If you suspect Microsoft's seriousness to develop a range of high-end terminals, the October 26 conference may well have dispelled your uncertainties.
First, the American presented an update of his convertible notebook, the Surface Book. This is a very high-end version. Its name: the Surface Book i7. And with this one, even the starting model is a power watch.
Surface Book i7: another rival for the MacBook Pro
Under the hood, a Core i7 processor (Skylake and not Kaby Lake), a Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M GPU graphics card with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory for 1.9 teraflops graphics performance, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 SSD Go.
The i7 version of the Surface Book integrates a new ventilation system and has an autonomy up 30% compared to the previous model. Microsoft announces 16 hours of battery life, more than on an Apple notebook.
Microsoft enters into frontal competition with the Cupertino firm on the high end, including therefore on prices. Surface Book i7 starts at 2399 dollars. The 512 GB and 1 TB models (plus 16 GB of RAM) are at 2799 and 3299 dollars respectively.
The new Surface Book will be on sale from November 10th. Pre-orders are already open. However, it was first with Surface Studio that Microsoft wanted to type a big blow ... on its competitor Apple.
In appearance, this is an all-in-one or All-in-One PC. But during its presentation yesterday October 26, the manufacturer has tried to demonstrate that Surface Studio gave birth to a whole new category of computers.
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