The first laptop 2-in-1 is available from Microsoft in our region: it is the Living Book. Microsoft strengthens its range surface with a high-end model that innovates on the manufacture via an integrated hinge and offers the best that we can currently find in terms of components including a keyboard containing a dedicated graphics chip. Microsoft would it be the only manufacturer to attack Apple in front? Is the Book Living up to its price? answers in this test!
At the beginning of last October that Microsoft created a stir with the announcement of the Living Book. While all awaited an area 4, also announced and already launched in our country, Microsoft unveiled its first parallel laptop, Book area. A notebook full of surprises since it also tablet!
And Microsoft does not skimp on the configuration of this device, which is intended particularly challenging technically, with advanced configurations, some embedding a dedicated GPU … in keyboard, we will return. Available for some time in the United States, the Surface Book finally crossed the Atlantic and is now offered for sale in France.
The opportunity to take stock of this 2-in-1 unexpected and surprising by Microsoft and conducted by Windows 10. a 2-in-1 that appears in response to those who find the tablet too remote area of a laptop … and a laptop too bulky and sometimes heavy.
the first contact with the Living Book nevertheless surprised by the weight. It must be said that the machine still weighs 1580 grams on the scale! As we talked of congestion, the Surface Book is two times heavier than Surface Pro 4 that weighs between 766 and 785 grams. The other surprising element lies in the ultimately very monolithic appearance of the machine, a feeling reinforced by its unique gray, Microsoft calls “money”, and touch matte magnesium coating.
Made of an alloy magnesium chassis leaves a very good impression by its finish. It is far from the manufacturing of the first all surface approximations. Microsoft has so far progressed and we had already seen, however, with the iterations Surface Pro 3 and 4 in particular.
So the outset, the Living Book evokes the manufacturing quality of a MacBook , which remains a standard, whatever the naysayers, although it fears for the bottom of the unit … while magnesium mat that can be scratched with use, despite the two long ribbons supposed to raise all rubber and ensure its stability.
Released its beautiful box (a tricky test), Surface Book is as a conventional notebook with a cover screen which is easily raised. The thickness of the frame with respect to the keyboard portion is relatively thin for a portable, 7.7 mm, a contrario , relatively thick to the screen if one considers a laptop No. Microsoft is playing with our feelings at the chassis and keyboard: the part that comes in front of us is the thinnest, while it increases in thickness on the bottom of the chassis. . Work forms which is not possible for the tablet screen …
Once opened, the Living Book Unveils hinge here is a unique achievement: an articulated hinge concealed in the magnesium frame! This is only usable when the screen is present (no need to force after removing the tablet) while there are fears about him, despite the industrial prowess, it is subject to retrieve dust and dirt . Indeed, when the Surface Book is open, the hinge has striations while closed, it reveals fine openings on each of its components in slightly edging silver and shiny. On our test model, one of them reveals what appears to be two points of overflowing thermal paste …
Fully deployed, the hinge area Book does not allow a more pronounced tilt the screen that shows our last picture. And closed, the surface is not flat Book a contrario of many of its competitors 2-in-1: there is indeed a large space between the screen and keyboard at the hinge. A singular space, bringing the thickness of Living Book at this level to 22 mm and disappears on the edges of the closed machine to a thickness that falls to 13 mm. Besides this strange feature of design, which must be used well, it fears for the safety of surface transportation in Book in a backpack for example (above the pressure could be dangerous).
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