It’s a similar story for the 15in Surface Book 3, but this range starts at £2,199 for a Core i7/16GB/256GB combo, with a 32GB/512GB variant for £2,699 and a 1TB model for £2,899. If you want 1TB of storage, you’ll need to pay £2,699 for the top-end consumer model. Which means that the first spec with a 512GB SSD costs £2,449, with the only compensation coming in 32GB of RAM. If you can afford the extra £400 – and yes, the price really does jump from £1,599 to £1,999 without passing Go – you double up the RAM, gain a Core i7 and enjoy GeForce graphics, but are stuck with that 256GB SSD. READ NEXT: The best tablets you can buy Microsoft Surface Book 3 review: Pricing and models available If you buy the weakest version of the Surface Book 3, a Core i5 with integrated graphics, 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage, you’re going to suffer exactly the same limitations. This has never been a problem for me with the Surface Book 2, but your circumstances might vary.Īside from the storage space issues on my Surface Book 2, the other big limitation was 8GB of RAM.

The Nvidia card is tucked away in the base rather than the screen section with the rest of the computer’s internals, which means that even if you buy the Core i7 version it will slip back to Iris Plus acceleration when disconnected. And note that this chip is only provided with the Core i7 specifications: if you choose the cheaper Core i5-1035G7 version, you’re stuck with Intel’s integrated Iris Plus graphics.

The 13.5in Surface Book 3 includes the more humble GeForce GTX 1650 with 4GB of memory.

Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (13.5in) review: A superb laptop gets even better

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