Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Surface Book 2 15-inch laptop first look”.
If you’re not familiar, this is the surface book. It’S a laptop that Microsoft makes with a detachable screen that turns into a little tablet. Now there’s a new version of out. This is the surface book. It’S a 13.5 inch, but new this year. Is this big guy? The surface book 15 inch. Let’S take a closer look, so the surface book is Microsoft, line of high-end professional laptops. That means I have super fast processors, graphics, that put smaller laptops to shame and they just have a very nice design, which is basically the same from what you’ve seen from the four. So when you close it, there is a little bit of a gap here, but that’s because this fancy hinge is designed so that when you open it up, even though the top isn’t a whole tablet, it stays balanced. The other thing that’s new: this year, you hit this button to eject the screen. You can pop it off the little mechanism for attaching it is way stronger. Now they have these new metal fangs that fit into the slot. So the whole thing is a little bit more rigid and as long as I’m holding this, this is the 15 inch version of the tablet, and it is kind of shocking how light the design is way lighter than you would expect it to be honestly – and it Looks really really good.
It’S a very high resolution, really good color and of course you know it’s a touchscreen, and even when you dock it, the 15 inch is still remarkably light. It’S just over four pounds, so you know for a laptop of this class. That’S about appropriate, you might expect it to be way heavier with you lot of power in here, but they’ve done a pretty good job. Now Microsoft put a lot of work into the keyboard, but the funny thing is is that it kind of doesn’t show, because it’s just really good without pointing out that it’s really really good. It’S got a good key travel, good click, eNOS, it’s a solid keyboard, some other really nice new design features here. This 13 inch version doesn’t have any fans in the top of the laptop here in the screen.
There might be some in the bottom if you’re running the graphics card or whatever, and here you’ll notice that the keyboard, if you look closely, it, doesn’t have a little divot or under it anymore. It’S just a smooth big line on it. So that looks way better.
Oh and if you go into, you know, tablet mode each of the tablets and these things should last about 5 hours on there. Microsoft is also claiming 17 hours of battery life on these things, but you should know that Microsoft measures battery life a little bit differently than other companies. They measure the video watching time, so you might not get that much in actual real use, but either way it is a remarkably long time for a laptop of this class to last all right all right, I know you want to know what specs you wanted.
A lot of power, so, let’s get into it. Both of these laptops come with the eighth generation of Intel’s, Core i5 or i7 processors, and what that eighth generation means is that their quad core processors, instead of dual core, like you might have seen before on the 13-inch. You have an NVIDIA, GeForce, 1050 graphics card and over here on the 15 inch it’s a 1060. That means that it should be more than enough power to run Virtual Reality run mixed reality, run all sorts of CAD and other sorts of high-end things, and also game at a pretty high frame rate.
If you want to okay ports, everybody loves ports. I love ports. You love ports. Whatever we’re talking about ports, Microsoft is keeping plain old standard, traditional USB, a on the sides next to a big ol SD card slot.
So they are not keeping any of that away from you, but praise, be. They have added USB C, which you can use for a USB, see stuff or you know a display, there’s also, of course, the traditional surface connector, which is a little magnetic wing that fits on the side, and I know we got to point it out. It’S 3.5 jack on the tablet side of it too. So if you are looking for a pro laptop that actually has the ports that you want and don’t want to have to live, that dongle life surface book pulls that off now.
The thing you should know is that getting a laptop with good graphics, processor or the attachable screen that you can put it on the other side and the really really powerful Intel processor and the touchscreen pen and all that it doesn’t come cheap. So the 13.5 starts at $ 14.99 and the 15-inch starts at $ 24.99 and they’ll both be available starting November 16th. Oh no, doesn’t poop .