Microsoft just made it official: the new Surface Book 2 will be available starting November 16 in two sizes — 13 inches and 15 inches — and they'll pack NVIDIA GTX 1050 and 1060 GPUs and USB ...

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Microsoft is putting a compatibility hold on its Windows 10 May 2019 update for some of its Surface Book 2 laptops due to an issue where the discrete Nvidia GPU can vanish from the device manager ...

The Nvidia GTX 1060 supports VR gaming. Due to the 2-in-1 nature of the Surface Book 2, the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive aren’t officially supported. You can still use Microsoft’s latest Windows ...

The Surface Book. Image source: Microsoft. Microsoft 's(NASDAQ ... a stand-alone graphics processor from graphics specialist NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) , which allows the Surface Book to pull ahead ...

Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 has a power problem ... By default, at its highest-performance mode, the Surface Book 2’s Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 chip runs at about 1.4GHz. After a few hours ...

Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 aspires to repeat the original Surface ... discrete, powerful Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 and 1060 GPUs, mounted in the base. There’s even a first for Microsoft ...

Externally, Microsoft is keeping the Surface Book 3 the same from 2017 ... On average, it yields a 40 percent boost over the Book 2's GTX 1060. NVIDIA last refreshed the GTX 1660 Ti in April ...

Microsoft's Surface Book 2 is an even stronger MacBook Pro competitor ... but if you opt for the NVIDIA GPU it jumps up to 3.68 pounds. The similarly-sized MacBook Pro wins out when it comes ...

The Surface Book 2 was getting a bit long in the tooth, announced in October of 2017. And though it received a minor spec bump in 2019, it was still behind the curve considering it’s Microsoft ...

The Surface Book 3 models with i7 processors will benefit from discrete Nvidia GPUs ... about the Surface Go 2 were on the money, with the most affordable of Microsoft’s Surface range pushing ...

The Surface Book 3 is Microsoft's hybrid 2-in-one laptop that can be used as ... while the i7 models feature NVIDIA GeForce 1650 graphics. Memory starts at 8 gigabytes and is upgradable to 32 ...