Apple may be the world’s most valuable tech company, with Microsoft coming a distant third, but when it comes to making computers, that gap may be about to get narrowed down.
Many of you probably only know Microsoft as that software company that owns and runs the Windows operating system and other suite of tools on your Hewlett Packard (HP), Compaq, Acer and so on, laptops and desktop computers.
While by volume of products sold computers running the Windows OS lead in the market, but Apple’s OS devices are used by folks who consider themselves “best in class” – designers, programmers and writers.
However, even that description is about to change as the company has launched its own laptop-tablet brand – Surface Book.
Well, it seems that Microsoft saved the best for last judging by the specifications that their flagship laptop brand boasts of.
For example, the Surface Book, among other mouth-watering features, comes with a distinctive feature not common to many laptop brands – it separates!
The hinge, with its flexible “dynamic fulcrum” design is one of the truly unique design elements here.
This means that you can detach and move around with its 13.5 inches screen/monitor without having to bother about the rest of the laptop.
It means that gamers can play their games flawlessly without sitting; you can show your spouse a picture in the other room without having to carry the whole 1.5kg weight; can go out to show a client a design with its 700grams tablet half; and, can read on your bed with the tablet without the discomfort of having to move with the whole package.
Aside this unique feature, the laptop-tablet which was announced on Tuesday in New York, US also boasts a:
- 13.5-inch screen that delivers six million pixels at 267 pixels per inch
- Precision glass, multitouch trackpad
- Machined magnesium body, fabricated from a single billet
- Newly designed, quiet, comfortable, and backlit keyboard
- PCle 3.0 solid-state drive, with up to 1 TB of storage
- Intel Core i5 or i7
- Nvidia GeForce GPU with 16 GB of storage, 8 or 16 GB of RAM
- 12 hour battery life
- 5-megapixel front-facing camera plus an 8-megapixel rear camera that can record 1080p HD video.
The price however varies depending on the size of the hard drive. The 128 GB model costs $1,499 (N298,301 at N199 to $1) while the 1TB option goes up to $2,699 (N537,101 at N199 to $1 ).
The Surface Book will be released on October 26.