Microsoft handed us the minimally updated Surface Book with Performance Base. At a glance, it looks just like the excellent laptop/tablet hybrid Microsoft introduced a year ago. I lauded that one ...

An earlier convertible Windows laptop computer from Microsoft. Introduced in 2015, the Surface Book screen detached like a hybrid tablet. However, the screen could also flip over like a ...

Those would be the HP EliteBook x360, which is brand new this month, and the Microsoft Surface Book i7 (aka the Surface Book with Performance Base), which has been on the market for just a few months.

Whatever the case, Panay’s product fervor is infectious and, when he explains why he’s so excited about Microsoft’s new Surface Book 2, you believe him. SEE ALSO: Microsoft just buried ...