No issues with the original SB1 now? ie intel solved etc?

They sell a lot cheaper than the SB2, clearly no DGPU, which doesnt worry me much as a lot of notebooks have been missing this, also no quad core.

But for the price, especially used ones being less than 1/3 of the SB2.

But I know they had problems with black outs and weird display issues, which were due to intel drivers.

Has all that been resolved?

 

Yeah the sleep of death has been fixed to my knowledge.

 

Original SurfaceBook is a steal IMO. With the performance base, it regularly runs about $500-600 cheaper than Surfacebook 2's used. The 965M is pretty similar to a 1050 so really the only thing you are missing is USBC and quad core CPUs. Whether thats worth $500-600 is up to you but its not worth it to me.

 

Yes I have my eye on a promotional events one, technically not new but not used either. 965m.

Im looking around $1200USD. The SB2 here is $4k for the i7 model.

 

The 940m dgpu model went for $1k USD, the 965m model is going to be too much, about $1500USD.

You can buy the non dGPU SB1 model for $1k brand new with a yr warranty. I think if you arent after extreme performance surely thats a good buy? I mean the XPS13 doesnt have a GPU and the MBP13 cheekily has called itself a pro for 10 years with a dual core and NO gpu. I actually sold mine and wont go back to MBP13 until it gets a refresh and they put some pro hardware in it professionals can use.

The SB1 at least has a gorgeous sensitive touch screen which is very nice to work with the new 4096ppt wacom pen. So it doesnt have a GPU, it means slower batch file photo processing and premierre pro. But I dont do batch file pics and I dont do video. It still last 15 hours off the battery. It still looks quality.