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a great job at preventing the laptop from tipping over even on a bed or similar soft surface unfortunately the hinge doesn t tilt back very far compared to a typical notebook the photo above is as wide as it opens i assume this is the precise angle that the hinge can prevent tipping any more and i m sure the notebook position would be unstable i did find actually drawing and painting in this position a little less ideal only because the screen is a lot farther away from my face than i m used to it s still a useful position because it requires the least setup and doesn t require you bring any additional hardware with you as a tent it works great as well you lose the ability to access the power and volume buttons which are on the top of the tablet typically not to mention the included keyboard but this is quite stable and the hinge stays in any position you can set the notebook to the problem of course is you need to bring an external keyboard with you of some kind or an onscreen keypad i find i only really need this position if i m going to be working with the pen all day in one specific location as a creative canvas microsoft s definition it works ok its quite heavy to hold and the position is too flat in my opinion to use on a desk you can of course prop it up with something in this position but the issue again is that you have to have something else around to do this i ve tried using the included stand with microsoft s wedge keyboard it works good as a stand but if you actually are drawing on it it doesn t hold its position this is probably the config that i d use the least but its a nice option on an animation table for instance as a clipboard it s fantastic its extremely light weight and i found drawing with it in my hands fantastic far more intuitive and interactive than even a cintiq of course using this mode makes it hard to use a keyboard since at least one hand is holding the tablet i found resting it on the edge of the desk and propping it up with your body worked quite well for this situation there are issues though in that there are no usb ports on the clipboard the only port you get is the surfaceconnect charging port and the headphone jack this means you must you a wireless keyboard or mouse or use microsoft s surface dock to add ports onto the clipboard in this configuration lastly the battery life is not great at longest 4 hours but it is possible to charge the clipboard on its own the position of where the surfaceconnect port is in a little bit of an awkward position but usable i ve also found using an onscreen touch keyboard like tablet pro makes using it in clipboard or canvas mode much more viable i was able to figure out a touch palette that works for me in photoshop for 95 of what i do and doesn t take up much screen space it s slower than using a full keyboard but it does work if people are interested i m willing to share the settings for the pallette i created for photoshop keyboard and trackpad the keyboard is excellent to type on the keys are a tad noisy but have a great travel to them many reviews have said this is one of the better keyboards on a notebook and i agree the backlighting works well the keys turn off after a set period and i can t seem to find how to adjust this timing personally i d like them on all the time the fn key works great as well as it s a toggle not a modifier key meaning you don t hold down on it to switch the function key s function it s unfortunate there aren t keys for screen brightness edit apparently there is a shortcut to change the screen brightness it s just not labelled on the keyboard it s fn delete and fn backspace trackpad works ok been hearing that some people have issues i don t really like using trackpads full stop though the biggest thing i notice is that it does feature a right click but doesn t have a visual representation of this zone nor does it have anything to indicate where it is by feel initially the trackpad felt a little buggy but i think microsoft has addressed this in firmware updates battery life the battery life seems excellent so far microsoft has put two batteries in this unit one in the screen and one in the base and thus there s plenty of juice to go around of course the type of things i demand from a device like this can vary widely but it does seem possible to get 8 10 hours battery life from this device microsoft went with some pretty big batteries and low power components and the results show here there currently is a pretty major bug with the surface book drawing power even while the laptop is asleep microsoft has committed to fixing this already however and should arrive early in the new year there have been quite a few post release fixes to improve this thing on the one hand its good they have fixed many of them quickly on the other hand i don t think it should have been released with these issues at all the clipboard tablet only mode has pretty low battery life something like 3 4 hours enough to get you through a life drawing session but you ll have to keep an eye on power consumption its possible to plug the power cord into the clipboard itself and run the tablet off of a c i do notice that the magnet in the surface connect port which is used to power the notebook is a little less strong than i d like plugged into the clipboard or having the notebook on a bed sofa where you re shifting the position of the the computer frequently unhooks its from power quite easily it takes 1 45 2 hrs to fully charge the battery i believe the models with the nvidia gpu come with a larger 65w charger so it will go a fair bit slower if you don t order one of these models it s also very convenient that the charger brick has a usb port built in unfortunately this is only for power it doesn t provide an additional data port which it should there is a dock that goes through the same cable that provides video ethernet and usb ports i do wish it could have a foldable plug option like apple s laptops do as well for maximum portability the charger also has a really short length between the brick and the actual power plug making the setup sometimes quite difficult and certainly less convenient for the most part the battery in the keyboard is used first then the clipboard screen it doesn t fully down the battery to 0 in the base though it starts sapping power from the screen at around 40 for me the most i ve been able to get is 14 hours of battery life which is basically just keeping the screen on and occasionally refreshing a webpage more usual under an actual workload is 7 8 hours i definitely was able to get through a full work day on battery performance overall performance is quite good microsoft has done a smart thing here by creating a tablet that is extremely thin and light and offloading the nvidia gpu into the keyboard base that way if you need the extra horsepower you can just dock it into its keyboard but if you want a handheld drawing solution it works great as that as well while i think some of the specs are underpowered for its price point bottom line is that the performance of this cpu and gpu are good enough to help you get real work done this is definitely a balance between portability battery life weight and cpu power and i think microsoft s leaned towards the former end of the spectrum than the latter it does make some sense because the marketability of an even larger tablet is completely untread territory so focusing on a balance here makes it more widely appealing initially i ran into daily crashes with the unit however microsoft has been releasing system firmware patches every 2 weeks and it now seems rock solid also the fans do make noise under load it doesn t personally bother me but when you push this thing it is definitely audible programs that work almost every program i use on a regular basis works well on the surface book with the caveat that you re running it on a mobile device so it can t compete with desktop performance the full adobe cc suite works well some apps like bridge haven t been updated for ui scaling but performance is good across the board i d recommend tweaking the geforce settings for photoshop for better pen response but everything else seemed great out of the box corel painter 2016 works great set it up for rts and windows multitouch substance painter 1 3 0 seems to work quite well ui doesn t scale though and therefore all on screen elements are tiny zbrush 4r7 works great too as long as you tweak the geforce settings mudbox 2016 works fantastic mari 3 0v1 has a laggy interface and small interface elements see above will make it less than ideal to use on the surface book currently will experiment with this more but my initial impressions are that it might be too heavy of a program for the surface book to handle unless you re dealing with less complicated meshes maya and c4d seemed to work as expected houdini works but has small ui elements other than some high end games i haven t run into anything that was unusable on the surface book accessories microsoft only ships a few accessories for the surface book the most important one being the surface dock the main reason i like the dock is that it routes every connection port through the charging port on the laptop you can also plug this connector into just the clipboard this allows you to hook up extra monitors and peripherals to the surface through just one cable which for your permanent office seems like a much nicer setup i especially like setting it up in clipboard mode this allows you to be playing video on a second monitor while holding the tablet in your hands for instance the dock features 4 usb headphone jack ethernet jack and two monitors it prevents you from being able to use the displayport on the laptop itself so dual monitors the laptop itself is the limit its quite heavy and is made up of a lot of parts its not really meant to be portable the connector feels a lot more robust than the surface connect port on the 65w charger the magnet is stronger i think i noticed that the dock requires newer active dvi or hdmi adapters which i didn t have they re inexpensive but it sucks not to be able to use ones i already had the passive adapter works on the laptop itself but not the surface dock all sorts of visual glitches show up if you don t use the right adapter i ve read there s a possibility that microsoft will fix this other than that microsoft has some alternative pen nibs and spare pens to tell you that s about it though everything else you need is in the box overall impressions pros largest screen of and tablet based computer right now thanks to 3 2 ratio very bright screen decent color balanced to the srgb spec not adobe rgb basically no throttling on the cpu up to date and fastest possible low voltage intel cpu nvidia gpu option i personally wouldn t consider the surface book models without the gpu very large battery excellent keyboard much more usable in a range of conditions as it is more like a traditional notebook computer but can take on tablet duties tablet clipboard is extremely light meaning hand held drawing is ideal it weighs pretty much the same as an ipad pro but has a larger screen cons best configurations get very expensive cheaper configs without a discrete gpu are not at all worth getting lack of built in kickstand on the tablet portion make the tablet itself less flexible some sort of accessory stand would be great both cpu and gpu are more like high end ultrabook specs not high end mobile workstation specs a mobile workstation with a cintiq is a more powerful combo if you can deal with the extra pieces but those who don t need pen input are really better off with a desktop replacement type notebook you ll get more for your money keyboard and trackpad are completely unusable separated from the tablet why not allow it to be wireless cannot be used as a tablet display hooked up to another computer so once the computer is obsolete so is the screen would have liked to see an iris pro in the clipboard for this price point especially on i7 models microsoft needs to do more to make sure text is not super tiny give us an option to scale up interfaces somehow not the hugest fan of where the power and volume buttons are personally i d like to have the power button especially be recessed has some software related bugs that microsoft needs to work out recommended configs 2 4ghz dual core i5 6300u 8gb ram intel hd 520 nvidia gpu 256gb storage 1899 2 6ghz dual core i7 6600u 16gb ram intel hd 520 nvidia gpu 512gb storage 2699 what about the alternatives on the market surface pro 4 excellent built in kickstand on the tablet intel iris gpu on the core i7 models is actually quite good apparently faster than the surface book s or vaio z canvas integrated graphics good value overall if you don t need the larger screen and nvidia gpu from the surface book the surface pro 4 is a great cheaper option cpu is heavily throttled to fit a power and heat profile this means even plugged in if you re pushing the tablet the computer will hold back the cpu and gpu so as to not overheat or draw too much power more info here type covers are thin and portable but dont provide a fantastic typing or trackpad experience they are definitely usable just not as great as a real keyboard small ish screen using it more like a traditional laptop is still a little awkward works best on a desk specifically the unit is heavier than the clipboard on the surface book with a smaller screen size so as a tablet i d say the surface book is better in hand other than the clipboard s meager battery life has some software related bugs that microsoft needs to work out these are pretty much the same bugs that exist on the surface book and microsoft has been very good at fixing these recommended configs custom config 2 4ghz dual core i5 2 4ghz core i5 6300u intel hd 520 16gb ram 256gb storage 1499 2 2ghz dual core i7 6650u 16gb ram iris pro 540 graphics 256gb storage 1799 vaio z canvas has a quad core i7 so cpu is much faster fastest cpu i ve ever seen on a tablet form factor with the exception of the axiotron modbook pro x which isn t commercially available and is exorbitantly priced has a built in kickstand that is designed for drawing on its really well designed so long as you re using it on a table keyboard is usable separated from the unit itself has better color accuracy balanced to the adobe rgb spectrum than the surface book although screen is significantly less bright has unobtrusive programmable buttons that don t make the device bigger unlike the cintiq companion s screen is cramped about the same size as the surface pro best configurations get very expensive really ought to have had a proper discrete gpu i think this is a major component holding back the performance of this unit kickstand and keyboard design make it very awkward to use as a traditional laptop recommended config 2 2ghz quad core i7 16gb ram iris pro 5200 graphics 512gb storage 2599 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