Microsoft Surface Book 2 review: beauty and brawn, but with limits

The best match for Microsoft's new Surface Book 2 is Apple's MacBook Pro. Providing an answer to Apple's option, but with Windows-specific strengths like a touchscreen and detachable display, is really why the Surface Book 2 exists. The new 15-inch model goes one step further in matching and even beating Apple's latest MacBook Pro lineup on paper. It's a hefty and powerful laptop just like the original. It's also a tablet, thanks to that detachable display. Its high-end graphics card and support for Xbox controllers also make it a miniature Xbox One for gaming on the go. Believe it or not, the Surface Book 2 is the first portable Surface computer that you can actually play the latest games on, but it's more complicated than just that.