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this is harold hello harold has a hard time making decisions i wasn't sure so i

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bought everything lttstore.com that's why harold got the surface book

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3. it's a laptop it's a tablet and it's as powerful as a desktop

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well yes but actually

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no the surface book has been promising to

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be the do everything device since 2015

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but the core of the design hasn't been updated since

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well 2015. and i'm just not sure if it still holds

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up five years later who do you think you are microsoft Intel

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in 2015 i called this the first truly premium Windows machine and it does have

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a lot still going for it the feel of the device is exceptional

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and despite its all all-metal not to mention rigid chassis it somehow feels

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soft to the touch the problem is that the bezels trackpad size and the overall

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design haven't aged well compared to the macbook pro 16 or the new dell xps 15.

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of course that ignores the surface book 3's classic party trick

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that never gets old in theory this is it

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the best of both worlds need to quickly go and take some notes

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grab the tablet and the pen which oh just

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so delightfully magnetically attached to the side and you're good to go need more

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power well additional battery capacity bring it up to nearly 12 and a half

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hours in our tests and a dedicated

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graphics card are stored in the base along with what we describe as

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fairly decent i o the dual usb type a's

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are welcome although we do wish they would have done something about the

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incredibly poorly positioned headphone jack one notable i o improvement though

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is that the surface dock accessory now supports dual 4k 60hz displays if you

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don't mind shelling out for that back to the tablet releasing though

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honestly on the previous models i didn't find it very useful because i'm an

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impatient kind of person for the tablet mode to be useful for me the detach

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needs to be quicker than just unplugging the power mouse and display

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that i have connected to the surface book at my desk and this is finally the

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case on the 13 and a half inch model the tablet releases twice as fast and on the

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15 inch it releases three times faster

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maybe more importantly though it does so consistently

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previously you'd have to close down any apps that were using the dedicated GPU

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whereas now apps are automatically switched over to the integrated GPU

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without you having to think about it for the most part it's pretty slick to

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really put the surface book 3's versatility to the test though we came

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up with an idea alex our laptop reviews editor recently had an unfortunate

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failure in his desktop and it's actually broken right now so

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why don't you try replacing him with this for a bit for the first part of his job writing

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the surface book 3 is exceptional both

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microsoft's book and laptop products are equipped with the killer one-two punch

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productivity combo of an incredible keyboard and a 3x2 display that back in

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2015 microsoft whooped the competition

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with since then though dell and hp have

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really improved their keyboards and apple has well they've really really

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improved their keyboard so the surface book is now an a plus keyboard in a

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crowded field of a or a plus keyboards instead of a clear winner as for the

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display the 3240 by 2160 resolution

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monitor is essentially a 4k display with

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the sides chopped off and i gotta say it

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still looks really sharp and because it's a laptop and a tiny screen i didn't

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miss the extra pixels at all now you are giving up the vivid colors and the

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perfect blacks of the OLED display options on some of its competitors but

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you are gaining what is still the best touch and pen input available on Windows

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like you can probably barely see it but there's just a tiny bit of spring in the

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pen tip that gives it a really close to pen on paper feel

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instead of you know pen on glass like

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what you get from hp or dell's pens

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another area that microsoft has lost ground compared to the competition

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though is the trackpad when the microsoft precision touchpad drivers

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were first introduced on the surface pro 2 they were a statement they said hey

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hello guys how have you still not managed to figure

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this out well whatever we did it for you

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mic drop out it was the first time we'd used a

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Windows touch pad that was comparable to the precision and feel of apple's

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offerings since then microsoft's precision drivers have become available

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on so many more devices though that microsoft no longer has enhanced

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precision going for them and despite having ample space to grow the surface

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book still comes with a tasting menu size track pad when i could get the full

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meal on the new xps 15. make sure that you're subscribed by the way we're gonna

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have a full review of that coming soon while we're on the topic of things that microsoft made that was awesome just for

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everyone else to do it better Windows hello facial recognition

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it is awesome i love it and it returns to the surface book 3 right there baby

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but it's also now available on other devices in a super slim module allowing

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for much smaller bezels where microsoft is leading the competition though is in

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the inclusion of a 1080p webcam that

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means that on video calls you will actually look like a person instead of a

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smeary mess of pixels thank you microsoft now i have someone credible to

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point to when i yell at other laptop manufacturers about their crummy webcams

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this really does look good doesn't it on to specs the 13.5 inch and 15 inch

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models get up to gtx 1650 and 1660 ti

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options respectively both are max q variants but that's still plenty of

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oomph for mid-tier gaming as long as you turn the resolution down the one we were

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really curious about though is the new surface for business version with a

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quadro rtx 3000. for professionals whose

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programs require the quadro drivers this one is a no-brainer and for those that

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also enjoy gaming remember this is the same tu-106 chip as the rtx 2070 just

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with reduced shaders and clocks to bring the TDP down to 80 watts in our testing

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the GPU handled our typical solidworks models well and even managed our 8 000

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part lego millennium falcon benchmark huge shout out to ryan cole for this

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ridiculous model by the way the GPU also held up well in gaming even if we can't

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say the same about the display this thing was clearly optimized for picture

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quality and not for response time although as long as you're a city

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skylines or anno player rather than a rainbow six siege fanatic you'll be fine

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otherwise just please buy something else and the CPU is

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well it's another problem the fastest model

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that you can get in the surface book 3 is the Intel core i7 1065 g7 and that's

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the same four core processor as the surface laptop three in most of our

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testing the book three was still very responsive but as the competition is

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moving to six and even eight core processors the surface book three is

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left in the dust if you plan on rendering large video projects exporting

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edited pictures running simulations or even just being careless with your

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multitasking and your junk running in the background there are just much

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faster machines out there not to mention the thermals during a blender render the

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temps got into the high 90s with core clocks dipping below 3 gigahertz

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in practice the i7 1065 g7 still feels

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more than fast enough outside of intense all-core loads but given that we don't

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need the tablet functionality that badly a more powerful CPU makes our job easier

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even when connected to a 5 gigabit Ethernet dongle and using GPU

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acceleration the poor CPU of the surface book 3 struggled to play back red

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footage from our server at 1 8 resolution that's a deal breaker for us

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even if it has no applicability to you whatsoever

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the other deal breaker for some folks is going to be the lack of serviceability

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on this machine and the lack of Thunderbolt 3. i sort of imagine this

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large overlap between people who need a quadro on their laptop and people who

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would care about things like serviceability and connectivity but

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microsoft did actually address the lack of Thunderbolt 3 quite recently

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apparently it's due to security concerns related to Thunderbolt's direct access

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to memory something that cannot be patched by software in any way and they

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use the same logic to explain why the RAM can't be removed and upgraded

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fair enough i guess so for those of you who are genuinely

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concerned that someone is going to open up your laptop while it's still powered

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on use liquid nitrogen to freeze the memory and then use a special reader to

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access the data this is the laptop for you for those of us

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who aren't the unfortunate scientist in mission impossible

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i would rather just be able to upgrade the memory on my device down the line

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and use Thunderbolt 3. which brings us to the toughest part of this review do i

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recommend the surface book three most of this time has been spent talking about

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how now five years later the competition has caught up to the book three and clearly

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microsoft needs to invest in a complete redesign in the coming years but the

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2020 book 3 is still a compelling device for the right user

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someone well basically anyone who needs the tablet function

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because no one else is going to pay that premium

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the first in our mind properly equipped config for

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this thing well for the 13 and a half inch model actually is around 2 000 us

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dollars and our quadro equipped 15 inch that weighs in at around 3 400. that's a

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tough pill to swallow but at the same time what else are you gonna get an ipad

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pro with the magic keyboard for people who need both good pen support and the

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muscle for real professional applications the surface book 3 is just

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really your only option assuming you need a bit more portability than the

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acer concept d7 for those that can live without the tablet functionality and

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want a couple more CPU cores and don't need a quadruped GPU

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hey again maybe wait for the full review of the xps 15 and 17 before pulling the

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the webcam section please if you haven't already i did i did alex i already

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