifi network - I know it will be slow, but perhaps not as slow as manually transferring the install files then installing?
 
 
 
 

What about a thumb drive? A 16GB drive is about $10 and much larger than needed.

Yeah I thought of that Scook, but I have plenty on hand that are 4gig . .and one 32gig one that holds my W8 Surface OS backup - I removed the partition for extra space. So I am a little loathe to use it, lest it corrupts the OS data.
 
You may be right, might be just easier to go to the store and buy another 16 gig drive - although out here they are not $10
 
LOL, by the time I go to the store at 9am (it is 6.40am at the moment) and get home and copy X3 and then install, it would probably STILL be installing over wifi!

If you do go the flash drive route, unpack the download files using 7-Zip and copy the files onto the drive. This should make the install go faster by skipping the unpacking on the target machine.

You should not have any problems. My laptop is connected via WIFI and i didn't have any issues. but i guess it depends on how fast the connection is
 
CJ

I used to use wifi to get to my studio computer.  It was dreadfully slow.  I went out and got me a long CAT 5 cable and hardwired it.  It was heaven.

scook
If you do go the flash drive route, unpack the download files using 7-Zip and copy the files onto the drive. This should make the install go faster by skipping the unpacking on the target machine.

Great tip, thanks Scook.
 
Thanks others for your thoughts. The Surface does not have a LAN port so via LAN is not possible 

CJaysMusic
You should not have any problems. My laptop is connected via WIFI and i didn't have any issues. but i guess it depends on how fast the connection is
 
CJ

Its a pretty standard wi-fi Cjay - and the Surface is about 4 feet away from it..I did a test run of the first install file, and it took forever to even display the X3 user data screen (serial number, name etc etc), so I gave it up as a bad joke!

Yea, i understand. IIRC, mine took hours over the WIFI

Will X3 run on a Surface Pro?
 
I am guessing you would need a Dock to have enough ports for an external hard drive and an audio interface, and also I would think the 8 GB of memory would be the better choice - if it can even run X3.
 
Bob Bone