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Surface Book and Surface Laptop are quite good.
by kristianov 9y ago
Surface Book and Surface Laptop are quite good.
- vvanders 9y ago+1 on Surface Book. Great build quality, good dev machine and decent gaming laptop as well.
- cgb223 9y agoWas thinking about getting one for work, and gaming is a nice perk What kind of specs/graphics/resolution do you get on that for games?
- vvanders 9y agoJust make sure to grab one with the discrete GPU(dGPU aka Performance Base). It's not going to be anything near a desktop(no laptop will) but I can run most things at 1080p pretty well and some of the lighter stuff(like Pyre) at 3Kx2k(native resolution).
- FiveDegrees 9y agoI would strongly recommend the XPS 15 9560 over it, if you don't need it to be able to convert it to a tablet. More performant, cheaper, better screen.
- reboog711 9y agoJust wait 6 months or so after release....
- UnoriginalGuy 9y agoFor what? I own a Surface Pro 3 and a Surface Book. Both have only been improved through firmware updates after release. There was actually some pain points on the SP3 right around release that caused some headaches.
- reboog711 9y agoGenerally the Surface products have a poor history of 'working' at launch. The reason for waiting is that the firmware improvements come out before you get the machine. My Surface Book was a spotchy experience for the first 6 months or so. by month 6 it was running acceptably.
- m_mueller 9y agoAren't they roughly the same price as Macbooks?
- UnoriginalGuy 9y agoThere's no way to answer that without a bias. It depends which Mac you feel is most comparable to the Surface Laptop, what value is placed on Touchbar (if any), what value is placed on a touchscreen (if any), how much value you place on a slightly faster integrated GPU or a slightly faster CPU (Macbook Pro 13" or Surface Laptop respectively), and numerous other metrics. Broadly speaking I'd likely say, "similar," but there might also be a $200 saving buying the Surface Laptop relative to a similarly spec-ed Macbook Pro 13". I don't consider that a significant saving when we're discussion laptops costing over $1200, but the savings grow as price increases.
- mycall 9y agoI'd like to see 4 or 6 cores.