Posted on 10/06/2015 1:43:33 PM PDT by dayglored
Redmond's shoving its chips all in on this $1,500 PC
As expected, Microsoft has updated its Surface Pro fondleslab with a new model powered by Intel's latest silicon. But unexpectedly, it has also produced a laptop version of the platform that is going to make Apple sick.
"The Surface Book is the ultimate laptop," gushed Panos Panay, Microsoft's veep of Surface computing. "Ounce for ounce, it's the fastest laptop ever made – twice as fast as the MacBook Pro."
The laptop's 13.5-inch screen is detachable, and on its own acts as a tablet. The machine has two batteries and twin GPUs – a bog-standard Intel GPU in the screen and an Nvidia GeForce GPU in the base unit, and if the software can handle using both, then you've got an Alienware-grade gaming machine.
Used as a laptop, the Surface Book will give 12 hours of battery life, and just using the screen alone will have "a few hours," according to demo staff. The machine runs Intel's sixth-generation Core i5 and i7 processors, comes with 8 or 16GB of DDR5 RAM, and has options for 128, 256, 512GB, or 1TB solid state hard drives.
Also bundled in are two USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, an eight megapixel back camera, and a forward-facing five megapixel sensor that's also compatible with Microsoft Hello biometrics. It uses the same charger as the latest Surface Pro systems and has charging ports on both the screen and the base of the unit.
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>> fondleslab
Now that’s funny.
Gotta love the Brits.
Now the BIG question, since it's doubtless made to run only Windows 10:
CAN IT RUN WINDOWS 7 ???
Ok. That sounds nice.
But it’s still Windows, right?
No thanks.
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It is still a PC. It still operates on Windows.
I’ll keep my Mac.
Re: VMware. GREAT POINT!!
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