I dunno man... They have a history of selling their products at a ridiculous price and people lining up to get them... Look at the iWatch.... not that I am or ever be interested, but I was blown away at the prices of these sonzabit*ches. And that goes for many, many of their other products. This  'pencil' doesn't make me flinch one bit. It's becoming the norm.

If I remember one of my marketing classes from ions ago, pricing is a science in psychology. Throwing an expensive price on object sometimes maintains that 'desire' to want it. Throw a low price on it and it becomes a throw away item and interest fades.

That will be the engineered for phase two. Look, they've already have those roll outs thought through.

Surface Book Prices

128GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB - $1,499.00

256GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB - $1,699.00

256GB / Core Intel i5 - 8GB / dGPU - $1,899.00

256GB / Core Intel i7 - 8GB / dGPU - $2,099.00

512GB / Core Intel i7 - 16GB / dGPU - $2,699.00

Wow, talk about a MASSIVE price jump from 256gb to 512gb. I didn't see anything about the 1 TB. I'm thinking the 1 TB is only for the Surface Pro 4.

I just got back from the Microsoft Store and spending some quality time with both the Surface Pro 4 and the Surface Book. As an artist and gamer, I think I've pretty much eliminated the SP4 from the list and will just get the Surface Book. Now it's a question of which version I want to spend money on. I won't be buying it on release day and will wait to hear from those that actually bought it and have put up reviews on YouTube. I need to hear about any issues the Book itself may have and if there is a middle ground that I can get spec wise that is equal to that of the high end version. If there isn't that much performance improvement between those, then I would feel very comfortable getting the mid-level version and save $800.

As for my in-store review, I really like the Book. The keyboard is great and types way better than the SP3. Yeah, I did end up buying the Surface 3 (not the Pro version). I picked up the lighter version (in Specs and Price) as a placeholder until I arrived at this moment. I've had plenty of time with my Surface 3 and it is a great little machine. Drawing on the tablet has been great. Feels very natural. So, I was very curious to try out using the Pen on the Book this morning and it feels waaaaaaaaay different than what I'm use to. I had heard this new Pen Nib with the Gorilla Glass does more to mimic real-life Pen usage and that perception is 100% spot on. There was plenty of drag while drawing that it immediately made the Surface 3 insanely slick by comparison. If you want the real thing or as something as close to the real thing not involving actual paper, the Surface Book is it.

The design looks very sleek and stylish. The hinge is crazy cool. Flipping the Tablet and putting it into canvas mode (laying on top of the keyboard) was easy and more importantly, comfortable. I will say that the device in laptop mode does feel heavy compared to my Surface 3 usage. It will take some time to get use to the weight of the Surface Book. I think it's around 3lbs, which isn't bad for the device in hand. I didn't get to swap put the Pen Nibs as they didn't have any on hand. There ya have it. Now it's just a waiting game for the reviews to come out......

The one question that I needed answered when I walk into the store was about Keyboard Shortcuts. As you guys know, when you use programs like Photoshop (or any program for that matter), they come with Keyboard Shortcuts. When the Tablet has been reversed and turned around and put into canvas mode, the tablet itself is physically laying flat on the Keyboard with no access to it. They suggested that I'd use the on screen keyboard. I explained that this wasn't an option because it would take up half the screen and become counterproductive using Photoshop or whatever other program I would use. I ask if using a blue tooth keyboard would be an option and he said that would work with no conflicting issues. I didn't get to try that out for myself....but I believe him. So, that's a good sign for me.