Surface Book: Here is the surprise of Microsoft for the world of laptops
Surface Book with Microsoft enters the notebook sector by extending the product family Surface and turning to those users who want to continue using a traditional notebook.
Next to Microsoft Surface Pro 4 also introduced Surface Book, that product is a real novelty for the American company because for the first time Microsoft has a notebook.
Display 13.5-inch diagonal, Intel Core and sixth generation of NVIDIA discrete GPU are the main technical characteristics of this product. But most of all is the ability to detach the display from the base, just like a 2-in-1 product that amazes in Surface Book: NVIDIA has integrated GPU inside the base, so when the display is disconnected Surface Book uses the video subsystem integrated into the processor Intel Core.
Microsoft declares autonomy of 12 hours in battery mode; They are integrated in the base two USB 3.0 ports and a memory card reader.
Not only, the screen can be detached, making Surface Book a tablet, but it can be reconnected at the base even so reversed: this allows you to have a tablet with the base connected to capture all the computing power made available by the NVIDIA integrated in the base. Microsoft indicates this mode as the one to be preferred for those who want to have a tablet with which to interact in a very rich with 3D objects and graphics in general.
These features make hardware Surface Book a notebook extremely powerful, to be compared according to Microsoft with MacBook Pro: the declared data is processing power 2 times higher, since it is obviously to be verified but, which is penalized by the presence of a processor family Skylake is the presence of an NVIDIA discrete GPU.
The starting price in the North American market, is $ 1,499 with preorder available from this week, and marketing by 26 October. At present, it is not known when Microsoft will launch the sales of this product in the domestic market, and at what price; it is conceivable that like what we saw with the previous versions of Surface Pro and Surface Book also provides different cuts per processor, amount of system memory and storage solution.
Microsoft has repeatedly indicated Surface Book as ” the ultimate notebook ” : from what we could see Surface Book can be properly defined as the 2-in-1 final, at least at the present time.
