Surface Book, Surface Pro 4, Lumia 950 and 950 XL and Band 2

That is Surface Book, which is advertised as ultimate laptop with all the power of laptop with dedicated GPU (dedicated video processing card). My jaw drops when I saw the screen can be detached from keyboard, which means Surface Book is also a tablet! And, the tablet needs to be light, so Microsoft keeps the dedicated GPU and secondary battery in the keyboard. Wow.. This is innovation!

But, do not expect this to be cheap:

i5 128GB 8GBRAM: USD 1499

i5 256GB 8GBRAM: USD 1699

i5 256GB 8GBRAM dGPU: USD 1,899 (This is the power of dedicated GPU)

i7 256GB 8GBRAM dGPU: USD 2,099 

i7 512GB 16GBRAM dGPU: USD 2,699 

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/productID.325716000?icid=en_US_SurfaceBk_cat_mod...

Surface Pro 4 has more variety of price to choose for up to 1TB SSD now, but it seems similar to Surface Pro 3 when it was launched.

Sadly, Lumia 950 and 950 XL does not have enough spotlight, as the guy seems rushing the announcement of this flagship. With such a bombshell announcement of Surface Book, Microsoft should hold another event altogether of Lumia flagship.

And, yes, Band 2, this is more like an upgrade to Band 1, and I guess Microsoft will not advertise so heavily. 

But, I really hope all will be available in Singapore with interesting bundled pricing. Finger crossed.

Shopback

I just recently find this site shopback quite interesting. The idea is that you need to click the link to go to few online sites (e.g. Groupon, Zalora, Courts, etc), and it will give you some cashback vouchers for your purchase, which can be ranged from 1% to 10% or even more for promotion or events.

You can also use this site to find current voucher code or promotion that you will miss out before your purchase. So, it is simple to use, just visit shopback first, search the online merchant you want to go, look for any promo there, and click the link to the merchant website to purchase. For most cases, you will be able to see the cashback under Pending status, which should be redeemable after 1-2 weeks. So far so good although I have not reached minimum amount to redeem yet ($10).

Link: https://www.shopback.sg/r/3PQFRY