In practice, all that power means everything about the Book 2 runs super smoothly. It's not that it does things better than the MacBook Pro, but that thanks to the pen input and detachable screen, it can just do more things. Microsoft makes a lot of noise about how powerful the Book 2 is, but that's mostly about its versatility.
That's hardly surprising: Most premium computers use similar parts to similar effect. In most performance metrics it's roughly in line with the latest MacBook Pro, which is to say it's extremely fast and up to almost any task. I ran the Book 2 through a battery of benchmarks and tests, and it came out looking like… a high-end laptop. The Surface Book 2 starts at $1,500, and the rig I'm running costs $3,300. Normally I wouldn't mention these specs, because normally spec lists don't really matter. Inside, it has Intel's brand-new 8th generation Core i7 processor, 16 gigs of RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 discrete graphics with 6 gigs of GDDR5 graphics memory, a terabyte of storage. The review unit Microsoft sent me is the top-of-the-line Surface Book 2: 15-inch, 3240x2160 display. Me? I've mostly just been using it to play games. And Microsoft hopes that by letting you use it any way you want-with a keyboard, with a pen, even with your finger-you'll get even more done. It's for people doing computational photography, inventing the algorithms of the future, and making wacky augmented-reality apps. It's for people who work in Photoshop and Premiere and CAD. This is a serious computer for serious business.
If anything, the Surface Book is closer to a hybrid of a laptop and a desktop PC, as Microsoft tries to pack as much power as possible into a (relatively) portable package. Sure, the screen detaches in case you feel like carrying around a giant pane of glass. The Surface Book 2, on the other hand, is really only one thing: a laptop. In reality, the Surface is all those things-and none of them. It's powerful as a laptop, lighter than air. It's a tablet that can replace your laptop. It's the one device for everything in your life. Even Microsoft itself has never quite known what to call them. Microsoft's Surface devices defy easy description.
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