The highest-end Microsoft Surface Book is so, so expensive

Want a Surface Book with the best specifications available? You’d better take on a second job. Microsoft just announced pricing for a 1TB Surface Book with an Intel Core i7 processor. The price is a whopping $3,200 (about £2,070, about AU$4,400), which is more than double the cost of the entry-level Core i5, 128GB Surface Book ($1,499, about £978, about

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The Microsoft Surface Book will shape the future of laptops

Although Microsoft has long been known as a software company, that hasn’t stopped it from releasing some knockout hardware. Earlier this week, the Redmond-based firm set the high-bar for laptops with the Surface Book, a 13.5-inch hybrid notebook that’s the thinnest Windows 10 laptop yet. It also carries one of the highest-resolution screens in the industry as both a notebook

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Microsoft Surface Book: Genius master stroke or too little, too late

It was Microsoft’s “one more thing” moment, the very instant when Panos Panay, the company’s corporate VP for Surface computing, unveiled Microsoft’s first notebook, the Surface Book, one that it calls, the “ultimate laptop”. And it is an absolute beast of a machine, one that has a finish to match with Google’s Chromebook Pixel and Apple’s MacBook Pro series. It

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