

A little long in the hingeįor those unfamiliar with the Surface Book line, it sports a unique accordion-like hinge and a detachable screen. The current i7 option is no slouch, however.

Still, it would have been nice to see a more powerful CPU option in the Book 3, especially considering its target userbase. However, the company also noted that the higher power GPU should balance it out. The choice to go with the 1065G7 is due to the design, a Microsoft spokesperson explained in a product briefing. That said, considering the Book 3 maxes out at the quad-core i7-1065G7, some professionals will no doubt find the laptop lacking in some scenarios. This is a laptop that Microsoft is aiming directly at professionals, whether that means editing video or doing 3D rendering. To be fair, even on my busiest days I likely wasn’t pushing the Surface Book 3 to its limits. In that time, I seldom encountered any serious slowdowns. I used it primarily for work while I had the review unit, which meant lots of web browsing often with more than seven tabs open, Photoshop, Slack and more running. Microsoft provided a 15-inch Surface Book 3 with the 10th Gen Intel Core i7, 512GB of storage, 32GB of RAM and the GTX 1660 Ti. The internals are just as impressive in use as they are on paper. If you’re looking to get the Book 3 for business, you can push even higher with up to Quadro RTX 3000 graphics. As it should - this laptop can be kitted out with up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i7-1065G7 processor as well as up to Nvidia GTX 1660 Ti Max-Q graphics.

