Surface Book Discussion Thread

But, what if your house isn't
worth $3,199.00, then what?

 

So, whose gonna go first?

 

Sell a kidney?

 

A little sticker shocked at this point. I might opt for a 460 now TBH. While the engineering is amazing on the SB, I do a lot of my work taking notes (like how meso described). Onenote on one side and the other side the research article/paper/textbook.

I really am having second thoughts on this matter, and yes I have funds to support it, but this is not a small decision.

 

Ha, the scary thing is the thought did cross my mind. I already cancelled my i7 512GB order to see how this all plays out. I also had to cancel a Canvas Z order at one point. Honestly sometimes I just wish I was poor so I could make more intelligent decisions

But I want to make sure it's everything they say it is. I gotta lot of cash going out right now with tech since I'm in the middle of making a teen hang out in the basement which includes a movie theater complete with huge 4k TV and a banging sound system, and just went over budget with 5 theater recliners (go big or go home). So anyway if I do spring on a SB I want to feel good about it.

 

Lots of specifications are coming out:

dGPU: http://www.reddit.com/r/surface/comments/3p2yrj/_/

"alright, got some decent info. GPUz was a bust, it wanted an admin PW to run the .exe.

But the nvidia control panel had good stuff:

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro, 64-bit

DirectX version: 12.0

GPU processor: GeForce GPU

Driver version: 354.15

Direct3D API version: 12

Direct3D feature level: 11_0

CUDA Cores: 384

Core clock: 954 MHz

Memory data rate: 5010 MHz

Memory interface: 64-bit

Memory bandwidth: 40.08 GB/s

Total available graphics memory: 5081 MB

Dedicated video memory: 1024 MB GDDR5

System video memory: 0 MB

Shared system memory: 4057 MB

Video BIOS version: 82.08.4D.00.01

IRQ: Not used

Bus: PCI Express x4 Gen3

Device Id: 10DE 134B 00081414

Part Number: 2702 0001

And here's the Web-GL benchmark run from edge.

http://imgur.com/8GkDnUh

...which is looking like an unreliable number (edge is terrible at this apparently) My i7 SP3 gets 46.5k run from firefox."

Hard drive: https://surfacebookinfo.blogspot.my/2015/10/exclusive-review-of-microsoft-surface.html?m=1

Uses a Samsung NVMe MZFLV SSD. Sound is, as expected, from a Realtek integrated chip.

 

$3199 = $4132.63 in Canadian buckaroos.

$4132.63

Given that the stylus is the only reason I'd even consider looking at such a device, for that price it had better work perfectly, without even the slightest hint of annoyance.

No way would I pay four thousand dollars for N-Trig. Just the memory of N-Trig's past would be enough to sour my day, let alone its current not-there-yet state of being.

I'd rather get one of those 27" Cintiqs, (non-touch). I could use the money I save on a Lenovo Mix 700, be full Wacom EMR on both devices, and still come out ahead.

Of course, Lenovo is a giant question mark in my mind these days...

Maybe just stick with the Cintiq and bank the rest...

 

These are similar to an NVIDIA GT 650M/ GT750M.

 

Yea, I wonder if the separate thermal headroom (which is not an insignificant factor) is going to be the main performance advantage it has over iris graphics.

 

That's interesting - other than it is a beautiful piece of hardware with tablet and laptop - totally technolust-worthy, what will this have over the performance of the 2014-2015 Dell XPS 15 with quad core i7 and GT750 GPU with 2gb video ram - which is readily available as a Dell refurb with one year warranty for under $1500.

Am I missing something here...I know its not fair to compare a brand new, super hot tabtop (or is it a laplet because its a laptop first) to a year old refurb, but $1700 savings is 1700...