This is one of the best laptop keyboards out there. It's springy with good travel and feedback. Trackpad is big, comfortable to use, and accurate. The palm rest has the matte textured surface that's really nice to touch. Build quality of the magnesium alloy body is excellent. The design is dated but it still looks good. The first Surface Book came out in 2015 so this design is almost five years old now. Booting Windows, launching apps and saving big files are fast. If you work with RAW photos and video, you can expect storage to fill up very quickly. The actual storage space after formatting is as follows:Ī clean Windows 10 installation takes up 12GB, and apps maybe another 10GB. If you're just into graphic design and digital art, 16GB is sufficient. I loaded 5 minutes of 4K videos into Premiere Pro and almost 16GB of memory was used. If you create visual content, edit photos and videos, I recommend 32GB. If you have the budget, definitely get at least 16GB of RAM. The real questions are, who the Surface Book 3 is for, and is it worth the money? While the prices are on the higher side, it may not be a fair comparison to pit this against traditional laptops since laptop screens can't be detached. The main selling point of the Surface Book 3 is its ability to have the screen detach and use as a tablet. But can those laptop screens be detached to be used as a tablet?

Many will no doubt say that you can get more power laptops with the same amount of money.

Prices in Singapore range from S$2,498 for the 13.5-inch with Intel Iris Plus to S$4,498 with the 15-inch with 32GB RAM, 1TB storage and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q. Shown above is a table (sourced from Wikipedia) with the various configurations possible with prices in USD. It comes with the following specifications: This review unit I have was on loan from Microsoft Singapore. I'm in the art industry so my review will be from the perspective of a content creator, one who's into digital art, graphic design, photo and video editing. This review will let you know whether the SB3 is worth the wait and your money. This is the successor to the Surface Book 2 from November 2017. Surface Book 3 is the top-of-the-line 2-in-1 PC released by Microsoft in May 2020.

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