I could finally work on my lap without worrying about melting my thighs and the machine gave me a good balance of performance and mobility. Then I came across the Surface Pro 2 (read my initial review), which was a dream come true. Not an ideal setup in terms of productivity when traveling, but at least I was able to travel lightly. When traveling, I would only take my iPad with a bunch of accessories (to backup photos, etc) and when I would get home, I would do all the Lightroom and Photoshop on my desktop. I decided to downsize just to two devices – my laptop “wannabe” iPad tablet (with its third party case plus an integrated Bluetooth keyboard), and a full-featured, powerful desktop. But worst of all, none of them gave me the comfort, the performance and the mobility I needed. Sadly, it never happened – they all had their issues and compromises. Basically, I have tried them all in pursuit of finding the best. I have tried everything from workstation-class laptops all the way to netbooks and ultrabooks. Throughout my past IT career, I went through many different laptops from different brands like Dell (Inspiron, Latitude, Precision and XPS), HP (Pavillion), IBM / Lenovo (ThinkPad), Sony (VAIO), Toshiba (Satellite), Alienware, Acer and a number of others. Ridiculous, but that’s what many of us sadly go through when using laptops! I even had ones with built-in fans, that you could connect to a USB port of a laptop. I cannot tell you how many lap desks I went through as a result – I probably had a collection of at least 5-6 of those with various features at home. It was very painful to use them on the go, because they would all get very hot, making lap work extremely uncomfortable. The powerful workstation-class laptops I used to own would generate enormous amounts of heat, often kicking off their loud fans (every once in a while, it felt like they would take off!). I loved my tablet for web browsing and email, but I hated it for its limitations, which forced me to switch between the tablet and the much bigger and heavier laptop. I knew it was something I had to test and review.įor years, I used to have two devices – an iPad tablet for web browsing and email, and a much bigger and beefier laptop for doing real work. A true powerhouse in a very compact form factor, ideal for traveling and photo editing on the go. A laptop and a touchscreen tablet hybrid with a powerful 6th generation dual core Intel CPU, dedicated NVIDIA GPU, up to 1 TB of SSD memory and up to 16 GB of RAM. When I first heard about the Surface Book, I thought “here goes another laptop again”…until I saw the screen detach from the keyboard, revealing that it was a two-in-one hybrid machine.
Having been using the Microsoft Surface Pro for several years now, I was psyched to see the launch of the Surface Book, along with the Surface Pro 4.
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