You also get the same ports as its smaller sibling: 1 x USB-C, 1 x USB-A, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a Surface Connect port. Memory configurations top out at 512GB of storage, which is paired to 32GB of RAM, and you’re looking at the same battery life estimate of 11.5 hours with typical usage. Microsoft says that the AMD-based Surface Edition of the Ryzen (5 or 7) will allow for users to perform more graphic-intensive work as compared to the smaller Surface Laptop, such as 3D-rendering, Photoshop, or video-editing. But it's still sadd because my Retina MacBook (NOT Pro) performs better and it has not dedicated GPU and is half the price.The larger 15″ Surface Laptop 3, meanwhile, utilises an AMD chip for the first time on a Surface laptop. And to be fair to MS they demoed it cutting FULLHD footage not 4K. You will be disappointed unless you work with 1080p or below footage. So overall, I just don't feel like the Surface Book is very optimized for performance and for a video editor is a fine emergency machine but don't drop $2700 on it as your editing laptop. And then when I go to render out 4K, I switch the timeline resolution back to 4k and then render out with the clipboard detached as if the clipboard is attached I get GPU memory full errors. Once I generate the proxies it works fine. I have to run on proxies and optimized media and set the timeline to 1080P to edit. I was hoping CUDA was going to be much better. I didn't see a huge difference between CUDA and OpenCL. If you check the preferences, most of the time the NVIDIA GPU is automatically selected and being used with CUDA. That's not going to be buttery smooth but it will get you close and the best I have managed. In Premiere if you are working with 4K H264 footage then you will want to change scaling to 1/8 th resolution and use a 1080P timeline. But inside the apps it's a different story. The computer itself plays back 4k clips just fine outside of Premiere or Resolve (the two I use most). The surface book struggles in 4K and for me is only passable at 1080P when you have 4k footage. I normally shoot a mix of Red, Arri, and Sony. I am a professional Filmmaker and unfortunately I have just not gotten great performance out of my Surface Book.
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