![]() ![]() Microsoft's own Surface Laptop, whose second iteration was announced on 3 October with 8th Gen Intel processor, also makes for a compelling case. If nothing else, you could at least show off its party-trick hinge to a fascinated audience, but other than that, you might be better off buying literally any other laptop available today. The pricing also means that it's far from being a value product. I assume the Surface Book 2 is meant for a certain kind of audience, though I'm not sure who that audience is. This includes devices like the Dell XPS 13, MSI GS65 Stealth and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Regardless of that, for the same price, you can get laptops that are cheaper, lighter, slimmer and more powerful. At Rs 2,23,000 in India (for the top end model), this laptop is already selling at a premium of almost Rs 50,000. Microsoft will pay users a handsome fee if they can outsmart Bing AI, make it go rogue US tax authorities claim Microsoft owes them $29bn in back taxes, tech giant refutes allegations Barring gaming laptops, it's been years since I've seen a laptop this thick. A Lenovo Yoga 920, while it doesn't come with a detachable display, is half as thick (0.5 inches). The hinge, while beautifully engineered, is huge and ugly and makes the laptop much thicker (0.9 inches) than it needs to be. ![]() At 1.9 kg for this 13-inch model (816 g for the tablet portion), it's heavier than the more powerful 15-inch MacBook Pro. While it's got great specs on paper and has the best display and battery life I've seen on a laptop in Windows land yet, I find it almost impossible to define a use-case for the device.įor starters, Surface Book 2 is neither the thinnest nor the lightest notebook out there. This is a question that bothered me from the start. But with so many Windows-based laptops in the market across the price range, and some from established players such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and so on, how relevant is the Surface Book 2? So far, we have only had the Surface Pro selling in India. In a way, it is Microsoft’s answer to Apple's tight-knit hardware-software ecosystem. The Surface line of products is Microsoft’s flagship lineup and is meant to put Windows 10's best face forward, a hardware and software integration template for other manufacturers to emulate. The entry-level Surface Go is also expected to be coming to India soon. The first variant of the Surface Book never came to India, but with the second generation, Microsoft has decided to launch not just the Surface Book 2, but also the Surface Laptop. Regardless, the Surface Laptop 3 is much cheaper than the 15-inch MacBook Pro.Microsoft has finally launched the second generation of its flagship laptop, the Surface Book 2, in India. The 15-inch Surface Laptop 3 starts at a reasonable $1,299 when configured with a Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD, but that price skyrockets once you upgrade storage and RAM capacity. The Surface's result is not bad by any measure, but the 15-inch MacBook Pro endured for 10 hours and 21 minutes, a couple hours longer than the premium laptop average (8:15). We were disappointed when the Surface Laptop 3 lasted only 8 hours on our battery test, which involves continuous web browsing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits. The average premium laptop tops out at 61 fps on this game. The Surface Laptop played the racing game Dirt 3 at 57 frames per second, whereas the MacBook Pro ran the title at a smooth 120 fps. MORE: Laptops with the Best Productivity Performance The MacBook Pro has a more-capable Radeon Pro Vega 20 GPU but is limited by how few games macOS supports. The Surface Laptop 3's integrated AMD Radeon Vega 9 graphics can play casual games but not AAA titles at high graphics settings. Neither of these laptops is great for gamers, but that's for different reasons in each case. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the MacBook Pro's 4TB PCIe SSD reached a blistering rate of 2,610.8 MBps, several times faster than the category average (504.6 MBps). Alas, the 256GB SSD in our review unit was painfully slow, needing 18 seconds to duplicate 4.97GB of multimedia data at a rate of 282.7 megabytes per second. This huge gulf in performance wouldn't have been so bad if Microsoft had equipped the Surface Laptop 3 with a fast hard drive. ![]()
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