Memento

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Hi, I'm planning to pre-order the surface book, and I've been searching around for opinions on weather or not I need 16gb of ram, or if 8gb is enough.

I found quite a few post about this kind of thing, but none about the surface book specifically, and most of them were 4+ years old.

I will be using the Surface Book for (hopefully) some gaming, as well as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and others, as well as the usual surfing, steaming, and editing word documents and PDFs for work.

So what do you think? Do I need the ram?
I will be getting the i7 version with the dGPU.
The 16gb ram version also comes with a 512gb SSD, up from the 8gb 256gb ssd version.

Price difference is about $650 for double the ram and ssd storage.

Thanks everyone.
 

csnoob

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Oct 14, 2014
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For £650 it doesn't worth it. I mean you can basically buy another laptop for that money. The surface book looks awesome but soo overpriced, just like apple products. I prefer the xps series from dell. An upgrade to 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD should cost no more than 300£.
 

Memento

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Thanks for the reply, but the price is not a problem for me. I am just trying to decide if I need the extra ram for what I'm doing. Although I agree the price increase is substantial.

 

deathcells

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If price is not a factor then I would say go 16gb. The rate of improvement in cards and ram is just too fast to waste it on small amounts of RAM. Go 16GB and you can run 99% of software you might ever need to run over the next few years... .over the last decade I have skimped too much on components and learnt this lesson the hard way. You won't regret getting the faster setup if you can squeeze out the extra cash. Good luck