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Microsoft’s First in-house Laptop – “Surface Book”

Surface Book is Microsoft’s first in-house high-performance laptop which released yesterday, you can pre-order from here. It is power full laptop with a full sized backlit keyboard. It is lot more than a laptop, the screen is actually detachable from keyboard so it can be used as tablet.

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It has lovely magnesium body design with a hinge that folds and expands when you open the note book. The Surface Book comes with keyboard and has backlit that you feel good for typing. The track pad is glass.

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This post outlines the Key Features comparing to Apple 13.3 inch Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Surface Book Screen – 13.5” PixelSense screen

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It delivers 6 million pixels to your eyes (267 PPI).

Display comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Screen size

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Pixel Density

267 PPI

227 PPI

Resolution

3,000 X 2,000

2,560 X 1,600

 

Graphics card comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

i5: Intel HD graphics (non-GPU)

i5/i7: NVIDIA GeForce graphics (GPU) GDDR5

1GB of graphics memory

Intel Iris 6100

 

Processor comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

6th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7

from Skylake family

Processor cores

Available in both Dual-core and quad-core

Intel Core i5

It does offer core i7

Dual-core

Memory comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

8 GB/16GB

8GB/16GB

LPDDR3 SDRAM

Battery Life comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Can last for 12 hours while playing video

10 hours

 

Dimensions comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Folded Height

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Weight

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Ports comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Two USB 3.0

SD Card Reader

Surface Connect

Headphone jack

Mini display port

Two USB 3.0

Thunderbolt 2

SDXC card slot

Headphone Jack

Price comparison

Surface Book

Mac Book Pro with Retina Display

Starting price $1,499

For 128GB/8GB Core i5, Intel HD graphics configuration

$2,199 for

256GB/8GB Core i5 and Intel HD graphics

$2,799 for

256GB / 8GB Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GPU

$3,499 for

(512 GB/16GB, Core i7, NVIDIA GPU)

$1,299 MSRP

· When is it out? October 26 2015 (available for pre-order on October 7)

Microsoft claims, “this is the fastest 13-inch laptop ever made anywhere on any planet.” Microsoft says it’ll actually be twice as fast as the MacBook Pro.

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Finally you are getting the surface with keyboard Smile

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Kalyan Bandarupalli

My name is kalyan, I am a software architect and builds the applications using Microsoft .NET technologies. Here I am trying to share what I feel and what I think with whoever comes along wandering to Internet home of mine.I hope that this page and its contents will speak for me and that is the reason I am not going to say anything specially about my self here.

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