The design and design of Microsoft 's first notebook PC "Surface Book" was thus developed

Microsoft is the first notebook PC at the Windows 10 device announcement meeting held on October 6, 2015Surface BookI suddenly announced. The terminal which is also the first notebook PC of the Surface series can also be used as a tablet by detaching the screen and characteristic hinges are drawing attention, "There was nothing wrong with its contents" That's why the news mediaMashablePeople inside are interviewing the developers of Surface Book quickly.

Inside the creation of the Microsoft Surface Book
http://mashable.com/2015/10/07/microsoft-surface-book-inside-story/

If you read the following article you can tell what kind of terminal Microsoft's first notebook PC "Surface Book" is. It is a terminal that is a competing product such as MacBook, but a terminal that can also be used as a 13.5 inch tablet by separating the screen from the keyboard rather than just a notebook PC. There are plenty of interesting notebook PCs, such as stylus pen that makes you think "is smoother than handwriting", special hinge mechanism, GPU mounted on both tablet and keyboard, and beautiful magnesium enclosure.

Surface Book is a Windows 10-equipped notebook terminal "2 times faster than the MacBook Pro" - GIGAZINE


Mashable interviewed is Panos Panay, leader of Microsoft's Windows device development department, and Ralf Groene, design chief. Mr. Groene seems to be a designer who devised Surface Book's "structure in which the keyboard and display do not contact each other even if the display is closed and closed".


Panay says, "Someone may ask me" Why is Surface Book not a tablet? "This is absolutely not a tablet.Surface Book is a clipboard.Surface Book is a clipboard We will be totally different from terminals, "he emphasizes that Surface Book is totally different from any terminal that has existed in the world so far. Moreover, users who use Surface Book also comment that about 80% of the use time will be used as a notebook PC, it is said that it is not a tablet but a notebook PC to the last.

Surface Book can be a tablet or a notebook PC, but Microsoft does not emphasize that it is a hybrid terminal of tablet and notebook PC using words such as "2 in 1" when describing the terminal. Instead, Panay calls Surface Book "clipboard". For that reason Panay says, "Clipboard is used to write something, read and learn something, do not you want to make that clipboard more productive?", Reading and writing, what It is said that Surface Book is a form evolving clipboard that can also be used for.

Designer Ralf Groene (left) and Panos Panay (right)


The design of Surface Book seems to be started from black cardboard with yellow tape. Mr. Panay reveals that development of Surface Book began from a sudden word of Groene's "Hello Panos, let's make a book."

Although it is just a black cardboard, Surface Book started from here.


A couple of years have passed since a single word that is closer to such a whim, and the design team will make a black mockup. Compared with the final Surface Book, this mockup seems to be understood that it is almost completely different except for the "rough size" and "the display can be opened and closed". "We have a common vision of" evolving books to the next dimension ", Mr. Panay says.

After that, Mr. Groene brought a crazy idea "let's make the screen detachable" to the project, and Panay agrees with this. To the engineers who are participating in the project, "I will create a new category that makes me want to remove the display with the best screen to do reading with the best notebook PC ever," Surface " It is something we should make and we are going to reform together.

The team was aiming to develop a notebook PC that took over the DNA of the Surface series, but I found it hard to fix the screen at various angles with the screen and keyboard connection similar to conventional Surface problem. Mr. Groene's design team seems to have been working on this problem for six months, and a solution to install a hinge at the end of it is popped out.

Prototype of hinge part of Surface Book lined up in large quantity. Hinge is Groene's favorite design, it seems to be called "kiss" in the project.


And, in order to attach the hinge and fix the display at various angles, the keyboard part of the base needs to be heavy enough to support the display part firmly. However, in reality there seems to be not much difference in weight between the display part and the keyboard part, the weight is compared not with pounds (1 pound approximately 450 g) but with an ounce (1 ounce about 28 g).


In order to make the tablet stand alone, it is absolutely necessary to pack many elements in the upper display part. However, as it is necessary to secure the display firmly in the form of a laptop PC, the project seems to have fought hard with "where and what to load". Meanwhile, the structure born by the cooperation of the hardware design team of Surface Book and the software development team of Windows 10 is "to have separate GPUs on tablet part and keyboard part".

About this structure, Mr. Panay says, "This kind of structure has not been seen so far, this product will be one in the base and the second GPU will be the first terminal installed in the tablet part," It is the structure born by the software development team and the hardware design team working closely in the development, and it is said to be one of the factors to keep weight balance between the tablet and the keyboard.

Other than that, Surface Book's display separation system ......


It also talks about the connector part that connects the tablet and the keyboard.


It is like this when plotting prototypes of Surface Book completed in such a way in chronological order.

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Surface Pro 4 has been decomposed apart and it has been clarified that the liquid cooling system has been improved from Surface Pro 3 which had a problem with heat generation.

Here's How The Improved Liquid Cooling System Works In The Surface Pro 4 - Microsoft News
http://microsoft-news.com/heres-how-the-liquid-cooling-system-works-in-the-surface-pro-4/

Surface Pro 3 installed a liquid cooling system so that the CPU can operate for a long time. The following photograph is a liquid cooling system of Surface Pro 3, and liquid is flowed in a horseshoe type copper heat pipe to cool around the CPU. However, with the Surface Pro 3 system, there was a problem that cooling was insufficient and the heat concentrates on a part of the terminal.


On the other hand, "Surface Pro 4" newly announced at the same time as Surface Book, the liquid cooling system has been improved. In the new liquid cooling system, the coolant vaporized by the cooling parts around the CPU passes through the heat pipe and is sent to the large heat dissipation plate disposed at the lower center of the terminal, after liquefaction, it moves again to the cooling part It seems that circulation for internal cooling has been completed.


The heat dissipation plate will distribute more heat than before, so light work will eliminate the need to operate the cooling fan.