The best way I can describe it is that it looks like a snake folded into itself. Far from being just another MacBook Pro, though, the Surface Book has a style unto its own, marked by a funky-looking hinge mechanism that Microsoft calls the Fulcrum. Its magnesium casing and blunt, chiseled edges help it look the part of a $1,499 notebook, with details like a chrome Windows logo also serving to remind you just how expensive it is. A gorgeous, distinctive status symbol.Īnd what a beautiful laptop it is. The Surface Book is for people who demand a proper notebook - one that can suffice as a tablet when the occasion calls for it.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. The Surface Book is for people who were never open to the idea of balancing a Surface tablet in their laps or typing on a thin Type Cover keyboard. But after years of trying to convince consumers that the Surface Pro could replace a laptop, Microsoft seems to have realized that some people don't want that they just want a laptop. That's the whole point, really: If all you cared about were feeds and speeds, you could buy yourself a Surface Pro 4 with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, and run Photoshop to your heart's content. Until you hold down a button to release the display, the Surface Book looks just like any other clamshell laptop, with a spacious keyboard and an apparently fixed screen.
And a good few minutes passed before I or anybody else in the audience realized the device had a detachable screen.
I was sitting in the auditorium where Microsoft unveiled the Surface Book.
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