The Surface Book is a good $500 more expensive, significantly thicker, and significantly heavier. It's also prone to hinge flakiness with the overly clever elec

The Surface Book is a good $500 more expensive, significantly thicker, and significantly heavier. It's also prone to hinge flakiness with the overly clever electronic release mechanism. You get the nvidia GPU option if you want it, though. ipad pro is an interesting comparison but it's not just "walled or not" it's also "windowed vs. fullscreen" as the chromebook is a full windowed systems, for better or worse. A fixed hinged keyboard is a substantial difference in terms of usage capabilities as well, so I don't think these are really in that much direct competition. A more apt comparison would probably be something more like the Lenovo Yoga.