If you don't use a pen, a more reliable new laptop would be vastly preferable to buying an old Surface Book 2. With Surface Pro, it was great handwriting notes on Onenote, and then easily re-attaching the keyboard to type something (versus the clunky, slow and temperamental process with Surface Book 2). If you are bringing it to school (if you use a Pen for OneNote), a Surface Pro for me was best in terms of portability, performance and versatility, despite having a smaller screen than a laptop. It's also more recently having a bit of trouble with OBS, with the graphics drivers. Now, I keep it in one place, and it's fine as a stationary machine, but if I had wanted that, I could have purchased a decent desktop or laptop for a lesser price. So the two main reasons I bought it didn't pan out. Even when it worked, the tablet screen would run hot or run out of battery quickly.
On the Surface Book, issues arise with reattaching when the screen is taken out. So buying a used Surface Book 2 is a bad idea for the battery issues alone.įor the purpose of notetaking by pen, Surface Pro is way more convenient. Now, the battery life is only about 4 hours. Within a year and a half, the battery life had degraded to the point where I needed to bring along the AC adapter every time. In hindsight, I should have purchased either another laptop or my own Surface Pro.
I also wanted to write on the screen with my pen since at the time, my work had issued me a Surface Pro. I had chosen the Surface Book over other laptops because I was hoping to bring a more powerful machine on overnights, and still have the enhanced performance with portability. The first one kept crashing the first week, so Microsoft replaced it. I bought my Surface Book 2 two years ago.
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