Willing to pay a little extra to get everything you want when it comes to one of those perfectly sleek and stylish 2-in-1 notebooks? You know, those hip, detachable, delicately designed and developed hybrids? Somehow, these guys are pulling off the role of the complete laptop, one that fulfills pretty much all needs. As you may know, the number one role model has to be the Microsoft Surface Pro 4. Considered one of the most popular and well-known Microsoft creations, each version of the Surface Pro has been something to beat. If you want to be considered competition by taking a stab at one of the most versatile laptops in the world, that means your product must be as close to what consumers want as possible.

I guess Dell took a pretty decent stab at being a sufficient 2-in-1 by releasing its XPS 13 at CES this year. The The Dell XPS 13 9365 2-in-1 is similar to the Surface Pro 4 in its high-grade Intel processors, with the same options of 4GB to 16GB of RAM, and similar high storage quantities. When it comes to the Pro 4, consumers must be ready and willing to pull at least $799 or so out of their wallet to own one, while Dell’s product pushes well over a grand, at $999 just to start, up to $1,399, depending on configuration. Now that’s one pretty expensive piece. Good thing is, to be a Microsoft Surface Pro 4 competitor you don’t have to cost an arm and a leg. One of the of the latest, most serious competitors comes from a crowdfunding project pulled together by Shanghai, Chinese hardware maker, Chuwi, who has made a competitive 2-in-1 for much cheaper. That’s already good news.

The object at hand is a serious Surface Pro lookalike, dubbed the Windows 10 SurBook, an incredibly cheap, 12.3-inch tablet, priced at just $300 and up. The campaign, which hasn’t ended yet, has 11 days to go, and is likely to end on a good note, considering the 1,572 backers, who have helped raise over $600,000. That right there, is a successful feat of reaching 1974% of its $30,0000 goal. So let’s dig deeper to see just why this 2-in-1 with an adorable name must be doing something considerably noteworthy to be compared so closely with both Microsoft Surface iterations, as well as iPad Pro models! That $300 option, the cheapest available, comes with 64GB of storage, but most “fans” of the SurBook seem to go with the $400 model, one that includes 128GB of storage, 6GB of memory, a backlit keyboard, and stylus. One of the really cool identifications of this newly-branded PC is its identical display, along with the exact same 2,736 x 1,824 pixel count of its Surface Pro 4 competition.

You’ve got to expect something different going on here, and the processor is the biggest change. For example, the new Surface Pro 4 runs on the higher-end Intel Kaby Lake processors, making its Core m3 model with 4GB of RAM priced at $800 or so. Chuwi’s nearly identical-looking SurBook (what a copycat type of name as well, right?) comes along sporting an Intel Apollo Lake CPU. Besides the obvious difference in processor, Chuwi’s base model starts at 6GB of RAM, while Microsoft’s entry-level Surface Pro 4 has 4GB of RAM. Did I mention yet, both the keyboard and stylus accessory are included with the Chuwi SurBook cost?

As far as battery, the Surface Pro provides an incredible 13.5 hours without a charge, while the SurBook is a “wha-whaaaa” situation, but only in comparison. Although an 8-hour battery is nothing to really complain about, it is another feature its Microsoft competition has in the books. But really, it is not likely many good computer companies have much to offer that truly and absolutely compete with the Surface Book to the point of considering it a trustworthy option; something you could pick up off the shelves and think “Yes, this will not only work, but I’ll completely survive off this”. It’s important competitors like this exist, not only to make the market more interesting, but especially interesting by being a small, unknown company that could very well make a select (at first) group of customers glad they found them.