This year's Surface Book is much the same as last year's – but only from the waist up. Below the Dynamic Fulcrum Hinge on the Surface Book 2016 sits the all-new Performance Base, which packs bigger batteries, a redesigned cooling system and a GPU that Microsoft claims to be twice as powerful as last year's. I got the chance to see the Surface Book 2016 up close at Microsoft's big launch event last month, and now I've got a top-of-the-line Surface Book review unit in the Boston studio! With Apple's elimination of the SD card reader and full-size USB ports on its new notebooks still grinding my gears, I'm scouring the market for a MacBook Pro alternative. Could the Surface Book Performance be my next notebook? Check out Part 1 of this review series here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2ganIK0cY], then take in Part 2 of MrMobile's Surface Book 2016 review above! [SUBSCRIBE] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOpcUkE-is7u7c4AkLgqTw [ABOUT THIS VIDEO] Part 2 of MrMobile's Surface Book Review 2016 was produced after one week with a Microsoft Surface Book 2016 with Performance Base review unit on loan from Microsoft (Model 1703, 1785). Part 1 of this review can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2ganIK0cY [PRODUCTS IN THIS VIDEO] Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base [Microsoft]: http://mrmobile.tech/3s Microsoft Surface Book with Performance Base [Amazon]: http://mrmobile.tech/3r [FURTHER READING] Microsoft Surface Book Performance Base review at Windows Central: http://www.windowscentral.com/surface-book-performance-base [MUSIC] "The Ballad of MrMobile." Mobile Nations, 2016 "Financial District" by Olive Musique, available at Premium Beat: http://www.premiumbeat.com/royalty_free_music/songs/financial-district [SOCIALIZE] http://facebook.com/themrmobile http://instagram.com/themrmobile http://twitter.com/themrmobile https://www.snapchat.com/add/mrmobilesnaps http://mrmobile.tech/ [DISCLOSURE] This post may contain affiliate links. See Mobile Nations' disclosure policy for more details: http://www.mobilenations.com/external-links