The market wants two-pound OLED machines, but I want a Surface Book.
, which ostensibly replaced it, is a weird, heavy folding thing that also has battery life problems. There is no longer anything on the market that fills the niche the Surface Book did.Now, I’m sure Microsoft has done its market research.
If it decided not to refresh the Surface Book, it’s probably because it wasn’t selling. I’m not necessarily here to argue that Microsoft was wrong to put the Surface Book on the back burner. What Isaying is that it’s a shame the form factor didn’t sell, and it’s a shame it was never available at a lower price point, because I think a lot of people would’ve liked it.of people who would’ve benefitted from this device. I know that because I know all kinds of people who own both a chunky GPU-powered laptop and a tablet. These aren’t people who are regularly running, who assume that gaming stuff needs to happen on a desk at home, while the tablet is what comes out and about. I also know people who use a Surface Pro as their primary driver but complain that the detachable keyboard is flimsy. I know people who use budget gaming laptops but complain that they’re too heavy. I know so,I think many of these customers just didn’t know about the Surface Book’s existence during its golden years of the late 2010s and have just never considered that one device could meet all of their needs. Others may have known about it but determined that it was too expensive for the specs it offered or that a few of the kinks that Microsoft never really worked out were disqualifying. I think the Surface Book 2 could’ve made a difference in these people’s lives. I think a Surface Book 4 still could. If Microsoft could fix some of the issues that lingered with the Book 3 — lack of Thunderbolt, for example, the wobbly screen, the limited offerings of Windows’s tablet mode, the, the disconnection bugs that were known to pop up here and there, and the various dated aspects of its design — I think a Book 4 could’ve been one of the better laptops on the market. Even those issues remained, a Book 4 still would’ve served a need that no other 13-incher could.Laptops are a mature market. And they’ve gotten less innovative. That’s the same trend we see with other sorts of gadget categories as they mature. Look at mobile. “Smartphones may be boring now, but that’s only because they’ve been so good for so long,”
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