Microsoft Surface Book: The ultimate hybrid design? Potentially, a set of rubber feet on the underside would spoil the look, but it’d be a darn sight more practical. Given the lofty expectation set by Microsoft’s own marketing materials, this doesn’t strike me as the pinnacle of design brilliance. It’s not even that easy to do when you employ both hands. Put it on a desk, and it’s mightily tough to open the Surface Book one-handed without it sliding around. There are other little, but equally perplexing quibbles, too. It isn’t worryingly unstable, but at this price, I was expecting something rock-solid and engineered to within a micron-thin whisker of perfection – not something with a slightly wobbly hinge. The slight fore and aft wobble in the display adds to the feeling of something being not quite as it should be. I say largely because even here there are negatives to be found. Pick it up, and the cool-to-the-touch metal has a lovely silky texture, and while it weighs in at a fairly chunky 1.5kg, it largely feels like I’d expect a £2,249, 13.5in laptop to feel. Oddly, there’s something about the Surface Book that doesn’t look like a premium-priced slab of metal. Very, very nice-looking plastic – the premium kind – but plastic nonetheless. Although Microsoft’s literature indicates it’s cast from a painstakingly-crafted slab of pale silver magnesium, it initially looked to me as if it were made from fashionably grey plastic.
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