The touch-sensitive screen is bright and at a resolution of 3240×2160, you’re getting a higher pixel density than on the MacBook Pro. The large chiclet keyboard has enough travel and gives you a good indication that you’ve pressed a button, making it quite comfortable to type on. The tablet/screen is securely attached to it (and the keyboard has a key that releases it from its base).
What you can’t argue about, though, is the overall quality of the build. But it sure makes it stand out in this crowded laptop market. We can argue about its design - that rounded hinge that leaves quite a gap even when the laptop is closed wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea when the first version launched and while Microsoft has tweaked the hinge, the gap is still as prominent as ever. We’ll do that in a week or so, after I’ve had some more real-world experience with it.Įven after a short time with the new Surface Book, I’ve come away impressed (anything else at this price would be quite a disappointment, of course). I’ve only had the Surface Book 2 on my desk for just over 24 hours, so this isn’t a definitive review (I have barely been able to run the battery down once in that time, after all). It’s Microsoft’s challenger to the MacBook Pro and it’s not shying away from the comparison. But Microsoft’s message here is pretty clear: the Surface Book 2 is basically a mobile workstation for those who want to edit videos and photos, play games on the road or just need a really powerful mobile machine to crunch numbers or compile a Linux kernel or two. There surely a world of difference between the performance of these low-end and high-end machines, so you get what you pay for. In between, there are a number of other 15-inch models with Nvidia 1050 GPUs and varying numbers for RAM and disk space.
That’s $3,299 worth of Surface Book, though at the low-end, you can also get a 13-inch machine for $1,499 with an i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and an integrated Intel GPU.
Microsoft shipped me a top-of-the-line 15-inch Surface Book 2 review unit with the latest Intel Core i7-8650U CPU clocked at 1.9 GHz, a discrete Nvidia 1060 GPU with 6GB of RAM, 16GB of memory and a terabyte SSD. It’s a relatively heavy base with a powerful processor and graphics card and a big battery - and it has a surprisingly light removable screen that turns it into a tablet and that features a less powerful processor and graphics chip. It’s not just a Surface Pro with a rigid keyboard. It’s also one of the odder devices in the lineup, though. It easily blows away the Surface Pro, Surface Laptop and, of course, the old Surface Book. Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 is the most powerful mobile Surface device yet.
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