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Microsoft Surface Book

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eheath
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https://www.newschoolers.com/videos/watch/786454/The-New-Microsoft-Surface-Book

Looks like Microsoft is trying out the apple strategy for their first ever laptop; clean, sleek, fast and expensive. They make a pretty affordable model for 1499 or you can ball out with an i7, 16gb of ram and a dedicated gtx graphics card (doesnt say model, but its a mobile graphics card who cares) for 2699.

I mean, when I first watched the video I thought it was gonna be a normal laptop then BAM they pop it off the keyboard base, pretty cool that you can have a pretty high end computer into basically a tablet sized device.
Oct 8 2015 3:20AM
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eheath
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Also, dunno if any of you guys have used windows 10, I did for a few days at the NS office and honestly, its pretty legit. We're upgrading all of our windows machines at my current job (mostly servers and encoding machines) and theyre faster, more efficent, etc its awesome.
Oct 8 2015 3:22AM
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Blue_Fish
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That's a pretty sweet laptop. It's about time Microsoft upped their game in the laptop market. Full i7 processor with 16GB RAM and a dedicated graphics card in that small a package? That seems very competitive to me. And that hinge mechanism looks pretty sweet. It seems like no matter what you are able to achieve the best viewing angle all the time.

I've upgraded my machine to windows 10 and I have not had any problems with it. The majority of machines run Windows out in the wild still, Microsoft can still dominate I think with this version of Windows.
Oct 8 2015 8:49AM
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eheath
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Blue_FishThat's a pretty sweet laptop. It's about time Microsoft upped their game in the laptop market. Full i7 processor with 16GB RAM and a dedicated graphics card in that small a package? That seems very competitive to me. And that hinge mechanism looks pretty sweet. It seems like no matter what you are able to achieve the best viewing angle all the time.

I've upgraded my machine to windows 10 and I have not had any problems with it. The majority of machines run Windows out in the wild still, Microsoft can still dominate I think with this version of Windows.


Yeah it looks pretty sweet, would be interesting to see if you could hackintosh one of these fuckers, even though the price aligns with apples prices and I'm sure you can't upgrade your surface book like a MBP.
Oct 8 2015 3:18PM
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lIllI
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Could this be the first PC laptop that doesn't feel like complete shit?
Oct 8 2015 6:44PM
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cydwhit
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I lol'd when it came off the keyboard, but dang, finally a metal laptop with a form function that might make me want to use it. I still don't think I'll ever convert back over for laptops but that thing is pretty sweet!
Oct 8 2015 7:26PM
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appa
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damn i am very curious about the hinge on this baby.

gonna hopefully graduate in the spring and thinking that will be a good time to port over to a new computer once everything is said and done. this bad boy and the new surface pro 4 they announced look like good candidates.
Oct 13 2015 1:27PM
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Kooky_Lukey
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This actually makes me want to buy it. I really just wish windows would run off Unix and I would like it so much more. I love my terminal. But I'm glad to see Mac Book Pros have a real competitor now. If I didn't get my MBP last year I would've been very tempted to get this.
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