 The Surface Book 3 is here and as you guys know we're going to do a review on this device but we're going to focus a lot on gaming and performance so without wasting any more time let's start doing some gaming. Microsoft Surface Book line has grown over the years and the third generation is here we have the 15 inch variant in the house I want to thank Microsoft for sending the device over now the 15 inch Surface Book and the 13 inch Surface Book look really similar to last year's variants honestly design-wise hasn't changed much but you can expect that when it's really going to change from Microsoft but I'll still say it's a good looking device now pricing for the Surface Book line starts at $15.99 with a 13.5 inch variant while the 15 inch variant starts at $2,299 the unit we have from Microsoft here is priced at $2,799 and it comes with the 10th Gen Core i7 which is a quad core processor we also have 32 gigabytes of RAM but it starts at 16 now storage is 512 gigabytes and this also comes with a GTX 1660 Ti with 6 gigabytes of tdr5 RAM so you've got all that packed into this device and talked about design what you have for ports connectivity all that fun stuff so on the left hand side on the base you do have two USB 3.1 ports USB A and then we also have an SD card slot on that side which is nice so it's great to have that on the right hand side we have the proprietary port for charging which uses a 127 watt charger I do like that they've kept it even though some people don't like it but you know every laptop company has a different port to try except Apple which is actually cool that they have USB Type-C for charging while there's also USB Type-C Gen 2 3.1 as well for connectivity so you have that on the base the display is a 4K display it's a lovely looking display you've got speakers all around there's a headphone jack on the right hand side a power and a volume one and it's got two cameras it's called Windows Hello I love Windows Hello it's so easy to just walk up your device is unlocked I like it it's great I wish every laptop had it it's much easier than fingerprint sensor anything it just it just works so I like that feature built in now that keyboard is cool I gotta say before we even get into any gaming especially even while you're trying to use it to game the keyboard is great for typing it's probably one of the best keyboards I've used when I started typing I was like wow this is pretty good it feels comfortable it's easy to use and it works really well the trackpad is also really smooth the keyboard is backlit as well so of course you're writing at night that will also work but I wish this device was actually in matte black because I would love to see this in the matte black variant especially just with the keyboard lighting and all that fun stuff now the surface book is a tune one device not just a tune one as a flip-up it's a detachable display tell me any other laptop where you can basically detach it walk away take it start reading browsing the web you know 10 finger touch all that fun stuff or using the surface pen which is not provided with this device I kind of found that is about my especially for what you're paying for and the price levels here is that it should have been bundled in it just wasn't and that's something that I was a little bit disappointed but surface pen we know how good it is we've used it in the past and that will be something you could use quite easily but also just reviewing content and watching on that screen speaking of content we care about games so we talked about all the specs everything that's in there how is gaming performance and what does it bring to the table especially if you're buying something like a surface book you're thinking about it for work because also Microsoft house it'd be pretty massive battery life of 17.5 hours we'll talk about a battery life in this video as well but how is gaming performance you've got a 1660 ti we're going to check out games like Call of Duty Warzone Grand Theft 105 Apex season five as well Street of Rage 4 which is a great game to play and Halo anniversary edition just a quick caveat though the drivers are not the most up to date G4 drivers it's just one off I got that information while trying to play Call of Duty Warzone so just put that in mind when you're seeing performance and all that stuff from this device so let's go ahead and see some of the games I want to see though this thing can actually game it's not meant to be a gaming device being pretty well and if you're going to pick up the surface book three especially for work and for creative tools whether you're editing your drawing this will do the job for you quite well as a gamer now I will point this out first of all it runs really loud fans do spin-up biplane games so it's best thing to play with a headset although even playing without a headset I was it kind of drowns out at some point performance wise roughly around 60 frames a second for all games of course certain games dipped but again again drivers are not up to date fully so that's just something to bear in mind now in terms of temperatures it does run warm both display and the base again think about it this way or the the base has the GTX and of course the display has your Intel chipset in there so that's something to take note now some of you ask can you also game just with the tablet in tablet mode alone and yes you can there's some games can play the easier games but games like Street of Rage will run quite well remember it still has an Intel Iris pro grad GPU in there so that should be able to play certain games for you and Street of Rage 4 handles that really well I love that game you should definitely go ahead and check it out now there's so much more to this device than just gaming or just doing creative work like as I mentioned it's got two cameras that are recorded 1080p the cameras of course useful windows are low and I want you to just take a look and see how well the cameras and the microphones work especially for video conferencing because we're doing that quite a lot right now so let's take a look so this is what the front facing camera of the surface book 3 looks like especially if you're using this for video chats I think it does a good job in representing myself background and doesn't feel like a traditional webcam because it shoots at 1080p you do have a rear camera as well which we can take a look at quickly which looks a little bit like this also using the microphones off the surface book 3 to give you an idea of what it sounds like using this for webcam calls since we're going to be doing a lot of that nowadays that was actually pretty cool great camera performance both front and back I like that and we also heard audio quality from the speakers now I will say for me the speakers are not super loud but they're loud enough remember they are around the display and not by the base of this device because of course when you put in tablet mode it goes right there for you to listen and I think you know when you're watching content you're watching videos whether it's in tablet mode or in tech mode or whatever mode you want to put it in you get some really good sound but you also get some really good performance from this device now this device is not for everyone I have to put that caveat here now as I mentioned you can improve your graphics to something like a fossil quattro especially if you're doing more graphical design work and things like that but it's probably not needed now some of you say yes they're different laptops in different price ranges and that's very true you know we've seen some great stuff from ASUS we've seen in the new Dell XPS's I would say this fits into the the creative who wants a little bit more performance and a lot of battery life and speaking of that battery life in some of my light gaming playing Street of Rage and then using the laptop on a regular basis I got about 12 hours of battery maybe 12 12.5 in total which is not up to the 17.5 of course but that was of course me gaming as well now I will point out that you guys should definitely check out my buddy you know the Unlocker he is gonna have his of course his battery life test where you guys will see how he performs in his day in the life so check out that video to see what he's actually getting for streaming streaming video on this device straight all the way so where does the surface book 3 land I think this is a unique device that is built for creating I like its functionality I like the performance that I got I do wish it was a little lighter and I also wish it came with the S pen as well especially just thinking of the creative nature that this device brings to the table in terms of gaming you can definitely game with this if you're picking it up the 1660 Ti definitely works well and if you pack in the 16 and 32 gigabytes of RAM you should be good should be good and you shouldn't have to worry if you're worried about price then it might not be for you but I think this falls in a certain segment I like the power performance I would like to see an AMD variant in the future because we're seeing some really cool things from AMD and I'll also like to see something maybe a little thinner and a little change to that design as well with some more USB Type-C board so they're things to improve but they're things that work out well we'll have to see what Microsoft delivers in the future but if you think about picking up the device we'll leave a link for you down below let me know your thoughts on the Surface Book 3 do you like it is this something that fits your work style or your your home style is this something that you might pass leave your thoughts down below otherwise don't forget to like share subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment