Can the Microsoft Surface Book Compete with Macbook Pro?

Recently Microsoft has been steadily getting into the hardware game with products like the Windows Phones and the Microsoft Surface Pro Tablet line.

This has been different from their past strategy of letting other hardware vendors handle this while they focus on their Windows Software. This sets them up to directly compete with what people have always loved about Apple products, knowing the hardware and software are coming from the same source and work together seamlessly and lack Bloatware.

Microsoft Surface Book- Photo by Microsoft Press

The new Microsoft Surface Book is the latest of these products and is positioned as a direct competitor to the Macbook Pro or rather as long as we’re talking about the 13″ MPB and 13″ MSB. I’m not only impressed with the specs, but with the marketing and positioning. Watch their ad and tell me you don’t feel like this ad feels like something Apple should have done for the last Macbook Pro release…

Review of the Microsoft Surface Book

Mashable did a review of the Microsoft Surface Book. In truth I’m hoping to find a way to do my own review of this product directly. I’m debating like many of you between getting this laptop and the new 2016 MacBook Pro, but honestlyt he features and design of this laptop on top of the specs are making that a very difficult choice…

Microsoft Surface Book Ports

Two full-size USB 3.0
Full-size SD card reader
Surface Connect
Headset jack
Mini DisplayPort

Microsoft Surface Book- Photo by Microsoft Press

Some Final Thoughts on the Microsoft Surface Book

I feel that the Microsoft Surface Book is a “Creation Device” it is essentially the power of a 13″ Macbook Pro combined with a Wacom Tablet and iPad. It has great cameras for video conferencing in Full HD, the ability to allow you to naturally and intuitively draw and take advantage of creative apps like the Adobe Software, and still handle productivity and business task. So if you’re a creative that wants or needs to work in Windows, you get to do it on a beautiful piece of hardware that has creative professionals in mind… an area that Apple has been slacking on aside from the Operating System and sleek looking hardware. the Microsoft Surface Book has the “Execution of Creative” as a priority, rather than just as a matter of tradition since Apple has moved to catering to the average consumer (he said while typing this on his iMac desktop).

The Macbook Pro vs the Microsoft Surface Book

To be honest though considering this product is not fully competitive with the 15″ Macbook Pro and they do not have a version of if that will yet. the Macbook Pro 15″ has a Quad Core i7 Processor and there is no contest between that and the Dual Core i7 of the Microsoft Surface Book. The Macbook Pro would be Twice as fast or more in that instance. So while I think the product that Microsoft came up with in the Surface Book Pro for a first generation product, I don’t think it’s matured enough to move creatives away from Apple and the Macbook Pro yet. However creatives who prefer Windows and do not want to move to Apple will rejoice at having an option that is powerful and allows them to create and have a beautiful aesthetic and unique features.

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