So
today was Microsoft's Surface 4 and Lumia event, to be honest we weren't expecting much but woah! Was we were blown away or were we blown away, Surface
pro 4, Surface Book, new Lumia 950 and 950XL, virtual reality gaming with hollo
lens and plenty of other stuff, but these things in short made me regret buying
a laptop and phone both recently. When the event started today Microsoft
finally appeared to be a whole new company, a company that once led innovation
and seems to be back in form to do again but this didn’t just happen today with
Microsoft’s event but has been undergoing for a long time as Satya Nadella’s
master plan to restore Microsoft’s supremacy with introduction of windows 10,
new office 2016, Microsoft’s embracement of rival platforms and concentration on
quality and innovation to the core. Microsoft has a whole new language in short
and I’ve already been stunned and can’t wait to see what more Microsoft will
come up with as of now here’s why we are drooling over the new MS products.
Surface Book
First of all, Surface book, okay we’re biased in writing and numbering
right now why? Because the Surface book has us totally in love with it. The Surface
book comes with a 13.5” 2k screen with a good 267 pixels per inch. Microsoft
says the screen is optically bonded to glass which will produce better colours
and true quality renders but we have to yet see how it fares up against the
retina screen on the Mac-book and the iPad pro (our money is on the Surface
book) the laptop slash tablet itself is made up of magnesium which has become a
standard for almost all Microsoft Surface tablets. The Surface book comes with
the latest 6th generation Intel processors you can get either an i5
version or an i7 version. The Surface book includes additional power in the
keyboard stand wait for it…. Wait for it…. Yes, it has an additional NVidia GPU!!
With GDDR5 dedicated memory but as of yet we don’t know which GPU it is we got
our fingers crossed for a GTX 980M the keyboard dock very well might host additional
storage space too speaking of which the dock includes an SD card slot and USB 3.0
ports and has a unique way of attaching and detaching from the screen called "dynamic fulcrum” by MS. Microsoft says it’ll be more than twice
as fast as the Mac-book pro but we will have to wait and see that for
ourselves. The Surface Book will cost you around $1499, it isn't cheap but it
is definitely worth it. (and here I was, thinking love at first sight doesn't exist)
Surface Pro 4
Now proceeding to the
Surface Pro 4. Now we all knew this was coming unlike the Surface book which
was an amazing surprise. The Surface Pro 4 is predecessor of last year’s
Surface Pro 3 which was received well by people and reviewer so were the other
two earlier iterations. It has a 12.3” 2k screen with gorilla glass 4, 6th
generation Intel i7 and i5, a special G5 chipset from Microsoft to handle
optical stack, 16 GB memory an all knew improved keyboard cover (existing Surface
pro 3 covers will work with it too) and storage up to 1TB but according to
Microsoft the main centre of attention here is the new Surface Pen which it
says has 1024 pressure point sensitivity allowing the pen to write and sketch like
a real life pen and the it feels just like ink flowing on paper or glass in
this case. Microsoft showed that the surface pen has an eraser as it quite
obviously mocked the Apple pencil. Microsoft went off to say it didn’t even
want to compare it to the rival tablets as they are simply not in the same
class. Microsoft did say that it’s faster than the Mac-book air around 50%
faster. You can buy the Surface pro 4 for $899 on October 26th.
Lumia 950 and 950XL
Moving on Microsoft also
debuted the new Lumia phones today, the Lumia 950 and 950XL with continuum. The
new Lumia phones give us a vision into what other Microsoft Windows’s powered phones
should look and work like they also set a standard for other manufacturers. The
larger of the two is 950XL which supports continuum, which basically means your
phone can turn into an almost and I emphasize almost here, Windows’s PC when
connected to a larger display. Lumia 950Xl has a 5.7” 2k QHD screen 32GB space,
4GB Ram and Snapdragon 810, while the 950 has 5.2” screen 3GB Ram and 32GB
storage, more impressive thing is they have liquid cooling now we don’t know if
phones need that but this will definitely help keep the snapdragon 810 cool in
the 950XL both phones have a 20MP primary camera with triple led flash, 5th
gen optical image stabilization, dedicated camera button and a 5MP front
shooter.
Gaming with Hololens
Now these weren’t the
only things Microsoft showcased they also showcased new Games for Xbox and
gaming on hollo lens which was pretty impressive, Hollo Lens can sense the environment
around you and allow gaming according to that Microsoft showed a demo of how
robots came through walls and you had a Hollo graphic gadget on your hand and
you could fight them off, the game sensed the walls and environment around you
and moulded the experience according to it, it all felt very real.
Microsoft had a great Tech event not just in it's own case for itself but also for us, we enjoyed every bit of and can't wait to get our hands on the new gadgets specially the likes of the Surface Book. It is good to see Microsoft innovating something it was completely unaware of in recent few years call it the Ballmer effect or what ever but Microsoft is officially out of it and coming back to fight Apple and Google in a way it has never done before by actually supporting other platforms and accepting their dominance while putting their own services first a more Google like approach. Apple showcased the iPad pro recently but with Microsoft's event done, we know that it can't and won't beat the Surface Pro same goes for Google's pixel C but we might actually see the Surface Book challenge the Mac-book Pro to a high extent. Once more we were blown away by the Microsoft event and can't wait to see what else Microsoft has in stock.
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