Microsoft's Surface Book to arrive in China on December 24 - Microsoft's first laptop, the Surface Books will be available for pre-order online on December 24 in China and the retail channel in China will also start accepting pre-orders for the devices on January 1, 2016, Microsoft China announced on Friday.

The starting price of Surface Books will be CNY11,088 (US$1,721) and they will adopt Windows 10, an Intel i5 or i7 processor and up to 512GB of solid state drive (SSD). Some models will incorporate Intel's integrated GPU and some Nvidia's discrete graphics card.