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three things you need to know about the new Microsoft Surface book with performance pace it's all about that base Microsoft's new Surface book is like last year's a bold design that's somewhere between tablet and laptop with a detachable display and a base that has more serious computing power if you love the surface books look last year you're in luck if you thought it was weird well nothing's really changed with it it has the same hinge with its odd gap the same Microsoft Pam which is included in the same ports thankfully USB 3 an SD card slot and no USB see but the whole package is nowhere near as thin and light as the surface pro 4 this time Microsoft amps up that performance in a slightly thicker base it has a better battery improved nvidia geforce gtx 960 5 mm graphics and a more powerful intel core i7 processor it doesn't work with surface pro 4 however but the idea is to swap bases and tops down the road perhaps you can't buy that base on its own that what comes prepackaged with the top half sorry if you bought a first gen service book you're out of luck it's more expensive it finally feels like a higher-end laptop you're paying for that privilege the surface book starts at 20 399 with 256 gigabytes of storage and 8 gigs of ram and goes all the way up to 32 99 it's not a VR machine Microsoft wants to make everything about VR and mixed reality but the minimum specs for VR gaming on a PC are higher than what the new service book can provide so don't expect to plug in your oculus rift or HTC vive maybe down the road Microsoft will aim to make some VR work with this laptop don't go buying the surface before VR na go somewhere else the new service book is a better computer and a more expensive one but it's also more of a bump up to last years than a totally new experience