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do all version of surface book including the i5 with the price of 1500 as mentioned above have the nvidia dGPU? or an additional cost is needed? because i saw that in your benchmark the i5 version is stated with integrated GPU while the i7 version of surface book stated with NVIDIA's

and a quick question, how do you think of my english? thanks because it seems that i can't just passed my ielts test LoL
 
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There's an i5 w/o GPU version, an i5 w/ GPU version, and an i7 w/ GPU version.

Really, they should be selling it it like the Surface Pro - the tablet portion and the keyboard portion separately. That way you can pick if you want the i5 or i7 and what other specs like RAM and storage. Then you can pick if you want the keyboard with or without GPU. For bonus points, they should make another, bigger keyboard with a heftier fan and an nvidia 980m for the people who want portability without giving up gaming prowess. (The GPU they're using is roughly equivalent to a 940m, but with 1 GB of DDR5 VRAM).
 
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The probelm is the Clipboard alone get 3 hours of battery life and they would not sell any. Combined it gets over 11 hours. The DGPU is made specifically for the Surface Book.

The 1499 and 1699 don't have the DGPU and the 1899 and above do
 
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A 980M isn't going to make it fully gaming friendly, unless they also put another, beefier CPU in the keyboard as well. Just look up the first Alienware 13. They put a beefy GPU in it but paired it with a i5-4210U, which is pretty close to the 17W Skylakes they're putting in both the Pro and the Book. It was a disastrous case of a CPU bottlenecking a much stronger GPU, knocking the 860M in it to the equivalent of an 850M with an appropriate processor.
 
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I am willing to bet that the Surface Book 2 will feature an AMD Radeon RX-480M GPU! It has the same 35W TDP envelope as the existing Nvidia GTX-940M and is built with a 14nm fabrication process using AMD's latest technology. Furthermore, officially Nvidia hasn't announced any new generation mobile GPU's with power consumption less than 85 watts!
 
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However, Nvidia'd be idiotic not to. I guess for a company of which one of the core markets is gaming, it makes sense to work their way down to the more modest models like the, presumably, GTX 1040M
 
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