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Product: Surface Book 3. Vendor: Microsoft.
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Microsoft’s first Surface Book was celebrated in test reports four years ago as “Ferrari among notebooks”. While the manufacturer has meanwhile expanded its Surface product family to include various laptops, tablets, headphones and other devices, the Surface Book has recently become silent. Some fans even feared that Microsoft said goodbye to the model in order to fully focus on the laptop business. But now the US company has presented fresh hardware in an online event, including the new Surface Book 3. The company also presented a new edition of its surface Pro school laptop and an improved version of its Surface Headphones headphones.
With the Surface Book 2016, the software company didn’t just want the Macbooks from Apple oppose a high-quality alternative, but establish a new device class: unlike the Macbook you can see the display from Notebook decouple and use it as a tablet for surfing.
The Surface Book 3 is now equipped with Intel’s tenth-generation Core i processors, so that resource-hungry professional software such as Solidworks, Autodesk, Visual Studio or the Adobe Creative Cloud programs can also be run with it. The manufacturer promises a 50 percent increase in performance compared to the previous model and the “most powerful laptop from Microsoft to date”. The battery should last up to 17.5 hours. You can choose from 13.5 or 15 inch touch displays. Depending on the graphics performance, the device is optionally available with Nvidia Geforce or Nvidia Quadro GPU. The Surface Book 3 is available with a 13.5-inch display from a price of 1799 euros, in the 15-inch version from 2599 euros.
The Surface Go also has a successor. The Surface Go 2 has a 10.5-inch display and can optionally be equipped with Intel’s Core M processors of the eighth generation or Pentium Gold processors. With this computer, Microsoft promises a battery life of up to ten hours, while maintaining the slim and light design of its predecessor. Users who want to access data on the go and do not want to be dependent on WLAN can also opt for a variant with mobile radio (LTE Advanced). The Surface Go 2 starts at a price from 459 euros. With LTE-Advanced, the compact laptop costs from 829 euros.
At the event, Microsoft also announced a new edition of its wireless headphones. According to the company, the Surface Headphones 2 offer improved sound quality and battery life of up to 20 hours. The newly designed ear cups can now also be rotated 180 degrees. This is useful if the headphones are temporarily removed and worn around the neck. The Surface Headphones cost 280 euros.
In the future, the company will also sell its cordless in-ear headphones, the Surface Earbuds. The True Wireless plugs can be operated with gestures. This allows users to take calls or skip to the next song without that Smartphone to take out of your pocket. Microsoft charges 220 euros for the Surface Earbuds.
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