The only notable difference is the the port selection, which now includes a USB Type-C port alongside two USB 3.0 ports, a Surface Connect and SDXC port. No dedicated GPU is available at the lowest spec, with Intel’s HD 620 taking care of graphics processing. Fn+(Del or Backspace) works on my SP4 too! Just picked up a Surface Book 2, and since I happen to also have a gen 1 thought you guys might be interested to see the differences. Is it a significant upgrade to justify paying the extra money? I've got a SB1 and the way it handles my second monitor is a bit of a bummer, drops FPS all over the joint. The space around the camera has also been fiddled with to present less visible cutouts of the screen’s surround, while the bezel has been slimmed down but not by a drastic amount. Wow TIL! The new Surface Book 2 now only has one configuration that comes with Intel Core i5 and Microsoft still uses the 7-Gen chip for that configuration while Intel Core i7 using 8-Gen chip. You’ll have to look pretty hard to spot the difference between the new and old models of the Surface Book. It’s time to pit the Surface Book 2 against the original Surface Book. save. This would seem ambitious for the models with the dedicated GPUs but we’ll have to reserve our speculation until we get our hands on a review unit. And despite it being unfashionable in the smartphone world, the Surface Book 2 still has a 3.5mm headphone jack. And that gap widens further with the 15-inch Surface Book 2. How do you connect to your second monitor? While there’s no word on a UK release date or pricing yet, the 15-inch model will start at $2,499 and will top out at a massive $3,299; we expect that currency conversion won’t help UK buyers here and that if the 15-inch model makes it over the pond, we’ll be looking at the same numbers only with a pound sign ahead of them. The entry-level 13.5-inch Surface Pro 2 has Intel’s seventh-generation Kaby Lake dual-core i5-7300U clocked at 3.5Ghz and matched with 8GB of RAM, with 256GB of SSD storage. ; Now with USB-C It allows you to charge, transfer data, and output up to two [email protected] displays. When the Surface Book made its UK debut early 2016, it was expensive for the specification it offered, with prices starting at a heavy £1449 for an entry level Core i5 model and topping out at a wallet-emptying £3149 for the top-spec Core i7 unit with the GTX 965M GPU. Nvidia’s 10 series Pascal GPUs are also a major boon, as they can now offer performance akin to their desktop counter parts. Surface Laptop vs Surface Book: How does Microsoft’s refreshed 2-in-1 measure against the original Surface Book? report. Microsoft is claiming 17 hours of battery life from testing with continuous video playback with the Surface Book 2, an hour more than the 16 hours offered by the original Surface Book. The new Surface Book 2 rocks the latest "Kaby Lake" i7 processors, USB-C (finally), and a badass GTX 1050 GPU, putting it on par with some of the best 13.5-inch laptops out there. Key Features: What's new: Better performance It’s now 2.3x times faster than Surface Laptop 2.; New Size Now available in 15-inch with the same beautiful PixelSense display. While the older Surface Book models were useful for general productivity and a bit of photo and video editing with a light gaming on the side, for the models with dedicated GPUs, the higher-end Surface Book 2 models, with their updated processors, look to be proper powerhouses. The Surface Book 2 fixes one of the machine’s few design flaws and offers quieter performance in the smaller version, and so it deserves the win in this category. I’d guess SB2 would drive it significantly better, if you do discrete graphics. It’s here that the original top-spec Surface Pro starts to lose out to its younger sibling. Available for pre-order November 9, the entry-level Surface Book 2 is around £50 more expensive than its predecessor, starting at £1,499. While the Surface Pro has a Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, the processor and RAM are not of the latest standard (the i7 is dual-core in this case), and the 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M is based on architecture that can’t compete with the more modern GTX 1050. In comparison, the entry-level older Surface Pro with its sixth-generation Core i5 processor and Intel HD 520 graphics with 8GB of RAM, is a little bit dated but still offers decent performance given there has not been a major leap in performance for Intel chips of late. Both the 13.5-inch and 15-inch models sport the latest Intel Core  processors and top end versions have access to the Nvidia’s latest 10-series GeForce graphics chips. Having the latest Intel dual- and quad-core processors should yield more power and energy efficiency over the older Surface Book, which while not likely to be particularly noticeable in everyday Windows 10 use, will be felt when throwing more intensive tasks at the chips. Meanwhile, the entry-level Surface Book 2 looks to be a solid upgrade over its predecessor, if not quite appearing to offer a night-and-day difference in specs. But the store in my city had a SB1 on sale for 1249 CAD regular 1949. Is the Surface Book 2 is a worthy upgrade over its predecessor? Just picked up a Surface Book 2, and since I happen to also have a gen 1 thought you guys might be interested to see the differences. Everything you need to know – including all the key specs – is right here. Is there an easy way to tell? The Surface Book has that thicker, wider and heavier base, but I love rapping out articles on the Surface Pro 4 just about as well. Anything but ordinary. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. The most interesting design tweak is barely noticeable and happens under the chassis, with re-designed cooling which allows the 13.5-inch Core i5 model to adopt fanless cooling. This thread is archived. We’ll always tell you what we find. It has 8gb ram, 128gb ssd and the i5. Surface Book vs Surface Book 2 – Summary. The display on the Surface Book 2 is unchanged from its predecessor as well, with the 13.5-inch model still sporting the PixelSense panel with a 3,000 x 2,000 resolution and 267 pixel-per-inch density. I got it figured out. Now, I was looking at the i7 SB2 with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd,thoigh that one is just over 2 grand. FWIW if you do have a gen 1 Surface Book, you can adjust the brightness using Fn+(Del or Backspace) - nice to have dedicated keys, though :) Specs – is right here posted and votes can not be posted and votes can be., thoigh that one is just a bit thicker you need to know – including all the specs... 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