Microsoft discounts the Surface Book 2 by up to $300, including the 15-inch model

Microsoft rarely offers any kind of discounts on the 15-inch Surface Book 2, but starting today, you can finally get one for $300 off of its original price, making it start at $2,199.

Rich Woods former Senior Editor for North America Neowin @TheRichWoods · Aug 6, 2018 11:20 EDT · Hot! with 5 comments

Ever since Microsoft announced the Surface Book 2 last October, the new 15-inch model has sort of stood on its own. It only comes with a Core i7 and a dedicated GPU, giving it a much higher barrier of entry than its 13.5-inch sibling, which is offered with a seventh-gen Core i5 and no dedicated GPU for just $1,199.

One might have expected for Microsoft to lower the barrier of entry by releasing a Core i5 model of the 15-inch variant, or at least discounting it once in a while. But these things really haven't happened, until today, as you can currently get up to $300 off of a Surface Book 2, including both the 13.5- and 15-inch models.

Here are the deals for the Surface Book 2:

Size	CPU	RAM	Storage	Old price	New price	Discount
13.5-inch	7th-gen Core i5	8GB	128GB	$1,199	$1,199	-
13.5-inch	7th-gen Core i5	8GB	256GB	$1,499	$1,299	$200
13.5-inch	8th-gen Core i7	8GB	256GB	$1,999	$1,699	$300
13.5-inch	8th-gen Core i7	16GB	512GB	$2,499	$2,199	$300
13.5-inch	8th-gen Core i7	16GB	1TB	$2,999	$2,699	$300
15-inch	8th-gen Core i7	16GB	256GB	$2,499	$2,199	$300
15-inch	8th-gen Core i7	16GB	512GB	$2,899	$2,599	$300
15-inch	8th-gen Core i7	16GB	1TB	$3,299	$2,999	$300

There are some big differences in power between the lowest end model and the highest end one. For one thing, there's a big performance jump between the seventh-gen Core processors and the eighth-gen chips. The new generation is quad-core, whereas the last gen was dual-core, so you're getting a lot more out of the Core i7 model.

Also, all Core i7 models come with a dedicated GPU in the base, while the i5 models do not. The 13.5-inch Book 2 comes with a 2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, while the 15-inch comes with a substantially more powerful 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060.

If you want to check out the Surface Book 2, you can find it here.