Put it on a desk, and it’s mightily tough to open the Surface Book one-handed without it sliding around.
There are other little, but equally perplexing quibbles, too.
It isn’t worryingly unstable, but at this price, I was expecting something rock-solid and engineered to within a micron-thin whisker of perfection – not something with a slightly wobbly hinge. The slight fore and aft wobble in the display adds to the feeling of something being not quite as it should be. I say largely because even here there are negatives to be found. Pick it up, and the cool-to-the-touch metal has a lovely silky texture, and while it weighs in at a fairly chunky 1.5kg, it largely feels like I’d expect a £2,249, 13.5in laptop to feel. Oddly, there’s something about the Surface Book that doesn’t look like a premium-priced slab of metal. Very, very nice-looking plastic – the premium kind – but plastic nonetheless. Although Microsoft’s literature indicates it’s cast from a painstakingly-crafted slab of pale silver magnesium, it initially looked to me as if it were made from fashionably grey plastic.
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