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September 7, 2015
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Has anyone installed the full Prime 3.1 on MS Surface Pro 3?

  • September 7, 2015
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I have been using Mathcad ever since release 2.5 [tells you how old I am].  Two weeks ago my laptop crashed and I was not able to recover anything.  I wanted to transfer my full Prime 3.1 license to my new Surface Pro 3, as it is becoming a very popular engineering platform.  Support could not install it as the Surface does not have an Ethernet card.  Support was able to only install Mathcad Express.  Is anyone using the full version of Prime 3.1 on Surface Pro 3?  Thanks.

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23-Emerald V
September 7, 2015

Yehoshua Gilad wrote:. 

I have been using Mathcad ever since release 2.5 [tells you how old I am].  Two weeks ago my laptop crashed and I was not able to recover anything.  I wanted to transfer my full Prime 3.1 license to my new Surface Pro 3, as it is becoming a very popular engineering platform.  Support could not install it as the Surface does not have an Ethernet card.  Support was able to only install Mathcad Express.  Is anyone using the full version of Prime 3.1 on Surface Pro 3?  Thanks.

I believe a few people have got Mathcad Prime running on a Surface Pro 3 (Valery Ochkov maybe).   As far as I'm aware, the Prime licence is tied to your primary adapter network interface MAC.  Although the Surface Pro 3 might not have a wired Ethernet adapter, I suspect its wifi hardware will (I know my laptop's licence is tied to the wifi MAC ... I looked at the licence during the 30-day Prime 3.1 trial).

I can imagine a number of environments where a wifi-only lapnettopbook would be less use than a chocolate fire door ...

Stuart

24-Ruby IV
September 7, 2015

StuartBruff wrote:

I believe a few people have got Mathcad Prime running on a Surface Pro 3 (Valery Ochkov maybe)

Stuart

I have Surface Pro with Prime 3 and am waiting for Prime 4 (one overstep Prime 3.1).

19-Tanzanite
September 7, 2015

Open a command prompt and type getmac. What does it say?

JoshG1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
September 9, 2015

Thanks Stuart, Valery and Richard.  The attached is the result of the Command prompt response:

CommandLine 2015-09-08_063800.jpg

23-Emerald V
September 9, 2015

Yehoshua Gilad wrote:84

Try requesting a licence attached to the first MAC (84-AE-2B-S7-2D-9D) (I'm not sure whether some of the 'B's and 'D's should be '8's or '0's).

Stuart

24-Ruby III
September 10, 2015

Yehoshua,

Perhaps you are interested in using the "SMath Studio" program as a web "cloud" application on your tablet:

http://smath.info/cloud/

SMath Project

JoshG1-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
September 10, 2015

Thanks Vladimir.

I will try it.