{"id":121579,"date":"2017-10-24T15:03:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121579"},"modified":"2017-10-24T15:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T13:04:31","slug":"the-microsoft-surface-book-2-is-not-coming-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/121579-the-microsoft-surface-book-2-is-not-coming-to-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft Surface Book 2 is not coming to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/devices\/surface-book-2\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surface Book 2<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0will not be available in South Africa through Microsoft SA.<\/p>\n<p>The company told MyBroadband that the new\u00a0\u201cpowerhouse performance\u201d laptop will not officially be available in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s new laptop was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/233587-microsoft-surface-book-2-powerhouse-performance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>launched last week<\/strong><\/a>, and is available in a 15-inch or 13.5-inch form factor.<\/p>\n<p>The PCs are available with 8th-gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processors, Nvidia GTX 1050 or 1060 discrete graphics, and up to 16GB RAM.<\/p>\n<p>The laptops also feature PixelSense touch displays with resolutions up to\u00a03,240 x 2,160, up to 1TB SSD storage, and USB-C ports.<\/p>\n<p>The Surface Book 2 starts at $1,499 for the 13.5-inch model, and $2,499 for the 15-inch model.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Hardware in SA<\/h3>\n<p>News of the Surface Book 2 not coming to South Africa may not surprise hardware enthusiasts who want to lay their hands on Microsoft\u2019s PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Previous versions of the Surface Book, including the Surface tablet PC launched in 2012, were never touted by Microsoft SA as coming to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is not oblivious to potential demand for its hardware locally, however. In 2015,\u00a0Microsoft SA managing director Zoaib Hoosen said they were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/145827-microsoft-surface-book-and-surface-pro-4-will-they-ever-come-to-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>looking at launching<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the Surface Pro tablet locally.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also selling its latest gaming console \u2013 the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/232069-xbox-one-x-south-african-pricing-and-launch-date.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Xbox One X<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"324451660\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233593 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split-640x320.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split-640x320.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Surface-Pro-2-Split.jpg 900w\" alt=\"Surface Pro 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/234086-the-mac-mini-is-not-dead.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Mac Mini is not dead<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Microsoft\u00a0Surface Book 2\u00a0will not be available in South Africa through Microsoft SA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":121581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[91,2163,25247],"class_list":["post-121579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-microsoft","tag-south-africa","tag-surface-book-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}