Unfortunately, the machine doesn’t ship with a Thunderbolt port and therefore, you won’t be able to connect external GPU enclosures to the device.

Therefore, I’ll recommend you handle the machine with utmost care.Īs for the ports, the company has furnished the Surface Book 2 with two USB Type-A 3.1 ports, a USB Type-C 3.1 port, a full-sized SD card reader and a headphone jack which has been positioned towards the right-hand fascia of the display. As a matter of fact, teardown masters at iFixIt gave the Surface Book 2 a lowly score of just 1 / 10 in their reparability scale. That said, a trade-off of the laptop’s unibody construction is that you cannot pry it open to upgrade the innards. Correspondingly, there’s absolutely zero flex in and around the laptop’s base or even the display for that matter. Speaking of which, the machine has been constructed in entirety using magnesium which feels pleasing to the eye and to the touch. It’s not the heaviest or even the slimmest in the market but the laptop’s unparalleled build quality and its stunning design more than make up for it. It’s unlike any other Windows machine I’ve laid my sights on and the laptop features a distinctive look which is top-drawer, to say the least.

Quite frankly, I’m so enamoured by the machine’s design that I could run out of adjectives complimenting the Book 2’s aesthetics. The company nailed the design with its first-gen model and consequently, the Surface Book 2 is a thing of beauty. Microsoft’s latest entrant doesn’t do a whole lot to differentiate itself from its predecessor and for good reason.

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