{"id":21996,"date":"2018-07-02T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21996"},"modified":"2018-07-04T16:16:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T20:16:54","slug":"surface-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/surface-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Book 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/char.gd\/blog\/2018\/the-surface-book-2-is-everything-the-macbook-pro-should-be-and-then-some\">Owen Williams<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ow\/status\/1011963375046316032\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/char.gd\/blog\/2018\/the-surface-book-2-is-everything-the-macbook-pro-should-be-and-then-some\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m back to say I was wrong, and I&rsquo;ve found a machine that not only matches Apple&rsquo;s standard of hardware quality, but goes far beyond it to demonstrate how a laptop of the <em>future <\/em>should work. <\/p>\n<p>That machine is the 15-inch Surface Book 2 and somehow Microsoft has made the 2-in-1 that Apple should&rsquo;ve been building all along, to the same level of quality I&rsquo;d expect from anyone other than Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve used the Surface Book 2 as my daily computer for three months now and it&rsquo;s consistently blown me away with how well considered it is across the board, how great the software works and has completely converted me into the touchscreen laptop camp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Update (2018-07-04): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1014538261493092352\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcoarment\/status\/1014538261493092352\">\n<p>The Huawei Matebook X (the one with the pop-up camera in the function keys) looks and feels like it&rsquo;s an entire generation ahead of Apple.<\/p>\n<p>13.9&rdquo; 3000x2000 screen, almost no bezel, in the same size and weight as the 13&rdquo; MBP. A nice-feeling low-travel keyboard. 2 USB-C, 1 USB-A.<\/p>\n<p>If this ran macOS, I&rsquo;d buy it in a second.<\/p>\n<p>The Surface Book 2 is also the real deal. Massive 15&rdquo; 3:2 screen, detachable to a great-feeling tablet with a great pen that stows easily.<\/p>\n<p>Touch\/tablet-hybrid laptops aren&rsquo;t just the future &mdash; they&rsquo;re the present. Apple&rsquo;s either being coy about future products or is in denial.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Williams (tweet): I&rsquo;m back to say I was wrong, and I&rsquo;ve found a machine that not only matches Apple&rsquo;s standard of hardware quality, but goes far beyond it to demonstrate how a laptop of the future should work. That machine is the 15-inch Surface Book 2 and somehow Microsoft has made the 2-in-1 that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-04T20:16:56Z","apple_news_api_id":"bbb0ff4e-a65d-4fae-877b-95dca16b3797","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-04T20:16:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Au7D_TqZdT66He5XcoWs3lw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[452,37,785,219],"class_list":["post-21996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-hardware","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-surface","tag-windows"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22019,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21996\/revisions\/22019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}