orlbuckeye
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I love my Surface Book. The only problem i had was store, mail and camera app not working I figured it was a corrupt profile and created a new profile with admin right and it works fine.
Like at least one other person here, I've begun to resign myself to the idea that the Surface Book will always be a buggy machine -- the buggiest machine I've owned since the Windows 98 PC-era.
I am a fairly new owner. When I first turned mine on, the brightness level was so low it was nearly impossible to do the initial setup. Finally got to the desktop and was able to get it up. I immediately loaded ALL updates. I did NOT load GeForce experience and want to just rely on what Microsoft certifies.
On a whole, this machine is AWESOME. I do have the occasional Windows Hello not working but it is rare. Otherwise, this has been an amazing experience.
First off; the turnout for this thread has been incredible. I gotta thank everyone who's given either critical or praising comments.
To be completely honest, I came into this with much reservation. The Surface Book is far more than I need. I play some simple Windows Store games, engage in social media, study and code... but IDEs (to the capacity I use them, anyway) nor anything I do have ever really called for me to have a powerhouse... and I learned that to an even greater degree when I ditched my Surface Pro 3 for a Surface 3 and found that all the software I needed ran without a hiccup.
But I knew that from the get go... I'm a father of two, homeowner, full time student and overtime worker who gives no damns about media editing and has no time to be a core gamer anymore. I know I'm more fitted for the class of buyers who sink like $229 into an ASUS X551 with a craptastic little Pentium; this would be purely a "I'm stressed out, I need some retail therapy, I want it, so I'm goddamned buying it" purchase - and thanks to you guys - I've decided to buy a Surface Book!
Disposable funds finally got to where I wanted them, and just in time to snatch it when a deal for a $1300 no tax, free shipping Core i5 256GB dGPU Surface Book went live... which, if my tax calculation is right, means I just saved about $700.
Soon enough, I'll be here with you all in team Surface Book! I'm so excited, and hope to add my testimonial so hopefully someone else on the fence will be helped with their decision.
Best price I could find for the config on eBay. I got extremely lucky on that, and don't think I could pull off that kinda timing again... the lowest I see now for that config is $1500... which is still very nice considering that MSRP even with a student discount would be higher (and taxed).Congrats. May I ask where you got that deal from? That was the SB configuration I was looking at as well. Been leaning towards waiting for the gen 2 version, but at that price I may reconsider.
Surface book is awesome. Windows 10 is still kind of janky
Best price I could find for the config on eBay. I got extremely lucky on that, and don't think I could pull off that kinda timing again... the lowest I see now for that config is $1500... which is still very nice considering that MSRP even with a student discount would be higher (and taxed).
I'm a father of two, homeowner, full time student and overtime worker who gives no damns about media editing and has no time to be a core gamer anymore.
i had so many blue screen errors its comical at this point.on top of that battery life is just average. I can go on and on about issues with this laptop..
Umm... no. Windows 10 actually seems to be fine. It runs perfectly on my skylake-based desktop PC and my little HP Stream 7. It's the Surface Book that is "janky", IMHO. I thought the same thing as you until I installed Win10 on my desktop, but seeing it run so well there made me realize that its the SB firmware and drivers that are the root of the SB's issues.
Welcome to the club, TLRtheory! I have the same configuration (i5/256/dGPU), only I wish I had paid that price for it. I hope you're coming in on the tail end of the worst of the problems, but I suspect we have at least a few more months of crap until Intel & MS sort out the sleep and update corruption problems.
Ok I guess what I mean by Surface book was everything physical about it. Screen, keyboard, trackpad, form factor, how it works, pen, etc.
Driver issues I feel are separate from that stuff. But fortunately those issues have been minimal in my experience.