Pre-Order Units Of Microsoft Surface Book Online Are Now Sold Out

One aspect of the Surface Pro tablets inherited by the Surface Book is their relative chunkiness. As such, the Surface Pro 4 has the same dimensions and connectors as the Surface Pro 3.

That is insanely close to Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, which features a 12.3-inch display with a resolution of 2,736 x 1,824 pixels, lending a PPI of 267. It comprises spring-loaded wire locks, which engage or disengage electronically rather than using a flimsy lever to unclip the display. But besides all the above, the Surface Pro 4 counts as a major plus to its design, the peripheral accessories that comes with it, such as the new Type Cover and the Surface Pen, which we will talk about later on.

The Surface Book has two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot and a mini-Display Port. A proprietary Surface port is used for charging. The Galaxy S6 also has those dual curved edges. The Surface Book also comes equipped with 8GB of RAM, which can be upgraded to 16GB. According to Windows Central, different variants of the Surface Pro 3 are available on Amazon are available with either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10. The 13.5-inch screen can be docked on to the keyboard with what Microsoft calls the “Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge”. The processor on the Surface book has a maximum processing speed of 2.7GHz, which makes it significantly faster as compared to the XPS 12. Microsoft has been slow to realize the potential of this segment and was focused on licensing its Operating systems to OEMs. It also hopes that it can provide a better user experience for its Windows 10 operating system by launching hardware that is specifically created to showcase Windows 10 capability. There, any version of the Surface Pro 4 can be ordered, beginning with the model that comes with an Intel Core m3 processor and topping out with a Surface Pro 4 that comes with an Intel Core i7 processor.

The Surface Pro 4 can be purchased with your choice of an Intel Core m3, i5 or i7 processor. This means that when the tablet is docked on the keyboard, you can not change the angle of the display or use it in a portrait orientation. A pleasant bonus of this is that the front camera’s broadcasting quality should be pretty high as well, making for smooth, clean video calls.

Both the phones come with a 20MP Carl Zeiss camera, and feature liquid cooling. Face recognition software, which is smart enough to avoid being fooled by a photo, will verify that it is indeed the registered user and sign in for them.

Tablet or laptop… Microsoft corporate vice-president Panos Panay introduces the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. Still, that’s hardly something to complain about, as both machines should easily last a working day of intensive use. Even a 1TB storage option, unprecedented for a convertible, has been announced, although the price for it has not.

However, things get more professional when you’re holding an iPad Pro, which features an A9X (which is an update to the A8X chip in the iPad Air 2). For $900, most PC owners could buy a fairly powerful laptop, and that’s halfway to a Surface Book with a dedicated GPU, and just where the Spectre x360 base model resides.

However, we have a few concerns. Secondly, there’s significant overlap between the Surface Book and the new Surface Pro 4, the biggest difference seemingly amounting to which keyboard they attach to.

In this head-to-head matchup, we pit veteran laptop maker Dell against laptop newcomer Microsoft. Docking functionality is good for commuters, easily letting the Surface Pro 4 stand in as a desktop computer at the office. We’ll have to wait until 26 October, when the Surface Book launches, to see whether Microsoft’s touchscreen-heavy strategy truly pays off.