Patent and Trademark Office show Microsoft was playing with adding a secondary touchscreen to the keyboard half of a device, with a detachable screen that looks just like the Surface Book 3. Previous patents, though, have hinted that the Surface Book 3 could pick up some sort of secondary display. That might include a new charging port, though the Surface Book 2 already included two USB-A ports, a USB-C port, and Microsoft’s proprietary Surface Connect port. It’s believed that Microsoft will instead focus on the internal aspect of the Surface Book 3, with “slight” modifications to the exterior. As per Sams of, a reliable Microsoft reporter, the Surface Book 3 won’t look much different from its predecessors. Microsoft is planning to release the dual-screen Surface Neo and Duo in late 2020, but evidence suggests that the Surface Book 3 might not be as drastically different as we hoped. Same design, but new charging ports Mark Coppock/Digital Trends The timing is a bit similar to what Microsoft did in April 2019 when it refreshed the Surface Book 2 with an option for the eighth-generation quad-core Intel Core i5-8350U processor. That doesn’t mean these products won’t get launched in some way around this same time. The company recently offered new options to buy a 15-inch model without discrete Nvidia graphics, at only $2,000, an acknowledgment that there’s a demand for the larger screen at a lower price.Īs for a release date, Microsoft could be announcing the Surface Book 3 and the Surface Go 2 at an event in New York City this spring, but the coronavirus is likely to force those plans to change. In fact, there are signs that Microsoft wants to make pricing more flexible, if possible.

This is already a fairly high baseline, and one Microsoft probably doesn’t want to change. According to reports from Brad Sams at, the pricing on the Surface Book 3 could also be in the same ballpark, starting at around $1,400 for baseline configurations. Right now, the 13.5-inch Book 2 model starts at around $1,200 and the 15-inch model at around $2,500, scaling up to higher prices based on spec choices. We expect Microsoft to leave the pricing of the Surface Book line largely the same.

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