The pricing also means that it's far from being a value product. I assume the Surface Book 2 is meant for a certain kind of audience, though I'm not sure who that audience is. This includes devices like the Dell XPS 13, MSI GS65 Stealth and the ThinkPad X1 Carbon. Regardless of that, for the same price, you can get laptops that are cheaper, lighter, slimmer and more powerful. At Rs 2,23,000 in India (for the top end model), this laptop is already selling at a premium of almost Rs 50,000. Barring gaming laptops, it's been years since I've seen a laptop this thick. A Lenovo Yoga 920, while it doesn't come with a detachable display, is half as thick (0.5 inches). The hinge, while beautifully engineered, is huge and ugly and makes the laptop much thicker (0.9 inches) than it needs to be.

At 1.9 kg for this 13-inch model (816 g for the tablet portion), it's heavier than the more powerful 15-inch MacBook Pro. While it's got great specs on paper and has the best display and battery life I've seen on a laptop in Windows land yet, I find it almost impossible to define a use-case for the device.įor starters, Surface Book 2 is neither the thinnest nor the lightest notebook out there. This is a question that bothered me from the start. But with so many Windows-based laptops in the market across the price range, and some from established players such as Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus and so on, how relevant is the Surface Book 2? So far, we have only had the Surface Pro selling in India. In a way, it is Microsoft’s answer to Apple's tight-knit hardware-software ecosystem. The Surface line of products is Microsoft’s flagship lineup and is meant to put Windows 10's best face forward, a hardware and software integration template for other manufacturers to emulate. The entry-level Surface Go is also expected to be coming to India soon.

The first variant of the Surface Book never came to India, but with the second generation, Microsoft has decided to launch not just the Surface Book 2, but also the Surface Laptop. Microsoft has finally launched the second generation of its flagship laptop, the Surface Book 2, in India.

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