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There are very few rumors on Microsoft upcoming surface book 2. I am interested in hearing everyone's opinions on what is possible in the next surface book.

nVidia 10 series graphics

quad core cpu

bigger screen

different design

more affordable

 

The reason I am interested in Microsoft's next surface book is because I am looking for a professional laptop with good battery life that can also play casual games. Although these features are easier to find now, 2 in 1 ability is also important for me for taking notes in math or physics where text is insufficient for note taking

 

Let me know what you think.

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i've not yet heard these rumours about a surface book specificly.. but i feel like it's gonna be a matter of "too expensive anyways"™

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I doubt they'll go for quad cores tbh

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1 minute ago, Vulcan_Knowledge said:

The reason I am interested in Microsoft's next surface book is because I am looking for a professional laptop with good battery life that can also play casual games. Although these features are easier to find now, 2 in 1 ability is also important for me for taking notes in math or physics where text is insufficient for note taking

One laptop you might want to take a look at is Lenovo's new Yoga 720 15". It has up to i7-7700HQ, a GTX 1050, up to 16GB RAM, up to 1TB SSD, and decent battery life.

 

http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/700-series/Yoga-720-15/p/88YG7000828

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Quad core cpu's would be a nice to have for me, I have a quad core desktop which I can use if I need to do anything more difficult

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2 minutes ago, JFischer00 said:

One laptop you might want to take a look at is Lenovo's new Yoga 720 15". It has up to i7-7700HQ, a GTX 1050, up to 16GB RAM, up to 1TB SSD, and decent battery life.

 

http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/yoga/700-series/Yoga-720-15/p/88YG7000828

Yes, I have heard about this laptop, it looks very good but there are not a lot of reviews and I am concerned about it's battery life also I  have heard that there are some qc issues

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Just now, Vulcan_Knowledge said:

Yes, I have heard about this laptop, it looks very good but there are not a lot of reviews and I am concerned about it's battery life

MobileTechReview put one up yesterday. Looks like 6-7 hours on iGPU and 1-2 less on 1050.

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6 minutes ago, JFischer00 said:

MobileTechReview put one up yesterday. Looks like 6-7 hours on iGPU and 1-2 less on 1050.

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1 minute ago, JFischer00 said:

MobileTechReview put one up yesterday. Looks like 6-7 hours on iGPU and 1-2 less on 1050.

Yeah, I saw that review, it is 1 of 2 reviews I have scene and the other one is more negative. I also believe that in order to get the 512gb ssd you need the 4k display so that takes another 1-2 hours off. The one I would get would most likely last 4-6 hours which is decent but not ideal.

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Hopefully by September or even October there will be more options for high performance 2 in 1's

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14 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I doubt they'll go for quad cores tbh

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if they go quadcore, it'll be something low power anyways, at which point we might as well stay dual.

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