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Microsoft Surface Book : A laptop being made - $1499, Oct 26th
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I imagine that Canadian version will be up to 3.5k. I would love this laptop but there's no way I could ever afford it.
It is a 1TB SSD, according to the tech specs on the site
EDIT: oh how wrong I am, turns out the 512GB is 3.5k already. I'm assuming the 1TB one would be 4.1K
TurtleSnatcher
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Canadian 512gb is already 3.5k......
Technosteve
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Is there a way to get winfows 7 running on this thing. I dont like windows 8 or 10
BeforeU
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Yes but you would be an idiot to buy this and put W7 on it. but that's another story.
According to reddit the dGPU is based on 940m with 1GB VRAM GDDR5.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3p4ht6/analysis_of_surface_book_gpu/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/3p4ht6/analysis_of_surface_book_gpu/
BeforeU
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fuck, that sucks.
ThoseDeafMutes
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I'm stunned any of you expected more than a 950 tbh. 940 would only be slightly disappointing. Gaming perf on a 970m would probably be horribly crippled by the ulv cpu in the clip board. Its a bottleneck issue as much as it is a cost / battery one.
BeforeU
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Why? I assumed something between 950 and 960. This is even below that.
Still curious to see the benchmarks and how it compares to MacBook pro's spec.
Speedy Blue Dude
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Would that be able to run MineCraft?
ThoseDeafMutes
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Integrated runs minecraft well enough, this would murder it.
Beyond 950 level, only having 1gb would be a serious perf issue for some applications. Finding out it was a 1gb gpu, and knowing that these always have weak cpus implied probably a 950 at the upper end.
Robobandit
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940m is disappointing, but honestly it would have been less disappointing if there hadn't been that crap about it being based on the 960m.
940 is much more realistic considering the form factor.
940 is much more realistic considering the form factor.
Yep.
They're portable, lightweight, often with you, and take good photos with a large viewfinder. When I had a crappy smartphone I often used my iPad for photos. I still use it for photos around the house.
By the way, I have a selfie stick, and I love it
neogaffer1
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compared to my current card
meh. the card i have right now ran maxed out mgsv at 900p30 w/ dips for comparison.
unless you have a potato from 2011 your phone will take better pictures than any tablet.
meh. the card i have right now ran maxed out mgsv at 900p30 w/ dips for comparison.
unless you have a potato from 2011 your phone will take better pictures than any tablet.
I have played around with this thing at a Microsoft Store near me and it's kinda off. I was really excited when I heard about it. I know it's a hybrid but it seems really top heavy. The keyboard is great but it's also quite hollow. Basically you don't really get a great since of balance when you use it. For example as I moved it back and forth the top would kind of wobble and it made me anxious like I was going to snap it off. The way the hinge works it seems like it's taking all the weight of the top. I know this sounds weird but you have to use it to really get it. I think the base is a fantastic idea. I just wish they would improve the design a bit with more weight distribution.
BeforeU
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Honestly I just wanted Quad Core i7 and 16GB RAM.
The more I think about it, the more I feel like MS have made slight compromise here again to keep the screen detachable. I truly want a powerful surface book which has same power as Dell XPS 15 (announced last week) and MacBook Pro 15".
I tried SB today at store and hollyfuck, this thing is dead gorgeous and I can even open it with one hand. Hinge is pretty incredible. Only complain was the screen is bit wobbly. Specially if you will be using it in bus or something that moving constantly, other than that no issue.
lol no way in hell I will have to disagree here. Its wobbly as I said but in no way in any shape it felt like it will snap off. This thing screams premium. When you put the screen on or take it off you get that strong feeling.
Kibbles
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Hmm I might just go with the base model or SP4 then. Holding off my purchase for a couple months anyway, so plenty of time to decide, but that's disappointing.
That's just plain false. An iPad Air 2 has a similar camera to an iPhone 5s.
Your absolutely right 100 percent. I was being a bit dramatic. I'm a paranoid techie when it comes to that stuff. Its a beautiful design. I too want it to have the power of an a 15" MBP. That's what I have. I'm an Apple user and I'm continually impressed by Microsoft's hardware. They're destroying Apple in terms of innovation. A few more iterations and I could see myself jumping ship. iPads are just useless to me. Mark my words, iOS and OSX are going to merge at some point. The survival of the iPad is clinging to this. Look at the iPad Pro.
Coming back with the same question...will this run FFXIV at max settings.
neogaffer1
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fine, unless you have a two-year old phone and a brand new iPad your phone will take better pictuers than your tablet. Happy?
maybe at 720p30
ThoseDeafMutes
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compared to my current card
meh. the card i have right now ran maxed out mgsv at 900p30 w/ dips for comparison.
Keep in mind it's 1GB GDDR5 instead of 2GB DDR3, so less memory, but faster. It has correspondingly higher memory bandwidth and the other stats are similar but not quite identical. We will need to see SB benches, especially since we can't guarantee that 940ms have been benched with the same CPU.
:/ meh. Cancelling pre-order. Maybe they'll step it up for the next one..
sheesh. i literally just bought a new maxed out iMac for the same amount
It can run a lot of higher end games at low-middle settings. Minecraft will probably be fine.
Xan Kriegor
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I love how everyone hates the dGPU now but during the reveal everyone was impressed with the livedemos of the 3D rendering and that video editing software. It's a custom GPU. Wait for impressions and real life benchmarks.
neogaffer1
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i don't
Yeah, that's what I'm waiting on. The benchmarks and such should be hitting next week, one would think.
neogaffer1
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TyphoonStruggle
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Custom or not, if it has the same number of CUDA cores as the 940M and 1 GB of GDDR5 we can already get a feel for the bottleneck.
neogaffer1
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naw, there are dozens of laptops that can fit that. this is a great laptop for the gamer who already has a console and only wants to play the handful of pc games they couldn't get on consoles (stuff like cs:go, LoL, etc.)
There are plenty of incredible desktop setups you can get for $1500 that would more than fit that criteria!
It's really not a great laptop for that specific use.
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