Microsoft Windows 10 hardware event Oct 6th 10 am EST

These prices!!! Especially the Surface Book. Without the GPU dock....that price is waaay to expensive.

 

eastmen where did those prices come from?
There should be Core i7 variants in the Pro 4, so they're at least incomplete.


The MCM with 3 chips in the Surface 4 Pro presentation:

 

So I might wait until I enroll in school to get the discount. I recently retired from 1 career and will be going back to school. I agree that the 256/16gig i5 is the sweet spot. It would be an easy pre-order if it was a couple hundred cheaper.

 

Re-watching the hololens demo...still corny

 

Right, so the Pro 4 version with the Core i7 is the only one with the GT3e, and it will only come in November.

Fun fact: the most expensive Surface Pro 4 option with Core i7, 16GB RAM and 1TB costs as much as the most expensive Surface Book option with Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD and external GPU. That's $2699.

Moreover, for the Surface 4 Pro the upgrade to Core i7 is no less than $300 ($1299 -> $1599), whereas for the Surface Book the same/similar upgrade costs $200.

My guess is that the Core i7 in the Surface Book is not a GT3e version. Which is a shame because with DX12 multi-adapter the GT3e + GM107 duo could bring a lot of horsepower.

 

Don't forget you still need to add the Type cover. At the higher end, it may cheaper to go for the Surface Book; even if it cost more you get the dedicated GPU.

 

http://news.microsoft.com/download/presskits/surface/docs/surfacebookfs.docx

The Surface Book models only have a GT2 model.
One thing I noticed is that in the presentation they said the Surface Book has "2 more cores" than the Macbook Air. Could this thing have a 4-core/8-thread Skylake H after all?
Intel did just announce the i7 6288EQ as a 25W part, but it has a HD 530 (GT2 with higher clocks than HD 520).

 

I'm not up to date on this....is this really good or disappointing?

 

I can't find it anywhere, but is the battery in the new pen replaceable?

 

OK. SP3 didn't have any dedicated RAM though. Also, there is still the other dedicated RAM that this count against right? So it's 1GB+ the 8 or 16 GB.

I don't really know.

 

1GB is really terrible for these days. I hope that info is wrong and we're talking about 2GB minimum.


For me:
- detachable keyboard with GPU = Detachable GPU
- Detachable GPU = switchable GPU

Here's hoping they will launch upgraded keyboard+GPU combos next year, when the next generation models are ready with HBM, 14/16nm and such. The jump in performance at the same power envelope should be pretty big.

 

I must be missing it. So this is not about the SP4...right. I couldn't find the info about the 1GB for dedicated GPU on the MS store.

Also reading up on i5 Intel HD graphics 520, this means no EDRAM right?

 

Copy.

Sorry for being a pest, but it's a bit confusing between the two.