Still, it remained a doughty device to this day, and I felt real sadness when I sold it on to partially fund the Surface Book 2. My Surface Pro 3 from 2015 has been my trusty on-the-road work companion until now, but playing games with even a whiff of 3D on it was a no-no, and video-editing could get painful. The specs tended to be middling too, as Surfaces were more interested in slimline portability and decent battery life than they were raw grunt. In the main, the scales were tipped mostly in favour of tablet, with the keyboards being functional but insubstantial affairs that couldn't recreate the solidity and lap-friendliness of a conventional laptop. The Microsoft Surface range's shtick has long been devices that switch between laptop and tablet by attaching and removing a keyboard cover/base. Still, I'm a picky sonuvagun, so this won't be breathless praise of my own decision-making, promise. I say this up-front because investing a huge sum of cash in something means one feels inherently different about it than they would something loaned for free for a while - there's that burning need to justify the purchase. In theory, then, a gaming laptop not to feel hideously embarrassed by - not least because removing the keyboard and brandishing a hilariously large 15in tablet on the train will generate all the self-consciousness you could ever require.įull disclosure first: I bought the Surface Book 2 used for this article, as we weren't able to get hold of a review unit promptly and I was itchy-keen to sample a lappie that seemingly ticked a ton of personally-important boxes (such financial recklessness is rare for me, but I succumbed to temptation as a friend could use their student discount on the MS store).
Its industrial edges and muted silver tones mean it announces itself as all business in the streets, but the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 tucked inside its detachable keyboard base makes a case for more than casual gaming in the sheets. In the past, their Surface range of (mostly) hybrid laptops/tablets have hardly been gaming machines, but that's now changed with current range-topper, the shockingly expensive Surface Book 2. Microsoft have been striving to present a stark alternative to Apple's coffee-shop-ubiquitous Macbook line for a while now.
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