Microsoft Surface Book Thread

jonneymendoza · 13 Nov 2015 at 14:35

Official thread for MS surface book talk

Cosimo · 13 Nov 2015 at 14:38

^^^ Ta

jonneymendoza · 13 Nov 2015 at 14:53

let us know what its like.

did you get the one with dedicated gpu?

Cosimo · 13 Nov 2015 at 15:00

We were looking for a new laptop and having reviewed a number of laptops/tablets decided that this ticked most of the boxes and having
the tablet made it the icing on the cake:

Model is: i7/512GB/16GB /Nvidia GPU

It has superb build quality and the screen is just brilliant. That hinge is barely noticeable.

Just going through the setup and it's gone into windows update for new firmware and the new version of windows 10.

This is going to take a while!

jonneymendoza · 13 Nov 2015 at 15:05

pff that mouse. you should be ashamed attaching a cruddy mouse on such a sexy machine!

Montala · 13 Nov 2015 at 15:22

jonneymendoza said:
pff that mouse. you should be ashamed attaching a cruddy mouse on such a sexy machine!

... perhaps you could add either a wireless or a Bluetooth one?

Nutella33 · 13 Nov 2015 at 18:24

Looks great!

Still don't know what the GPU actually is yet? How does it cope?

Macro · 14 Nov 2015 at 16:26

Had a play with one - the screen quality is incredible and the tablet portion when detached is surprisingly light, in particular when you consider it's a Skylake Core i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Nvidia GPU is custom but thought to be roughly 940m (ish) so Ok, but not aimed at gamers.

Cosimo · 15 Nov 2015 at 13:59

A look at the internals:

Cosimo · 15 Nov 2015 at 14:15

Macro said:
Had a play with one - the screen quality is incredible and the tablet portion when detached is surprisingly light, in particular when you consider it's a Skylake Core i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Nvidia GPU is custom but thought to be roughly 940m (ish) so Ok, but not aimed at gamers.

Yes the screen is incredible, is extremely bright with great colours and contrast. It is light for its size:

It feels much lighter then the Samsung Note 12.2. I love the 3:2 aspect ratio.

These screens are shipped calibrated and cover 99% of sRGB and 75% of Adobe RGB. A bonus as I will be using Photoshop and Premier on this.

Still got to load it with all my stuff and will then give a brief review.

jonneymendoza · 16 Nov 2015 at 16:12

Cosimo said:
Yes the screen is incredible, is extremely bright with great colours and contrast. It is light for its size:

It feels much lighter then the Samsung Note 12.2. I love the 3:2 aspect ratio.

These screens are shipped calibrated and cover 99% of sRGB and 75% of Adobe RGB. A bonus as I will be using Photoshop and Premier on this.

Still got to load it with all my stuff and will then give a brief review.

looks wicked mate

Cosimo · 17 Nov 2015 at 08:56

jonneymendoza said:
looks wicked mate

It is even more wicked when you can do this on your tablet:

Finally set up now.

bledd · 17 Nov 2015 at 11:51

The only thing I don't like the look of is the trackpad, I want obvious right/left buttons.

One nice looking unit though.

Cosimo · 17 Nov 2015 at 12:10

bledd. said:
The only thing I don't like the look of is the trackpad, I want obvious right/left buttons.

One nice looking unit though.

You don't need buttons with its gesture support. It is high resolution, very precise and made from glass. I didn't think the a trackpad could be this good and easy to use.

Some detail:

https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7232/surface-book-tip-master-the-touchpad

Rilot · 17 Nov 2015 at 12:41

I really want to try the trackpad out on the Surface Book. One of the things that keeps me with Apple MacBooks is that the trackpads are just so much better than anything I've used on a Windows machine. It's a real shame that most companies still can't get trackpads right even on their most expensive machines.
If the Book has a trackpad as good as the MacBook Pro I may very well get one.

413x · 18 Nov 2015 at 02:02

Really thinking of ditching my entire desktop and HTpc and getting one of these and an xbox one!

Cosimo · 18 Nov 2015 at 08:55

The dock arrived this morning:

Cosimo · 18 Nov 2015 at 13:08

Impressed by Windows Hello facial recognition as it works in dim light and doesn't mind me wearing reading glasses.

Puzzled · 18 Nov 2015 at 16:01

How's the weight balance when connected to the keyboard base?

Tried a few 2in1's but they always seem top heavy

Cosimo · 19 Nov 2015 at 06:37

New firmware update this morning:

The following update will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 11/18/2015” within the Windows Update History..

•Surface UEFI update (v88.870.770.0) improves system stability.
•Surface Management Engine update (v1.0.0.1183) provides touch optimizations.
•Precise Touch Device driver update (v1.1.0.217) provides touch optimizations.
•Management Engine Interface driver update (v11.0.0.1172) provides touch optimizations.
•Surface Touch Servicing ML driver update (v1.0.36.1) provides touch optimizations.
•Microsoft Surface ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery driver update (v1.2.0.2) ensures correct Surface driver is installed.

Note When Surface updates are provided via the Windows Update service, they are delivered in stages to Surface customers. As a result, not every Surface will receive the update at the same time, but the update will be delivered to all devices. If you have not received the update then please manually check Windows Update later.

 **In addition, please check out the Surface Book update history page for more details on all previous updates.

Having trouble downloading or installing from Windows Update? Please try to manually download and install the update - for instructions see https://www.microsoft.com/surface/e...ntenance/install-software-updates-for-surface.

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