Is a refreshed Surface Book 2 coming? best processor keeping the rest of the specifications and price

tThe Surface Book 2 was one of Microsoft's launches in 2018. A team designed to fight in the competitive ultraportable market that can be found both in a compact size of 13.5 inches and in larger and more powerful ones with a 15-inch screen.

Two tmodels that could see the family growt if in the end the rumors come true and Microsoft ends up launching a new variant within the Surface Book 2 range. A new model that would hit the market without making much noise and without the need for a presentation at a specific event.

It would be a model designed to renew the offer in the basic 13.5-inch model with Intel Core i5-7300U processor. The new equipment twould replace it with an Intel Core i5-8350Ut SoC, a significant improvement over the model that can be found on the market today.

Compared to the two cores and four threads at 2.60 GHz with Kaby Lake architecture offered by the Intel Core i5-7300U, the Intel Core i5-8350U offers a total of t four cores and eight threads at 1.70 GHz with Kaby Lake R architecture.

This translates to an overall 26% improvement in performance, tremarkably improving in terms of usability in games or applicationst demanding desktop applications.

The new Surface Book 2 will continue to offer the same features as the model currently on the market.Part of a 8 GB RAM with a base storage capacity of 256 GB. As for connections, we find Bluetooth 4.1, two USB-A connections and one USB-C or the use of two 5-megapixel cameras on the front and 8-megapixel cameras on the rear. In addition, they have support for Windows Hello or the backlit keyboard.

	Surface Book 2 13-inch	Surface Book 2 15-inch
Screen	13.5 inch	15 inches
Resolution and Contrast	3000 x 2000 pixels Contrast 1600:1	3240 x 2160 pixels Contrast 1600:1
Processor	7th Generation Intel Dual Core i5-7300U Upgradeable to 8th Generation Intel Quad Core i7-8650U	8th Generation Intel Core i7-8650U 4.2GHz
RAM	8/16 GB	16 GB
Storage	256 GB, 512 Gb or 1 TB SSD	256 GB, 512 Gb or 1 TB SSD
Graph	i5: HD Graphics 620 or i7: HD 620 + GTX 1050 2GB	NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
Weight	i5: 1.53 Kg i7: 1.64 Kg 719 grams in tablet	1, 90 Kg or 817 grams in tablet
Autonomy	Up to 17 hours of autonomy playing video	Up to 17 hours of autonomy playing video
Others	Supports Windows Hello, Microsoft Mixed Reality, Surface Pen, and Surface Dial	Supports Windows Hello, Microsoft Mixed Reality, Surface Pen, and Surface Dial
Price	From 1,669 euros	From 2,659 euros

Price and availability

The new model would maintain the price of the basic Surface Book 2 that can be found on the market right now, so we could purchase for 1,669 euros.

Source | Winfuturede