Microsoft’s new Surface Book looks very much like the old one

Microsoft surprised everyone with a refresh of its Surface Book today, but it's not a design overhaul at all. At an event in New York City this morning, I got a chance to get a closer look at the new Surface Book, and it looks very much like the same model from last year.

Microsoft's big reason for refreshing the Surface Book is to give it more battery life and an Nvidia GeForce GTX 965M GPU. Microsoft is claiming up to 16 hours of battery life in total, thanks to more space for the battery itself and a redesigned cooling system. That makes it slightly heavier and slightly thicker than the original, at 3.63 pounds compared to 3.48 pounds for the original model. Unfortunately, it doesn't have Intel's latest Kaby Lake processors inside,...

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