This year's Surface Book is much the same as last year's – but only from the waist up. Below the Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge on the Surface Book 2016 sits the all-new Performance Base, which packs bigger batteries, a redesigned cooling system and a GPU that Microsoft claims to be twice as powerful as last year's. I got the chance to see the Surface Book 2016 up close at Microsoft's big launch event in New York City last month, and now I've got a top-of-the-line Surface Book review unit in the Boston studio!

With Apple's elimination of the SD card reader and full-size USB ports on its new notebooks still grinding my gears, I'm scouring the market for a MacBook Pro alternative. Could the Surface Book Performance be my next notebook? Click on through to Part 1 of MrMobile's Surface Book 2016 review – and stay tuned for Part 2 coming next week!

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Part 1 of MrMobile's Surface Book Review 2016 was produced after 48 hours with a Microsoft Surface Book 2016 with Performance Base review unit on loan from Microsoft (Model 1703, 1785). Conclusions in Part 1 are preliminary only.

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Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base [Microsoft]:
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Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base [Amazon]:
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Microsoft Surface Book coverage at Windows Central:
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