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    Ballanca reacted to Kisai in Should I go for a Surface Book 2?   
    Don't game on devices designed as tablet's as you won't be happy with the result. You can, but the form-factor will throttle the CPU and GPU. Usually devices that are tablet/convertable/ultrabook are designed for light-usage/travel. Load a computationally expensive game on it, and you'll probably get 10 minutes out of it before it's 1/4 of the expected speed. There ARE games you can play on such devices with little or no issue, but they're of the mobile-variety.
     
    A gaming laptop needs to be one of the 1" thick monsters to be sufficient-enough cooled to actually play any game for any significant amount of time, and ones with weaker parts will sound like a jet engine taking off the second you load the game.
     
    My recommendation would be either a Legion Y540  or a Dell G5 15 if you're going to buy something explicitly for gaming-capable while still being a reasonable business laptop.
     
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    Ballanca reacted to 5x5 in Should I go for a Surface Book 2?   
    Look for a modwl with a GPU if you need graphics performance. The T480 should have MX250 options and the E490 comes with a 550X. If you need more power than that X1 Extreme comes with a 1050Ti or 1650
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    Ballanca reacted to Akira Shimazu in Should I go for a Surface Book 2?   
    writing with 1250$? have you check like Lenovo Yoga or Zenbook probably?
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    Ballanca reacted to 5x5 in Should I go for a Surface Book 2?   
    If you are looking for the best keyboard on the market, get a ThinkPad. It's far more durable than consumer devices like the XPS or Surface, offers the best typing experience possible and military spec standards. Maybe a X1 Carbon or T490
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    Ballanca reacted to LukeLinusFanFic in Should I go for a Surface Book 2?   
    Writing as in typing? It's not the most optimized machine, but from my experience with the surface pro, the surface lineup is very high end and very premium.
    Personally, I'd go for the dell xps or any optimized ultrabook.
    Also, you have to be sure 8 gigs of ram is enough for you, as it cannot be upgraded down the line.
     
    Unless you mean digital writing and I completely misunderstood. In that case, sure. Go for it. It's probably very well optimized for what you're looking for (light gaming machine + great typing experience.
     
    From my experience with the Zenbook and Yoga pen and digital notetaking, they are inferior to that of the surface.
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