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Is anyone excited?

I'm super excited. I've really loved my Surface Book (probably the first piece of hardware I've felt that way about), but 512GB was too small, a proper gaming graphics card with VR support will make it so much better, and USB-C is good (though no eGPU support is a disappointment).

Well, I bought the Surface Book 1 and returned it after a month of it barely working. So no, not really.

What issues did you face?

A better question is, what issues didn't I face? Unlocking randomly wouldn't work, the display driver was crashing when using firefox/chrome consistently, battery life was abysmal, device would bluescreen, etc.

From what I understand they finally patched most of these out after more than a year. No need to go on that roller coaster again.

Really strange how big corporations put out devices before testing them out properly!

Yes, from my experience all that eventually got fixed. For the first six months that I owned my surface book, I continued to use my rMBP. But by now, I really do enjoy using it as my primary computer. What I like most about it is using it with two external monitors connected to the expansion dock. I flip the screen around on my suface book and then place it in the middle between the external monitors and hook up a wireless keyboard and mouse. This triple monitor mode is awesome and perfect for doing some sketching or use my programming IDE on the surface book while having the other two monitors available for productivity. I replicated this setup at the office and home and now I can't imagine going back.

I got my unit on initial release, so have had it for roughly 2 years. It was hit or miss for the first 3 months, but various updates solved all the issues.

It's been running like champ ever since.

Laptop manufacturers messed up by not behaving like cell phone manufacturers. without planned obsolescence and scheduled component failures, there just isn't the same demand for iterative improvements.

I use a six year old Thinkpad and it feels like a new machine. This just doesn't look like it's worth ten of my laptop.

I’m excited in that I hope this pushes Apple to do better with the next MBP.

Seeing in the article:

> Surface Book 2 brings you a full array of ports, including USB-A, USB-C, and full-size SD card reader which makes it easy to connect other devices, accessories and memory cards without the need for a bag full of dongles.

I find there is a good reason to like it, compared to this:

https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c

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