Surface Book i7 sales start today from the Microsoft Store

Posted on by Jules Wang

Microsoft calls it the “Surface Book with Performance Base,” and with a beefed up quad-core Intel Core i7 processor inside, a discrete NVIDIA GeForce GTX965M GPU, more fans and more batteries chucked in below the keyboard, we can see why the base unit is getting all the performance attention it needs.

We’ll keep calling it the Surface Book i7. Seriously, it rolls off the tongue.

And it has rolled off of pre-orders and into shipments, too. Specifically, Microsoft in the US and Canada is opening up sales for the revised detachable laptop.

The base memory option has 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM for US$2,399/CA$3,129 while the 512/16 version is $2,799/$3,629. The 1TB/16GB version will begin sales on November 28 at $3,299/$4,379.

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With the Microsoft Surface Book i7, the top tier gets a big upgrade

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If you wanted more from a Surface Book than what Microsoft ever gave you before, the comapny’s hardware chief, Panos Panay, will give it to you with the new Surface Book i7.The new graphics chip and processor can help deliver twice as much graphic processing power than the regular top-tier Surface Book and thrice as much as the nearest 13-inch MacBook Pro. The design envelope had to be tweaked — a second fan is in the mix.“We also put more batteries in the product,” Panay ...

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