Tech review: Microsoft Surface Book 3 is showing its age despite hardware upgrades

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Microsoft's new Surface Book 3 already feels long in the tooth despite being launched in Singapore in June.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Microsoft's new Surface Book 3 already feels long in the tooth despite being launched in Singapore in June.

This is because the PC industry seems to have moved away from the Surface Book's detachable 2-in-1 design, where the screen detaches from the keyboard to become a tablet. In short, this hinge design has one too many disadvantages, especially when 2-in-1 convertibles that use a flexible 360-degree hinge are now as sleek as ultrabooks.

Also missing is a Thunderbolt 3 port, which has higher bandwidth than USB-C to connect to multiple secondary 4K displays and external graphics cards, due to security concerns that the interface could be used to access the device's memory, says Microsoft. Despite having the same Core i7 processor and twice the amount of memory as the Surface Pro 7, the Surface Book 3 actually falls behind in PCMark 10 with a score of 4,084 compared to 4,233 for the Surface Pro.

 

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