A year ago, Microsoft set out to prove to the world that a Windows laptop could hang with the best MacBooks from Apple. The Surface Book, with its head-turning design, wild hinge technology, and detachable screen was just that laptop. Microsoft largely succeeded: though it wasn’t perfect, the Surface Book showed that a powerful, well-designed, and attractive Windows laptop was possible.

A year later, the company hasn’t changed much with the Surface Book formula, not that it really had to. In fact, most of the Surface Book line is entirely unchanged: the only update is happening to the top-of-the-line model, while everything else remains the same. If you’ve been hoping for a Surface Book 2, this is not the machine you’ve been waiting…

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