The keyboard deck of the Surface Book 3 has two USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A ports, a USB 3.1 Gen 2 USB-C port, a Surface Connect port, which is used for charging and connecting an expensive dock, and if you disconnect the Surface Book 3 from the keyboard dock, you'll find another Surface Connect port on the side of the device, along with a 3.5mm jack on another side of the Surface Book 3. The best part of the Surface Book 3 design however, stemming from the fact that it hasn't changed much from last time, is the availability of ports on offer. This is the flagship product in Microsoft's Surface lineup after all, so a certain level of quality is to be expected. Everything about it screams quality, from the rigid feel of the keyboard half of the laptop, along with the chrome Microsoft logo on the back of the device. It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that the Surface Book 3 is a beautiful device. This is probably in the realm of what most creatives will be going for, but if you don't quite need 32GB of RAM – and most people don't – the $2,299 (£2,199, AU$3,699) model will be sufficient, even if you have to go down to 256GB of storage.
If you want to get the model we reviewed (listed to the right), you're looking at a price tag of $2,799 (₤2,699, AU$4,439). You have to add an extra $200 (£200, AU$750) if you want to get a 13.5-inch Surface Book 3 with the Core i7 and 16GB of RAM, which makes it a worse value than the latest MacBook Pro – which is kind of an achievement if you think about it. The only difference is the lack of a removable display on Apple's device. To put that into perspective, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with 10th Gen processors starts at $1,799 (£1,799, AU$2,999) and comes with double the RAM and SSD storage. For that price, you'll get the 13.5-inch model with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. The Surface Book 3 is available right now, and starts at $1,599 (£1,599, AU$2,649). Ports: 1 x USB 3.0 Type-C, 2 x USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-A, 2 x Surface Connect ports, 1 x SDXC reader, 1 x 3.5mm audio comboĬonnectivity: Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+), 802.11 ax 2x2 Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
Here are the specs of the Microsoft Surface Book 3 sent to TechRadar for review:ĬPU: 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-1065G7 (4-core, 8MB cache, up to 3.9GHz)
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