This 3:2 aspect ratio is a godsend for working, and even when you're consuming 16:9 video in your off-time, it still looks fantastic, though you will have to live with some pesky black bars.Īnd, with an average screen brightness of 402 nits and covering 100% of the sRGB color gamut, everything looks amazing on this device. We reviewed the 15-inch model, which comes in with a 3,240 x 2,160 display resolution. Perhaps the best part of the Surface Book 3, however, is the PixelSense display.
Microsoft should have been able to do better here.ĭon't get us wrong, the trackpad gets the job done, and is smooth and responsive, but when you're paying this much for a device, nitpicking is definitely called for. Maybe we've been spoiled with the MacBook Pros and Razer Blades of the world, but this is a laptop that is directly going up against those laptops. We get that a lot of things on the Surface Book 3 can be done with the touch screen, but the size of the trackpad here reminds us of a laptop from 2009. Especially because Microsoft didn't capitalize on this empty space with better speakers. There is so much empty space, that we feel like a numpad would be a no-brainer.
However, we would have liked to see a numpad. The spacing is on point, and the actuation and travel make for an extremely comfortable typing experience. The keyboard is without a doubt one of the highlights of the Surface Book 3, and is far and away one of the most comfortable keyboards we've used on a laptop. The fact that it's able to do this at all with a removable display just speaks to the quality of Microsoft's engineering. There is some screen wobbling, like in any 2-in-1 laptop, but unlike say, the Samsung Galaxy Book Flex, the screen won't move too drastically if you move the device. In fact, it's actually very impressive how solid the Surface Book 3 feels when in laptop mode. Thankfully, a quick accidental press of the button won't disengage the tablet, but instead you'll have to hold it down for a couple of seconds until you get the message telling you the device is ready to be removed. If you want to remove the screen from the keyboard, there's a dedicated button for doing so right next to the delete key. The smaller of which is a power/lock button and the long button is simply a volume rocker. On the top of the screen, or the side of the device when in tablet mode, you'll see two buttons. What's really nice to see, however, is the full-sized SDXC card reader – something you can never take for granted in 2020. 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).
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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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