After I had my Surface Book repaired and it was good for years. I followed my own advice and tried not to use the machine while charging to keep the temperature down. As the years went by with no issues, I got lax and it was starting to show the beginning signs of the problem. It wasn't bad and the display wasn't bulging, but what did happen was the battery in the display went bad. I wasn't going to put more money into repairing it this time so I bought a new laptop. Obviously I avoided buying one of the Microsoft products this time. I may try to fix it myself now that it's not being used, but it sure seems like a little more difficult than I want to take on. And it will just happen again in the future. The unit still works when plugged in, so it's still functional if I need it for something. That Surface Book was such a great idea and a nice product if not for the battery failure mode. They should have implemented a temperature sensor to throttle back the charging function when the unit gets too hot. The...

To avoid having this problem in the future, I try to avoid charging the Surface Book when I’m using it. When I shut it down I usually recharge it at that time. I have been using my replacement Surface Book for two years now without any display issues.

My Surface Book display started with the yellow spots, then the display started to detach from the frame. I noticed the display frame was getting warped. After about three weeks I couldn't detach the display from the keyboard and discovered that removing power from the keyboard would shut down the computer. I figured out how to manually remove the display and discovered the display battery was not charging and when power was removed from the display only, it would shut down. It would work on battery, but since it wouldn't charge I didn't do that. It was at that point I sent it in for repair. It was an expensive repair, but I now have a like new Surface Book. My theory was that the fan failed in the display (I'm assuming there is at least one) and the display would overheat leading to all the problems. I can't prove that as I never got a report on what was wrong, but I do know my display would get very hot to the touch at times.