> They got the new 8th gen i7 into the display half (which they failed to do for the new Surface Pro which seems like an odd omission).
8th gen intel processors were not out when the new Surface Pro released. And they had to release it because it was long overdue since SP4.
> On the road my 12" Surface Book is a bit too little screen area and so I use my 15" macbook pro 2015 for that. The 15" version of the surface book 2 would be a win there but at 4.2lbs my shoulder will complain. (I briefly had the 4+ pound Sony VAIO and it was painful enough that I just never took it on trips as powerful as it was.)
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2. NiteFury (M.2 2280 with XC7A200T and 8Gb DDR3): https://www.crowdsupply.com/rhs-research/nitefury