Maybe I missed it before, but this is the first article that I've read that specifies the battery split between the base and the screen:
> "The top gets four hours of battery life, and the bottom gets eight."
> "The top gets four hours of battery life, and the bottom gets eight."
edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3npv7p/microsoft_sur...? has multiple mentions of the 3h "screen only" version ([e.g.](https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3npv7p/microsoft_sur...), I'm guessing it was made explicit during the unveiling or just after.