The Microsoft Surface Book is still the best Windows laptop you can buy

It isn’t easy to review Microsoft’s least interesting product release of the fall.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft pulled another October surprise, unveiling the big-screen, all-in-one Surface Studio. It’s a stunner few of us can wait to get our hands on.

In the interim, Microsoft handed us the minimally updated Surface Book with Performance Base. At a glance, it looks just like the excellent laptop/tablet hybrid Microsoft introduced a year agoI lauded that one for its design, unique and unusual dynamic fulcrum hinge, excellent touchscreen (which detaches to become a clipboard-like tablet) and well-designed keyboard. Read more...