Microsoft Surface Book 3 Review 2020

Microsoft Surface Book 3 Review 2020

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     Welcome to Techno Beyond. Today we are going to take the review of Surface book 3 from Microsoft. So Microsoft is back in 2020 with another nifty surface book device the surface book 3 which can transform in a jiffy from a laptop to a tablet. So let’s get started.

• Design:

     Now the surface book 3 sports a typical magnesium chassis it's a very neat and attractive design if not particularly pan stirring. It’s reasonably durable but it has scratched up a bit over time as well so you will want to take some care when transporting the thing. This 13 inch model weighs just 1.6 kilograms so it's not super lightweight but it's absolutely fine for just lugging around all day in a backpack although things do tend to get a bit girthy around the dynamic fulcrum hinge area. And unfortunately the surface book 3 is only available in single color platinum.

• Port:

     You've got two proper full-sized USB ports as well as a bit of USB type c as well so no worries for connecting peripherals and you've got two Microsoft connect power ports as well one for the base and one for the screen because of course that screen can operate separately. You’ve also got a full sized SD card slot on the side. You don't get any HDMI or display port here on the surface book 3 but you can still hook up a pair of 4k monitors via the USB port.

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• Keyboard:

      The surface book 3 once again packs a very good Chiclet board that is comfortable to type on for hours at a time. The spacing is quite narrow on this 13 inch model but i still find i made next to no errors when touch type and its speed and there's a respectable amount of travel too with a firm type in action.

• Touch pad:

     Around admittedly but it's perfectly responsive and does the job fine you've got your full multi-touch gestures and everything but of course you get the touchscreen controls as well because it can convert into a tablet-style device.

    You’ve also got full windows hello support as well which means you can log into the Microsoft surface book 3 using just the webcam now you don't have to mess around with pins or passwords or anything. 

• Webcam:

     Webcam is definitely decent enough for the likes of video chats on zoom, Skype whatever it captures you in plenty of detail even when you're not particularly well lit.

• Audio:

     No worries about audio clarity either because your voice is clearly and cleanly picked up by the dual studio mics which help to cut down background noise at the same time.

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• Display:

     That 13.5 inch display is pretty good although not as strong as quite a few rivals around this price point. The full HD visuals are perfectly sharp and detailed while contrast levels are also strong you get some pleasingly deep blacks and as it reaches around 360 nits on that maximum brightness level. The color accuracy does somewhat let the surface book 3 down only 93% of the sRGB gamut and 69% of the adobe RGB gamut are covered off.

• As a Tablet:

     When you are in tablet mode you won't be able to benefit from the likes of the dedicated gnu built into the base. Once you snap it off that bass the surface book three is immediately ready to use as a tab and it works well in this form. You can actually stick the display on backwards like so and then use the surface book 3 as a slightly bigger heavier tablet which might sound a bit daft but then you can actually take advantage of those dedicated graphics once again.

• Speakers:

     Now you've got stereo speakers built into the edge of the display one in each top corner but definitely don't bother using them for any music playback because they are decidedly tinny and basically rather poo but they're just about loud and clear enough to enjoy some classic national geographic documentaries.

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• Processor:

     The surface book 3 is also the most powerful laptop that Microsoft has ever made packing in 10th gen Intel core i5 or i7 chipsets. This model came with the core i7 1065 G7 backed by a rather generous 32 gigs of ram. if you're into your bit of benchmarking well geek bench returned a single core score of 1044 and a multi-core score of 34.94 and while you only get simple integrated graphics on the most basic model of the surface book 3.

    This model had discrete graphics specifically the GTX 1650. While the 15-incher comes packing a GTX 1660Ti. This 13-incher can handle a fair bit of pressure don't go expecting the latest titles to run with the super smooth frame rate on high detail settings but it'll definitely do the job for slightly older titles.

• Temperature:

     The surface book 3 did remain impressively cool throughout the gpu temperature maxed out at around 81 degrees and didn't go any higher and the whole time it remained whisper quiet to the point.

• Storage:

     You’ve got 512 gigabytes of internal storage to play around with as well but it's definitely not the fastest drive in the world. two gigabits per second read speeds which isn’t too bad but the write speeds tended to max out around 850 megabits which is some of the slowest.

    You’ll definitely notice it when you're loading big ass video editing apps or games and things like that they tend to take a freaking while to get going.

• Battery:

     When it comes to the battery life the Microsoft surface book 3 once again performed admirably. We found that the battery life tended to drain around 10 with every 40 minutes of mixed use. We made it through a full 8 hours of use before the Microsoft surface book 3 needed a recharge.

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• My opinion:

     The price is not one of those things to love unfortunately it is rather expensive for what you get especially considering the display isn't one of the strongest around. I am not recommending the surface book 3 to more creative users who want to edit photos and videos and things like that. I love the flexible nature of it which means you can convert it into a tablet cleanly and easily.

    So that’s it in today’s review of surface book 3. I hope you enjoyed it. What you think about this device let us know in the comment section down below. If you have any feedback for us your welcome you can comment down below. You can take the email subscription that is totally free so you can get notified when we post. Follow us on the social media for latest updates. Stay tuned on Techno Beyond for latest updates and information related to Tech.