Just Got My New Surface Book With Performance Base!

Just got my new Surface Book with Performance Base!

Hey, by chance, is your laptop kind of creaky when you open it up? Does it make a crinkling-like noise near the hinge when you open it?

I got mine and I'm blown away... This is literally the no compromise device I've been waiting for. My Impressions: * You need a light tablet.... sure pop it off and have this 1.6lb little unit to casually browse at home on the couch. * You want to type... check got you covered. I do agree that the new base's keys feel a bit more spongey, but I like the feel, they also feel like they are rounded around the edges more so your fingertips fall right down into the key. * You want to game? Well, I just turned on a few games and this thing literally runs about anything at full HD resolution at 60FPS+ Tombraider running at full high settings at 60FPS plus. I even turned on TressFX and everything! * You need all day battery life? for people who do a lot of coding and text editing... or other things that really don't stress the cpu very much; I guarantee that if you are in a dim room working at low brightness this thing can get close to 20 hours. Obviously if you want to game or do more intensive things, battery life will be less time proportionally. * You want to draw? - nothing new here, but you've got the pen and its a great experience as always. All this in a small 3lb and change package.... I'm seriously giddy about this revision. That said... Downsides: * I still feel like microsoft needs to rework the rubber feet. I feel like the bottom of the base is scratching every time I set it down on a desk. It also slides very easily. * The AC adapter is larger than the original Surfacebook with dGPU. Not a big deal, but it is quite a bit bigger.

Ahh I wish they would make the performance base available separately (and compatible with my gen 1 sb)

Could you share your initial impressions. I am curious about the heat/noise. Also, is the charger any more powerful than the previous version (60W I think)?

ahhhh... its beautiful...

What's the manufacture/model of the SSD? Curious if they changed things up.

I really like the chunkier keyboard on this model. The one thing that throws me off about my Surface Book is the fact that the keyboard just feels too thin at times, like when I pick it up and move the computer to another room or switch couches. The keyboard should at least be the same thickness as the Clipboard.

Congrats! I'm curious about the screen and hinge. When you're typing or touching the screen does it wobble/rock back and forth at all? I remember trying a SB at the Microsoft store and that kind of stuck out for me as distracting.

What does Go GPU / Go RAM mean on the box?

did you upgrade from the original SB or something else? If it was the original SB, do you think it's worth it?

this thing is expensive, but is perfect, you can game on this, have many output ports, its light, you can draw, the battery lasts forever, going agressive on the gpu instead of CPU (instead of goign quad core i7), is the best idea!

What about battery life ? Is it still not optimized as it is on my SB ? Microsoft should do something to poor battery life on its products

Did they fix the light bleed on the screen? It's most noticeable when you boot it when the Surface logo is on screen. I've gotten two and they both have it in different places.

So that is the gaming/desing powerfull Surface device that everyone was waiting for... It is so sexy

From what I gather that's pretty "normal". When I bought my SurfaceBook, I had to swap it out 3 times for other issues and found the creakyness was pretty much there on all of them to various degrees.

It makes a little bit of noise when the hinge 'unfurls', but it doesn't make a creak or a squeak sound.

I would recommend a dBrand skin for the base of your SB to prevent scratching.

I'm going to get one soon. Have you played Fallout 4 with some heavier ENB mods? As long as that works I'd be happy :)

Mine generates a good amount of heat in the screen when using photoshop, but the keyboard has been extremely cool so far for me.

I tried to play the only game I play, Cities Skylines, and it performed well, but definitely got warm and the fan is pretty loud. In other situations it is dead silent.

I just picked up mine last night. I'm underwhelmed I guess. I was really excited about it, but I'm not really getting wow'd here. * Heat/noise is good so far. The device has 3 fans. 1 in the top. 2 in the base. I didn't do anything that kicked on the base fans, but I did hear the hum of the top fan as I was downloading/installing. It's pretty quiet, but you will notice it. * The charger is more powerful. The original in 65W and the new charger is 102W. * This keyboard feels like I'm typing on sponges. :(

It did get faster to like 2000 read and 1100 write

Samsung SM951

I experience wobble when touching the screen, but none whatsoever while I'm typing.

I think 'Go' is the abbreviation for Gigabytes in Spanish

Upgraded from a Surface Pro 3 (i5/256). I have an Alienware Alpha desktop that I only use for occasional gaming so I wanted to combine both of those machines into one that was portable and capable of gaming. So far so good!

Seems pretty good. I'd estimate 10 hours of actual use for me.

Are you using Chrome?

My SB battery life has been fantastic ever since the latest update a couple weeks ago fixed the GPU sleep problem. I have no complaints.