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jrs95 on Aug 27, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Life and Death of the Touch Bar: Revisiting th...

The Surface Book design is just silly to me. By putting the CPU in the display they've limited it's CPU performance a lot. A 13" MBP will outperform it on CPU bound tasks. It has 28W TDP processors instead of 15W like the Surface Book (and the Surface Pro).

bryik on Aug 27, 2017 [–]

If they put the CPU in the keyboard, it wouldn't be able to detach.

jrs95 on Aug 27, 2017 | [–]

Why does it need to detach? The battery life without the keyboard is awful, and the firmware that supports this is pretty buggy.

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