Linux support for other random features has pleasantly surprised me: I managed to get a working CUDA install and drivers (for PyTorch development), ability to boot my Linux partition bare metal as well as from a VM in Windows and I can even detach the screen while booted into Linux.That's Xournal with XInput pen and hibernate (though with some caveats.) I've managed to get all of the "important" functionality to work.Especially given the price premium you're paying for the three-way flexibility you may not really need.įirst published June 1, 2020. Now convertibles, discrete graphics and color-accurate displays are common, plus there are more with Adobe RGB or P3 gamut coverage and 400-nit-plus brightness compared to the Surface's sRGB-ish, 380-nits peak.
But two years ago, there was a lot less competition. The Surface Book remains Microsoft's most interesting and ambitious Surface PC, playing to creatives, gamers and tablet users. The tablet ran down to 35% after about 2 hours in detached mode using Fresco. If subsequent testing shows improvement, we'll update this. In my real-world usage, without opening a single graphics app - justĪpps in Chrome, Firefox and Slack with brightness set higher - I'm down to 23% after roughly 3.5 hours of steady use. You can charge them independently as well. The system automatically uses both batteries - a small one in the tablet section and a bigger one in the base - which drain and charge together when they're connected, and which you don't need to think about unless they stop charging or communicating. (I'm still waiting to hear back from Microsoft on that problem.) In our streaming video tests, which don't tax any part of the system heavily, the battery lasted up to a reasonable 12 hours with brightness initially set to 50. On battery, my test unit wouldn't let me disable autobrightness, which even in a dim environment dropped it unusably low - to about 50 nits. Though Microsoft rates its battery life at 17-plus hours, that's on the optimistic side Microsoft's tests include standby time, which resembles some people's actual work behavior.
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