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That anandtech review is gold. Thanks for posting that.

Well I just dropped the hammer on an i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB storage. This is going to be a long few weeks...

Ok, so I went back to the store and the model I tested was indeed NOT an m3. They had it labelled as such but in the system settings it showed i5 4GB. I have not heard the fan kick on on this device in over 1.5 hrs. total of hammering on it. That doesn't mean it wasn't on... I simply may not...

It is interesting also to see the Geekbench results for the Surface Book. Surface Book i5 is comparable to the Surface Pro 4 i5. There is also a listing of Surface Book i7 which shows 3577 single-core and 7401 multi-core. The i7-6600U being about a 15% increase on the Geekbench vs. the i5...

So roughly a 30% increase 3DMark/PCMark from i5SP3 to i5SP4, in line with what MSFT said at the event. 2 questions: - We need to see the i7 benchmarks as MSFT was claiming 80% increase i7 to i7 at the release event. - Is anyone able to get this i5 or i7 to throttle after repeated runs...

Yep. It was Engadget I saw this on as well. Someone on youtube captured it happening:

...at the Best Buy. I'm more interested in the i5 but this is what they had. (Edit... this actually turned out to be an i5 4GB as noted in comments below, the store simply had it labelled incorrectly) The keyboard is amazing. It's so much better. Compared to the new keyboards on the new thin...