SURFACE BOOK VS MACBOOK PRO, WHO WINS?

People made us believe that Apple products are the best nowadays. But people have started changing their minds this year when the Surface Book 2 by Microsoft Surface launched the November of 2017.

They had launched the original and first one Surface Book in 2015 but unfortunally was only in some countries like America and the UK. So people form other countries which had different keyboards depending on their language had a barrier to buy the 1st edition.

I was going to study abroad and i wanted to buy a new laptop that could give me something others couldn't and the Surface Book by Microsoft was my better option. I had problems to buy it because i was from Spain and i could only buy it form Amazon or Ebay. The keyboard was not a issue for me as I knew typing and I didn't need to watch all the time the letters to type. Obviusly some letter like "ñ" or "ç" weren't there but i changed the keyboard from settings and they were on the same positon but without the name on the key.

Here there are the comparison between the Surface Book and the Macbook Pro:

I have to say that the first Surface Book was launched on 2015 whereas the Macbook pro was launched on 2016. Something I think is very important of a brand is the innovation among their journey as a technology commpany.

I am going to link you the two videos of both laptops:

- Surface Book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzWS9UMMCNA

- MacBook Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVPRkcczXCY&t=2s

- Surface Book 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0WhrRIqT6Y

This does not stop here, this year Microsoft Surface launched the sencond edition of the Surface Book, but this insted is called Surface Book 2.

What new things has the Surface Book 2 from the first one?

SURFACE BOOK 2:

DESIGN:

First of all, now it comes with two different sizes, we hae the 13,5 inches or the 15 one inches. That's the only big differences between them because Microsoft wanted to keep its beautiful design it had always had.

HARDWARE AND PERFORMANCE:

Things get a little more interesting when we start to compare the innards of the Surface Book 2. Both the 13.5-inch and 15-inch models sport the latest Intel Core  processors and top end versions have access to the Nvidia’s latest 10-series GeForce graphics chips.

The entry-level 13.5-inch Surface Pro 2 has Intel’s seventh-generation Kaby Lake dual-core i5-7300U clocked at 3.5Ghz and matched with 8GB of RAM, with 256GB of SSD storage. No dedicated GPU is available at the lowest spec, with Intel’s HD 620 taking care of graphics processing.

In comparison, the entry-level older Surface Pro with its sixth-generation Core i5 processor and Intel HD 520 graphics with 8GB of RAM, is a little bit dated but still offers decent performance given there has not been a major leap in performance for Intel chips of late.

Top-tier models of the 13.5-inch Surface Book 2 come with Intel’s eight-generation quad-core Core i7-8650U processor running up to 4.2GHz, 16GB of LPDDR3 RAM, and up to a 1TB SSD, with the option for a dedicated 2GB GeFroce GTX 1050, which makes use of Nivida’s latest efficient Pascal architecture.

It’s here that the original top-spec Surface Pro starts to lose out to its younger sibling. While the Surface Pro has a Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, the processor and RAM are not of the latest standard (the i7 is dual-core in this case), and the 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M is based on architecture that can’t compete with the more modern GTX 1050.

And that gap widens further with the 15-inch Surface Book 2. Only three spec options are on offer for the 15-inch model, with the only the RAM and storage being configurable, running from 8GB to 16GB and 256GB to 1TB respectively.

Now, the Surface Book 2 is available to new 17 countries as: Bahrain, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Oman, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates.