It's the tablet capabilities, basically. Also the base boosting battery is a bit of a boon.
For low level gaming (League of Legends, Dota) and basic use, this will have legs.
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Microsoft Surface Book : A laptop being made - $1499, Oct 26th
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It's the tablet capabilities, basically. Also the base boosting battery is a bit of a boon.
For low level gaming (League of Legends, Dota) and basic use, this will have legs.
If you see no value in touch screen or pen input then the SB shouldn't even be a consideration.
I think most of us would have been happy to give up the pen and touch screen if it started at $1200 or so.
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Can tech gaf help me out.
I recently retired my old windows laptop it was like 10 pounds and couldn't hold a charge. I got a chromebook for basic school stuff that could hold a charge and I could easily carry around campus.
The problem: im a physics major, and apparently without telling me, they really want me to learn a lot of coding to solve problems. (Not sure if you've heard of MatLab or Mathematica, but it's stuff like that). Obviously my Chromebook won't cut it for that, so I asked my friend to help me build a desktop. My limit of how much to spend was $1000 which he told me could get me a good desktop for coding and the like (and some gaming, but that's not a priority.) but I don't really have room for a desktop with my current setup and would prefer not to get one if I could avoid it.
This caught my eye, it's is more than I wanted to spend but it would probably get the job done very well.
If you guys had any suggestions I'd really love to hear them. If it's a laptop it can't be too bulky, and it has to be pretty damn powerful.
Thanks!
I recently retired my old windows laptop it was like 10 pounds and couldn't hold a charge. I got a chromebook for basic school stuff that could hold a charge and I could easily carry around campus.
The problem: im a physics major, and apparently without telling me, they really want me to learn a lot of coding to solve problems. (Not sure if you've heard of MatLab or Mathematica, but it's stuff like that). Obviously my Chromebook won't cut it for that, so I asked my friend to help me build a desktop. My limit of how much to spend was $1000 which he told me could get me a good desktop for coding and the like (and some gaming, but that's not a priority.) but I don't really have room for a desktop with my current setup and would prefer not to get one if I could avoid it.
This caught my eye, it's is more than I wanted to spend but it would probably get the job done very well.
If you guys had any suggestions I'd really love to hear them. If it's a laptop it can't be too bulky, and it has to be pretty damn powerful.
Thanks!
Why would you even buy a Surface then? Just get a regular ultrabook like this: http://amzn.com/B00X409AN6
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Nah bro nah, might as well build yourself a much more powerful laptop for the same price or get a Mac Book or something. The high battery and tablet is the only reason I'm even considering the thing.
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should be able to, absolutely.
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So the most expensive one is 13" and is still $200 more than the most expensive Macbook Pro, which is 15", and the cheapest is also $200 more than the cheapest Macbook Pro. And they say Mac's are overpriced.
It has a dedicated Geforce GPU, however MS are being a bit coy with what kind of Geforce GPU is inside. So it's hard to determine at the moment just how much gaming performance you'll be able to get out of it.
They did mention League of Legends, so there's that.
Yeah that's just too expensive, to be honest.
Netherscourge
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Spec-wise, it sounds a lot like this recently announced Laptop from ASUS:
http://www.computerpoweruser.com/ar...rst-water-cooled-gaming-laptop?DSA_GooglePaid
-minus the huge-ass Watercooling add-on thingy.
I wonder how HOT those Surface Books get when gaming?
http://www.computerpoweruser.com/ar...rst-water-cooled-gaming-laptop?DSA_GooglePaid
-minus the huge-ass Watercooling add-on thingy.
I wonder how HOT those Surface Books get when gaming?
Apple MacBook Pro 13inch with Retina : $2,199.00
Microsoft Surface Book - 512GB / Intel Core i7 $2,699.00
This is a rough comparison using similar high-end configurations between the two laptops. Prices gathered from USA Apple and Microsoft stores.
Need more info on Surface's NVidia GPU and intel processors
- 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display (2560x1600)
- 3.1GHz Dual-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.4GHz
- 16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM
- 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage
- Intel Iris Graphics 6100
- Force Touch trackpad
- Backlit Keyboard
- Up to 12 hours iTunes movie playback
Microsoft Surface Book - 512GB / Intel Core i7 $2,699.00
- 13.5-inch PixelSense™ touchscreen display (3000 x 2000) resolution
- i7 (unknown)
- 16GB RAM
- 512 SSD
- Intel HD Graphics (Built in) and NVidia GPU (unknown)
- Glass Multitouch Trackpad
- Backlit keyboard
- Surface Pen (included)
- Up to 12 hours of video playback
This is a rough comparison using similar high-end configurations between the two laptops. Prices gathered from USA Apple and Microsoft stores.
Need more info on Surface's NVidia GPU and intel processors
I don't want too see Australian prices ��
This made me laugh. What did you expect? All my friends in natural sciences or engineering do little else.
It certainly cost less, but I doubt the Skylake MBP will cost much less, knowing Apple the price will be pretty much the same, comparing hardware there are things we know about the SB that MBP will not include (99% sure about it) like detachable screen, touch, and pen technology integrated with a pen obviously, so the price is high on SB but not really unreasonable, also all previews are talking about a premium product that looks and feel premium which is something I expect from Apple, but not really from the kind of Acer, HP and many others OEMs
TheLostBigBoss
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jesus fucking christ
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This is also 50% more powerful than a Macbook Pro 13" and can go convertable. I'd believe the performance claim, as it's running on a just-released chipset and a discrete GPU (the 13" MBP doesn't offer a dedicated gpu). It should run circles around the current generation MBP 13". Until the MBP's get a Skylake chipset update in the Spring.
I see no scenario in which the MBP increases in price with the new chipset. None at all. They may offer a more expensive option with a dedicated GPU that is similar in price to this Surface Book at that time, however. But tends to be easier to justify for Mac users because its a different market entirely.
This is actually something I'm wondering myself. If MS comes out with the SurfaceBook 2 next year with a better GPU/processor - would they allow people to buy the base separately if hey wanted to upgrade (assuming that would work)? That would be pretty freaking awesome.
dGPU prices are damn hight but I after using Macbook Airs and 13" MBPs for years now I haven't had the option of a dGPU anyway, so... It would be nice though if I could upgrade the keyboard part later to a dGPU, I wonder if Microsoft would sell it separatel.
speak for yourself please. And Apple Macbook (the 12" one port thing) starts at $1,300 lol at wanting a SurfaceBook for $1,200, you were never going to be happy
speak for yourself please. And Apple Macbook (the 12" one port thing) starts at $1,300 lol at wanting a SurfaceBook for $1,200, you were never going to be happy
Dreams-Visions
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what? it uses a AAA battery. Estimated 1 year before needing to replace the battery.
It has a fan.
yes? this isn't the thread for that.
I meant the MBP price will be pretty much the same as it is now, not the same as the SB
Megalosaro
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How well cam this play shogun 2
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Thanks for the help!
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Looks cool but I think for most people the SP4 is a better device.
Microsoft design. They bragged about their keyboard and trackpad and I'm sure it's better than the oems.
AAAA battery
That makes more sense. I guess sweclockers misheard them, gonna check some more sites.
Can't even find the 1TB price. The top end I see is this:-
$2,699.00
i7 Intel Skylake Processor
Nvidia Geforce GPU
16GB RAM
512mb SSD
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it cost less than the MacBook if it didn't have a pen or touch screen.
longdi
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meh, that is a little misleading from the presentation...
Poodlestrike
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Do you really need both of your kidneys?
Dreams-Visions
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the 1TB option is for the SP4 only, fam.
only a little? be real. we got played like idiots.
That would be completely pointless
fluffydelusions
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What's the gpu
Mr. Giggles
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Wow, I might actually buy this.
Reminds me of the first microsoft tablet PC's re-imagined for this generation:
Reminds me of the first microsoft tablet PC's re-imagined for this generation:
Just get a Macbook and slap Windows on it.
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Mmm...really cool in concept and it looks like it'll be a super legit piece of hardware, but the price premium for all the cool bits is just too much for me at the moment. I do hope Microsoft sticks at this though. If we can get them and Apple in a sustained back and forth on premium laptops then we could end up some interesting places.
That said, the specs are still pretty damn vague and could still disappoint.
That said, the specs are still pretty damn vague and could still disappoint.
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