The Surface Book 3 allows me to detach the tablet, reverse it, re-dock it, and use my external keyboard instead of the base. The Surface Book 3 reclines a bit less than other laptops do, about 50 degrees off of the horizontal.

The Surface Book’s unique design continues with version 3: It folds like a traditional clamshell laptop, or the display detaches to be used as a tablet. You can see part of the tablet venting, running up the side of the display. Price: Starting at $1,599 as tested $2,799 at MicrosoftĪ pair of USB Type A ports and a full-sized SD card slot are on the left side of the Surface Book 3.Weight: 13.5-inch is 3.38 pounds total for Core i5, 3.62 pounds for Core i7 (tablet alone is 1.59 pounds) 15-inch, Core i7 is 4.2 pounds total (tablet is 1.8 pounds).

Operating system: Windows 10 Home (as tested), Windows 10 Pro.

Wireless: 802.11 ax (Wi-Fi 6) Bluetooth 5.0 Xbox Wireless (15-inch only).

Camera: User-facing: 5MP, 1080p (Windows Hello) Rear: 8MP, 1080p.

Ports: 2 Surface Connect, 2 USB-A, 1, USB-C, SDXC, headphone jack.

Storage: (13.5-inch) 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB PCIe SSD (15-inch) 256GB, 512GB (as tested), 1TB, or 2TB PCIe SSD (2TB in United States only).

Graphics: (13.5-inch) Iris Plus, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (Max-Q) with 4GB GDDR5 (15-inch) Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Max-Q) w/6GB GDDR6 (as tested), Nvidia Quadro RTX 3000 (Max-Q) with 6GB GDDR6.

But the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should be a excellent choice for a consumer lifestyle. The RTX hardware supports real-time ray tracing (and Microsoft’s gorgeous Minecraft RTX beta). The Quadro RTX is the best choice if the Surface Book 3 is to be used as a mobile workstation. Mark Hachman / IDG Surface Book 3 specs and featuresĪs you can see from the specs below, we were given the 15-inch Surface Book 3 with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti (Max-Q) GPU option for review.

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