Surface 2 family reboots desktop

Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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Surface 2: Surface Book 2 takes on Mac Book Pro

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Microsoft says the Surface Book 2 has up to five times more graphics performance than the original and is twice as powerful as the MacBook Pro. The top of the range 15 inch model is powered by an Intel Core i7-8650U running at 4.2GHz and uses an Nvidia GeForce® GTX 1060 discrete GPU with 6GB GDDR5 graphics memory. It has 16 GBytes of RAM and 1 TByte of PCIe SSD. All of this power comes at a price. The highest specified Surface Book 2 available in the UK costs £3149 from the Microsoft Store.

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