Surface Book

Surface Book review: By far the best 2-in-1 laptop DDN Correspondent Posted on 09 Dec, 2015 at 05:19:AM IST Surface Book review: By far the best 2-in-1 laptop - Microsoft entered the laptop market with its Surface Book and though the Surface Book looks like any other laptop, but it is different from many of them as it has got an innovative hinge which allows the users to separate the keyboard from the screen. It would not be wrong to say that the Surface Book is a tablet connected to a keyboard, and you need to just press a button to separate the two. It is important to note here that the 2-in-1 laptops have been around for years, but the Surface Book is by far the best implementation so far. The device has got amazing screen and powerful components. The Surface Book has got a magnesium body, adding a bit of texture to grip the device properly. The weight of the device is same as a 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display. The keyboard of Surface Book is a joy to type as they are perfectly sized and flat. The only minus is the uneven backlighting of the keyboard. The Surface Book also boasts of an equally impressive trackpad. The Surface Book is different from other laptops available in the market because it could be used as a large tablet. The keyboard has got a dedicated button to detach the tablet from its keyboard dock. The Surface Book comes with a 13.5-inch screen and has 3000x2000 screen resolution. The Surface Book features a Core i7-6600U, 16GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a custom dedicated graphics card from NVIDIA. The performance of the GPU is similar to the base NVIDIA 940M but features only 1GB of GDDR5 video RAM. And at $2,699, it is not cheap by any standard.