This GPU is non-standard it doesn't neatly line up with any of Nvidia's usual mobile parts, and while it's faster than the Intel integrated graphics, it's not as quick as the more mainstream numbered parts. On higher-end models the keyboard base also contains a discrete Nvidia GPU. The Surface Book's big party trick is that the screen portion is the part that contains the computer it has batteries, a processor, RAM, storage, and everything else. The keyboard base, the part that in a regular laptop houses the computer parts, contains only the keyboard, touchpad, and battery.

Mini-DisplayPort, headphones, SD, 2 USB 3.0įront: 5MP, 1080p video, infrared facial recognitionġ2.30×9.14×0.59-0.90' (312×232×14.9-23 mm)Īmbient light sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer Intel HD Graphics 520 + Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M 2GBĨ02.11ac/a/b/g/n with 2x2 MIMO antennas, Bluetooth 4.0 Specs at a glance: Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Baseģ000×2000 13.5' (267 PPI), 10-point capacitive PixelSense touchscreen But Microsoft has made an upgrade of sorts to the Surface Book range in the form of an even more expensive version that sits at the very top of the range: the Surface Book with Performance Base. The Surface Book, the laptop that can do double duty as a tablet, also remains a Skylake system.

The Surface Pro 4 with its Skylake processor remains the current iteration of the company's productivity-oriented tablet and hasn't changed since its introduction. Microsoft, however, has gone for none of these routes. Some manufacturers have been a little more ambitious HP's updated Spectre x360 adds Thunderbolt 3 and Windows Hello support as well as slashing the size and weight. Dell's new XPS 13 is in most regards identical to the old XPS 13, for example, except for the processor swap.

Kaby Lake parts are for the most part drop-in replacements for Skylake parts-same chipsets, same power envelopes and cooling requirements-and some manufacturers have taken advantage of this fact. Most of the PC OEMs have refreshed their Skylake systems to include Intel's new Kaby Lake chips.

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