Microsoft Surface Laptop and Surface Book 2 have officially been announced for the Indian market. The Surface Laptop was launched in June last year and came with Windows 10 S operating system. Both Surface Laptop and Surface Book 2 will be available across offline and online retail stores from today. Flipkart, Paytm, Amazon, etc will be selling both the laptops. Surface Laptop is priced at Rs 86,999 for the starting price, going up to Rs 233,999. While Surface Book 2 will start at Rs 1,37,999 (Core i5 version), prices will go up to Rs 295,999.
Surface Book 2 Price in India and variants
The Surface Book 2 will come in seven variants: four SKUs of the 13.5-inch version and three of the 15-inch variant. The starting RAM in the 13.5-inch variant will be 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD.
Prices of the various Surface Book 2 versions are:
13.5-inch with Intel Core i5, 256GB SSD and 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 620 at Rs 137,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 185,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 222,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 257,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 185,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 222,999
13.5-inch Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU at Rs 257,999
Moving on to the 15-inch variant of the Surface Book 2, the prices and specifications will look as listed below:
15-inch Intel Core i7, 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 at Rs 222,499
15-inch Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 at Rs 258,999
15-inch Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 at Rs 295,999
15-inch Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 at Rs 258,999
15-inch Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 at Rs 295,999
Microsoft Surface Laptop Prices in India, and variants
Surface Laptop with Intel Core i5, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 620 will start at Rs 86,999. Microsoft is not bringing the Intel Core M variants to India with 4GB RAM, which had a lower starting price.
Then Surface Laptop with Intel Core i5, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 620 will cost Rs 114,999. Surface Laptop with Intel Core i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 will cost Rs 144,999.
Surface Laptop with Intel Core i7, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 will cost Rs 196,999. Finally the most expensive variant of the Surface Laptop with Intel Core i7, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640 will cost Rs 233,999.
Surface Book 2 Basic Specifications
Surface Book 2 has a touch-enabled screen and is powered by the Intel Core i7 8th generation processor. The Core i5 is the seventh generation processor from Intel. Microsoft is promising 17 hours of battery life with this laptop. Microsoft says Surface Book 2 is the premium device in their series. It comes in the 13.5-inch and 15-inch variants with up to 16GB RAM and 1TBB of storage space. It also has the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050/1060 GPU on Core i7 models.
Surface Book 2 can be detached from the keyboard and used entirely as a tablet. The Surface Book 2 has an improved dynamic fulcrum hinge, which supports the laptop in its various modes.
Surface Laptop Basic Specifications
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop sports a thinner, lighter design than the Surface Book 2. It runs Windows 10 S, which loads much faster than the regular Windows 10. Another feature of Windows 10 S is that it can only run apps from the Windows Store, which are verified by Microsoft.
Microsoft Surface Laptop is launching in five variants. The base version is powered by Intel Core i5 version along with Intel HD Graphics 620. Surface Laptop sports a 13.5-inch PixelSense Display, with 2256 x 1504 pixels resolution, which comes to 201 PPI. The display supports 10 point multi-touch, and has a 3:2 aspect ratio. It also supports Surface Pen like the Surface Book 2.
It also has an Alcantara covering over the keyboard for a more premium look. Dimensions for this Surface Laptop are 308.1 mm x 223.27 mm x 14.48 mm, and it weighs 1.252 grams. It has a USB 3.0 port, headset jack, Mini DisplayPort, Surface Connect port, and is compatible with Surface Dial and the Surface Dock as well. Microsoft is promising 14 hours of battery life with the laptop.
Surface Laptop comes with Windows Hello face the sign-in camera, 720p HD camera (front-facing) stereo microphones. It also has discreetly hidden Omnisonic speakers with Dolby Audio Premium. On the WiFi front, it has 802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking; IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible and it also supports Bluetooth 4.0 LE.
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