Microsoft’s updated Surface Book is a big, powerful brute of a laptop

A year ago, Microsoft set out to prove to the world that a Windows laptop could hang with the best MacBooks from Apple. The Surface Book, with its head-turning design, wild hinge technology, and detachable screen was just that laptop. Microsoft largely succeeded: though it wasn’t perfect, the Surface Book showed that a powerful, well-designed, and attractive Windows laptop was possible.
A year later, the company hasn’t changed much with the Surface Book formula, not that it really ha