Surface Book 2 Leak?

[Gabriel_Mata]

 

[Gabriel_Mata]

I find this photo, but I wonder how the kickstand work in this mockup

 

[baydude]

what should the next SB be released?

 

[Gabriel_Mata]

There is news that it will be release in this October

 

[zerospace-net]

This looks very fishy to me. It looks more like someone's pipe dream and less like something from MS, IMHO.

"Onboard wake button (use as unattached clipboard)"? That is odd wording. What is an "onboard wake button" and what does it have to do with detaching the clipboard? "MicroSD Explanation slot"? Uh-uh. That should be "expansion". 9 hour clipboard battery life? HA! This alone is reason to believe that this is fake. Lots of people want something like this, but I just don't see it. Reference to Type Covers? No hinge design reference? That's the Surface Pro line. People have suggested that MS should hybrid the two lines, but I really doubt they'd be doing it already and probably would not present it like this. The language & terminology is all wrong (even for a leak). And October for a release... I highly doubt it with redstone 2 being pushed off til early next year and the more probable launch of a Surface Phone this year.

This looks more like someone trying to hybrid the SP4 and the SB into one machine with perfect non-niche specs. While I may be proven wrong, I sincerely doubt that this is a leak at all, and it's just someone's cool idea of what they want to see in a next-gen Surface Book. Personally, I just want to see the next gen unit get all the bugs worked out of the first one before they try any of this.

 

[Gabriel_Mata]

You are right, I got this photo from Internet, it might just be someone's dream. I think that it is not possible to balance the clipboard without the hinge. But it is cool that if there is a microSD slot on the Clipboard, so that we can still assess the card while it is not connected to the base

 

[jorgeservin91]

It looks like an iPad/iPhone :eck:
A trolling render I guess...

 

[Qtweeder]

mockup != leak

 

[Dush Ku]

Clipboard with 9 hours battery and kickstand? Seems way too good to be true.

 

[orlbuckeye]

It's prototype. It could be what the SB 2 looks like or not.

 

[Lethal_NFS]

Having the pen docked in to the tablet would be a huge plus for me. I hate how it just sticks to the side like it does.

Still to soon to be talking about a SB2 though. I think they need to change the screen size to match a standard resolution. Too many apps and such appear much too small without the ability to stretch them.

Once all the bugs are fixed with the SB1, then Microsoft should start talking about a new Surface Book. I would also like to see a version where I can manually add a 2nd internal hdd to the dock.

 

[zerospace-net]

I think they need to change the screen size to match a standard resolution. Too many apps and such appear much too small without the ability to stretch them.

Doubtful that this will happen -- this is a high DPI display issue and if MS wants to compete with Apple products as they appear to be, they're not going to abandon high DPI displays anytime soon. Application makers need to fix their programs to display right on high DPI displays (Adobe finally did this in their CC versions of Photoshop, etc), and MS really needs to figure out how to make legacy programs appear better on them, but that's a windows issue and not a screen issue. I think this issue will be solved naturally as high DPI displays become the norm, but until that happens, this will be an issue.

Once all the bugs are fixed with the SB1, then Microsoft should start talking about a new Surface Book. I would also like to see a version where I can manually add a 2nd internal hdd to the dock.

Agreed, 1000%. My SB needs to quit shutting down during sleep, and it needs to resume from hibernation properly (windows hello camera...). Oh, and they really need to find and nuke the bottleneck in the USB3 hub in the base. It's awful.