Many reviewers have responded to the preproduction version of Microsoft’s Surface Book the way an average Joe would view a top-of-the-line luxury car: The features are great, but the price is daunting. “Overall, we recommend it, especially to people who value performance, design and battery life above all else, and are willing to pay dearly for it,” remarked reviewer Dana Wollman. The Surface Book is “astonishingly expensive,” said Peter Bright in his review.
OK here is some issues with the Surface Book from a designers perspective. Who on earth would create a notebook that cannot close properly and has a gap in the back while the screen and base close perfectly flat in front? I mean even the Lenovo Yoga has a hinge system that allows this. Then you have a magnetic pen that attaches to the side of the Surface Book. Like that won't get knocked off and lost. Microsoft will make a mint selling pen replacements. Maybe that was the point? Anyway Steve Jobs would have had a field day making fun of the Surface Book and that gap between the screen and keyboard would have drove him nuts! This to me alone makes it not even close to a $1500 plus notebook. It looks like a rough build of something Microsoft threw together.
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Surface Book Evokes Oohs, Ahhs and Sticker Shock
Posted by: Richard Adhikari October 21, 2015 03:47 PMMany reviewers have responded to the preproduction version of Microsoft’s Surface Book the way an average Joe would view a top-of-the-line luxury car: The features are great, but the price is daunting. “Overall, we recommend it, especially to people who value performance, design and battery life above all else, and are willing to pay dearly for it,” remarked reviewer Dana Wollman. The Surface Book is “astonishingly expensive,” said Peter Bright in his review.