Microsoft Surface Book 3
Price: £2,699 (inc VAT) from fave.co/3aZg92L
The Surface Book 3 continues Microsoft’s five-year mission to create the ‘ultimate laptop’, still uniquely melding a tablet and keyboard base that can be used to create, work, and game. But the goal is harder to achieve in 2020 than ever before. At £1,599 up to £2,899, the Surface Book 3 is pricey. Worse, it offers little improvement over a new and very strong generation of dedicated laptops, from gaming machines with Nvidia’s latest RTX hardware to consumer devices optimized for extreme battery life and connectivity.
Even Microsoft’s own Surface Pro 7 provides a superior tablet experience to the Surface Book 3’s.
It’s a fantastic product for the do-it-all niche it serves. It’s just that as laptops around it continue to evolve and improve, its niche continues to shrink. Here we look at the £2,699 15in model.
PRICES
Microsoft’s Surface Book 3 product line is available in two sizes: 13.5in and 15in. The Surface Book 3 will ship with Windows 10 Home, a somewhat odd choice for a laptop priced like a mobile workstation. A separate version, the Surface Book 3 for Business, will ship with Windows 10 Pro.
What follows are the prices, and then the detailed specs, of both models.
13.5in
£1 599: Core i5-1035G7, 8GB RAM,
, 256GB SSD, Iris Plus
£1 999: Core i7-1065G7, 16GB RAM,
, 256GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1650 (Max-Q)
£2 449: Core i7-1065G7, 32GB RAM,
, 512GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1650 (Max-Q)
£2 699: Core i7-1065G7, 32GB RAM,
, 1TB SSD, GeForce GTX 1650 (Max-Q)
15in
£2 199: Core i7-1065G7, 16GB RAM,
, 256GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1660Ti (Max-Q)
£2 699: Core i7-1065G7, 32GB RAM,
