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Microsoft has made its first laptop and it's not a typical laptop I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update what if the surface tablet was more laptop than tablet Microsoft unveiled a whole new laptop hybrid it calls the surface book the surprise product made its debut at a New York event on Tuesday where Microsoft showcased several new devices that run Windows 10 this surface book has an interesting bendy straw looking hinge you can pop the 13.5 inch screen off completely for some tablet time you can think of this as a more powerful version of the surface pro I briefly got to check it out for myself at the event and it is pretty lightweight just 3.3 pounds there's one button you press to release the screen and it requires power to detach you can also snap on a new surface pen magnetically to the side to draw or jot down notes this is packed with a number of high-end features as for the processor Microsoft sets is twice as fast as a MacBook Pro and it can last 12 hours on battery it cost 1500 dollars and it arrives on October 26th meanwhile Microsoft is also coming out with a new surface pro 4 it's slightly smaller than the book it's 12.3 inches but the specs inside are upgraded in a number of ways including a better processor and more memory and storage as you'd expect this new model has a fingerprint scanner for security both the surface book and the surface pro for work with a new pen that comes with an eraser and the screens can capture more detail in your pen strokes the pen also comes in a few colors the surface pro 4 starts at $900 and it's coming out October 26th with pre-orders opening up on Wednesday now part of Microsoft's big selling point to Windows 10 is that you're getting the same operating system experience on a laptop tablet and phone Microsoft showed off two new Lumia phones the 950 and 950 XL the most noteworthy aspect aside from the liquid cooling inside which is just nuts is that you can dock these phones to a monitor in a keyboard and you get something like a normal Windows 10 working experience the Lumia 950 starts at five hundred and fifty dollars micro there's also coming out with a new Microsoft band it's the second version of its fitness tryst band and it packs in nearly a dozen sensors including a barometer to measure elevation and it puts a focus on some specific types of workouts for example it has a golf swing tracker to automatically detect if you're putting driving or just taking practice swings and finally a bit of news on the hololens augmented reality headset if you're a program developer and you want to try it out Microsoft is charging $3,000 for early test units and they're coming out early next year that's it for this tech news update but we have more on all the Microsoft news at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey