The new Surface Book starts at $2,399, £1,799 or AU$3,299, which is higher than even Apple charges for its entry MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. Multitasking Multimedia Test 3.0 (in seconds) Will the Surface Book with Performance Base be folded in? I wouldn't count on it if you're desperate to get VR into your life, but time will tell. Now, that could change down the road: Microsoft promises its Windows Holographic environment and headsets debuting next year will work across more computers. The GeForce GTX 965M is a very good processor for everyday gaming and graphics work, and finally gets the Surface Book into power-user territory.īut, it's still out of range for what current VR rigs like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require, meaning this isn't a VR-compatible PC. And, then there's the Nvidia GeForce graphics. The new Surface Book has faster performance, better multitasking, better battery performance - enough to make a difference, but not necessarily enough to eclipse the competition. Ultimately, that's fine - in our initial experience, Kaby Lake chips aren't massively faster, and given how much trouble Microsoft had fixing the sleep/wake glitch on the original Surface Book, it's good that they're sticking with what works. And note that the new chip is still a sixth-gen Skylake processor, not the latest seventh-gen Kaby Lake model that's appearing in some new Windows machines. But, while the upgraded Intel Core i7 processor is new, but it's not quad-core.

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