![]() Microsoft Surface Book 2 15in review: Design and functionality If you’re comfortable sacrificing hybrid versatility in favour of a regular clamshell laptop, Dell’s superb XPS 15 starts at £1,299 for the seventh-gen Core i5 configuration and Apple’s latest 15in MacBook Pro at £2,349 with a Core i7, 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Its 13.5in sibling, meanwhile, starts at £1,499 for the Core i5 model, which is equipped with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The base model with a 256GB SSD costs £2,349 with prices spiralling to £3,149 for the top-end configuration with 1TB of storage. This big-screened Surface Book 2 isn’t cheap, though. Microsoft Surface Book 2 15in review: Price and competition In the configuration I’ve reviewed here it comes equipped with an eighth-generation Intel Core i7-8650U processor, 16GB of RAM, a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics chip and a choice of either 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of SSD storage. This is a powerful laptop in its own right. Yet, where most 2-in-1 laptops falter when it comes to raw performance, the Surface Book 2 doesn’t suffer a similar fate. The 3,240 x 2,160 resolution touchscreen display can still be detached from the keyboard, and it can still function as a standalone tablet. The laptop’s design is no different, aside from the larger 15in display and the slightly larger footprint that comes with it. Microsoft’s 15in Surface Book 2 is essentially the same machine as its smaller sibling. Microsoft Surface Book 2 15in review: What you need to know As 2018 begins to find its feet, Microsoft’s 15in Surface Book 2 offers exactly that. The only thing that was sorely missing was a big-screened configuration. With desktop PC-levels of power squeezed into a package you could comfortably carry around on your day-to-day, there was little in the way of competition. ![]() Yes, the firm’s hardware arm was busy launching the Surface Laptop during that time but Microsoft’s bellwether was in dire need of a modern re-do.Īnd what an upgrade it was. Microsoft’s do-it-all laptop hybrid, the Surface Book, finally – ahem – re-surfaced late last year after a two-year hiatus.
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