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It would also be nice to have two buttons on the side. Its very low profile and requires a lot of pressure to depress. The side button on the pen has limited configurability, and is harder to click than I think it should be. Better than Apple's solution but not as awesome as Wacom's batteryless solution. This still means it has to be replaced at some point. The Surface Pen requires a AAAA battery, not exactly a standard size, though it lasts a long time - up to a year. The nTrig-based Surface Pen is small and lightweight and it appears well built, but I still prefer the feel of a Wacom pen. I still would prefer the days that Microsoft and Wacom were working together. Most older programs won't take advantage of this though, and I'm regularly finding even newer apps that haven't caught up yet. By default Microsoft is doing 200% UI scaling, I've set it to 150 which feels right to me. This means palletes and UI elements look absolutely tiny on some programs. Not all apps properly support scaling for the Surface Book's 3000x2000 resolution. I've also had the process of detaching the screen crash the computer, requiring a hard restart, though recent firmware updates have all but eliminated this issue from my perspective. You have to use both hands to separate the two sides. Its possible to lift up the laptop by the screen even when you've signaled the clipboard to detach. Removing the clipboard from the base requires just the right grip as well. It's definitely more difficult to attach than the type covers on a Surface Pro, or a screen cover for an iPad for instance. There are 5 pins you need to align exactly to attach it properly, which is more difficult than is ideal. There's a keyboard key to detach the keyboard from the clipboard (screen), and while that part works generally well, removing and attaching the screen takes a little more effort and aligning than I'd like. The screen is very close to the glass and therefore so is the tip of a pen. The parallax/glass thickness seems very small. Windows' app store is slowly gaining momentum but nothing like Apple or Google's on their respective mobile platforms.
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Right now touch still isn't really taking hold on the Windows platform but for many UI elements I prefer using touch to the trackpad. Touch, like most Surface products, works very well for apps that support it.
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It is harder to make sure color is always accurate on a laptop, though, since you tend to move a portable device to multiple places. Microsoft hasn't tried to match it to the Adobe RGB gamut though, like most color managed monitors.
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The screen is calibrated to show the full sRGB spectrum, which means its reasonably color accurate. I've noticed its possible for the base of the laptop to scratch the screen, as there's no bumper to make sure the two sides of the laptop don't contact each other.
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I'd still recommend a matte screen protector on this guy. Unfortunately its still a glossy screen but feels a fair bit less reflective than most in my experience. This is probably the first time I've felt comfortable doing this on a portable machine. The screen was large enough to accommodate Photoshop with reduced palettes, a touch UI to control photoshop, my drawing, as well as reference material all at the same time. Of course, you get bigger black bars with video though. It also makes working in portrait a lot more sensible, as well as its the right ratio for standard 35mm film. I believe you get comparable working area to a 14" 16:9 laptop and almost as much as a 15" laptop with this layout. The 3:2 aspect ratio means the display is quite a bit taller and really helps to make things less cramped.
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The 13.5" 3:2 screen makes the Surface Book feel close in size to a 13" MacBook Pro or so, but the screen feels like you get a lot more work area.
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This large screen allows you to be much more productive than the other options on the market (which I'll highlight later) and I can't overstate how good of a balance Microsoft has struck here.
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In my opinion the large screen size and the nVidia GPU are the biggest reasons to get the Surface Book over the alternatives. There are lots of reviews from the usual tech blogs but fewer from the perspective of a person using it purely for creative uses so I thought I'd throw in my two cents. I've been playing with the Core i7/nVidia GPU/16GB Ram/512GB Storage model, which retails for $2699. Its a very interesting and exciting portable computer for creative people. It's kind of a halfway point between something like a Cintiq Companion and a Macbook Pro. So I recently have been playing around with a Microsoft Surface Book.