Microsoft is a company not traditionally known for its PC hardware systems prowess, but the company’s Windows Devices Group has been working feverishly for four years to change that. Microsoft already created a new device category with the Surface Pro line of tablets, which I recently observed after four months of use. The first few years of Surface were rough for Microsoft, but this new category is part of the new bright spot in the PC space which includes convertibles and detachables according to data from IDC’s latest Q4 2015 report. The Surface Book is a very unique approach to this category as it appears first and foremost as a notebook before being a tablet, unlike the Surface Pro 4. I attended the October 2015 event where both devices were launched, have been using the Surface Book since December and want to provide some observations on it. Surface Book is truly a design achievement and Microsoft deserves kudos for it.

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