Editors Liked
- Faster performance
- Almost 20 hours of battery life
- GeForce GTX 965M graphics
- Great keyboard and trackpad
- Has USB ports and SD card slot
- Last year's Performance Base is compatible with this year's Surface Book
Editors Didn't Like
- Very expensive
- Last year's processor and graphics card
- Angular shape when closed
- Doesn't meet minimum specs for VR gaming
The Surface Book "Performance Base" refresh brings a faster Core i7 processor, a GTX 965M GPU for twice the graphics performance, and a larger battery. All worthy upgrades on a svelte package that is still very expensive. Reviewers are praising it for what it delivers, except that maybe Microsoft could've waited just a little while longer and ship with Kaby Lake and a Pascal GPU instead.