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I placed the Surface Book on my carpeted floor (office-style, so a pretty low-pile carpet). Then I held onto my desk and chair. I lifted both feet off the ground and gingerly lowered them onto the clipboard side of the Surface Book -- my heels and the majority of my weight were rested on the hinge. I did not move my feet or jump and down, but the device survived my full body weight (roughly 150 pounds) resting on top of it. In short, I do not see a fundamental flaw in Microsoft’s unique hinge design. My Microsoft Surface Book review unit is a pre-production unit with its share of bugs and, it turns out, neither fish nor fowl. Its Core i5, 8GB of RAM, 512GB SSD storage space configuration is not among those Microsoft is offering for sale. More frustratingly, this unit does not have what I considered the Surface Book’s marquee feature: A discrete and more powerful Nvidia GeForce GPU in the base. Another unit featuring the Nvidia base, and a Core i7 CPU, arrived later in my test cycle. It's also worth noting that the extra graphic power adds a bit of weight, making the Surface Book 3.48 pounds. The idea is that the system can intelligently switch between Intel’s integrated HD Graphics 520 in the Clipboard and the Nvidia GPU in the base on an as-needed basis and, obviously, only when the tablet is connected to the base. So for more intense games like Gears of War and League of Legends, it should kick in.

Microsoft, though, is not positioning this $2,099 system as a gaming device. Instead, the company told me it will help support productivity apps like Adobe Premiere and Lightroom. In my limited experience, it was hard to see much of a difference with the Nvidia chip. In AutoCAD 360, for example, I had no trouble loading a fully rendered 3D CAD model of a motor with or without the Nvidia support. Also, where the clipboard failed to load a CAD file, the full Surface Book with the Nvidia base failed, as well.

After spending a little time with the more expensive Surface Book, which was so pre-production it crashed repeatedly, I'd probably still stick with the $1,499 Surface Book model. Its performance was excellent on day-to-day tasks like word processing, presentations, light gaming and videos. My chief complaint is that the Intel HD graphic driver crashed, sometimes spectacularly (blue screen!). I spend a lot of time typing and have experienced many different keyboard styles over the years. Microsoft Surface Book’s full-sized keyboard includes Chiclet-style keys that are well-spaced and have the perfect amount of travel and response. Typing on it is a satisfying experience (it’s also backlit, which makes it fantastic on a darkened train or dimly-lit meeting room).

Similarly, the Surface Book’s large, glass-covered touchpad is among the best I've ever used on a PC, rivaling those found on Apple MacBook Pros and Airs. It feels great and offered just the right level of response. I especially enjoyed using gestures, like the three-finger swipe up to access the desktop and all open apps. I could also drag my three fingers slowly across the large trackpad to reveal the apps and scroll through them until I landed on the one I wanted open on the screen.

Along with the smartly designed keyboard, a trackpad and lots of battery under the hood, the Surface Book base completes the laptop picture by adding two full-size USB 3.0 ports, an SD card slot, Mini DisplayPort and the Surface charging port. As you would expect, all of them worked without issue.

The Surface Book’s Clipboard screen is a full-blown 1.6-pound 0.30-inch-thick tablet featuring an impressive 3,000 x 2,000 resolution. The MacBook Pro Retina, by contrast has a 2,650 x 1,600 display and the 12.9-inch iPad Pro a 2,732 x 2,048 resolution. Surface Book's Clipboard has two buttons -- power and volume -- and a hidden magnet for keeping track of your redesigned Surface Pen. It also has a 5-megapixel Skype camera in front, which works well and includes face detection, and an 8-megapixel camera on the back. It takes decent photos, but the image quality pales in comparison to what you can get from the 8-megapixel iSight camera on the iPhone 6. Both Surface Book cameras can shoot 1080p video, though I’m not sure why you’d want to do that with such a big device.

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You can pick up the Surface Book by the screen -- as I often did -- and it will not detach from the base (no, you can’t wrench them apart). To separate the two units, you have two choices, hold down the physical Clipboard release button on the keyboard for two seconds or use its software counterpart located in the task tray. The benefit of using the software button is you don’t have to hold it down, but in either case, you’ll hear a satisfying click and see a message on screen indicating the screen is ready to be detached. Doing so reveals Microsoft’s usual connector system, which includes a set of three digital connectors in the center and a pair of magnetic connectors on the sides. Initially, I found it a little difficult to seat and unseat the Clipboard tablet, but eventually it became second nature. Those connectors, by the way, are bidirectional. I can take the whole tablet, flip in around, reattach it to the base, fold the Surface Book closed and now I have a beautifully designed drawing tablet.

Remember that oddball gap I mentioned above? It works to your advantage if you use the Surface Book as a note-taking or drawing surface. On the desk, in your lap or in the crook of your arm, the screen tips gently toward you. It’s not a perfect drawing angle, but pretty near it. In addition, the fact it’s a full-size tablet attached to that base and not some sort of jury-rigged hybrid means you have virtually the entire surface (no pun intended) to draw on.

More than half the excellent drawing and writing experience, however, is due to the Surface Pen. At a glance, Microsoft’s Surface Pen doesn’t look much different than the one Microsoft introduced with the first Surface Pro a few years ago. In reality, it’s longer and has a long flat edge with a strip of embedded rubber.

That rubber strip also hides a right-click button near the tip (the old Surface pen included two distinct buttons). Hidden inside the pen a strong magnet. You can place the pen on the left side of the tablet or the right side of the base, and it'll hold on tight. When I tried to remove the pen without holding onto the Surface Book, I ended up dragging the laptop along with the pen.

That’s not to say the pen can’t come off unexpectedly. When I carried around the Surface Book under my arm, I occasionally knocked the pen off. I’m still worried about losing it.The writing experience with the new Pen is sublime. Microsoft replaced the hard plastic tip with one that’s covered by a slightly softer, gray material. The result is a tip that glides over the PixelSense display, but never slips. Because the Surface Pen is a Bluetooth device, you don’t have to worry about keeping your palm off the screen when taking notes or drawing. I’m so used to drawing on an iPad that I had to remind myself that it was okay to rest my palm on the display.

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Want to search for an app, file or launch a Web search on the Surface Book? Write it. Microsoft touts its Windows digital assistant Cortana as a great way to get answers, but I had fun writing what I wanted to know. I would double tap in the Cortana space and then access a writing pane along the bottom edge of the screen. Whatever I wrote, the system's handwriting recognition would accurately interpret it and instantly find me a relevant app or result. For example, I wrote “My Schedule” to access my calendar, “Add a printer” to access Advanced Printer Setup and “Chicken Soup Recipe” to find recipes on the web. WINDOWS 10 SURFACES The Surface Book manages to expertly highlight all that’s good about Windows 10 (the best Windows in a decade).

As a device that’s both a laptop and a tablet, the Surface Book takes great advantage of Windows 10’s ability to effortlessly switch between desktop and tablet mode. The Cortana integration is smooth, and it’s the first Windows 10 computer that I do not have to yell at for Cortana to hear me. This was especially helpful when I set Cortana to respond whenever I say “Hey Cortana.”