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hey guys is Austin this is the new surface laptop is it worth it so be sure to Microsoft we're hooking us up with the surface laptop early now this is not a sponsored video but they're cool enough to let us take a look at it before it actually goes on sale so this is the mid spec model what I'm really curious to find out is what is the service laptop like to use so Microsoft has been making services for quite a while but they definitely never done a laptop quite like this there's the surface pro which is much more like a tablet and there's the surface both which is kind of a laptop but it also is detachable and it's a little bit unwieldy whereas this is a proper honest-to-goodness laptop did I just say honest-to-goodness inside we get the power adapter so what's cool of this one and something that actually I think that more people should do is it actually has a USB port on the adapter so only can you charge your surface but you also plug something like your phone in this is the laptop itself my first impression of the surface laptop is that this feels like a really high-end piece of hardware so unlike previous surfaces which were made out of magnesium this is all aluminium it feels awesome on top of that when you look on the inside you'll see that instead of having a metal sort of cover for the keyboard it's actually lined in this ultimate are of fabric finish what this allows Microsoft to do is offer some really cool-looking colors so this is burgundy and I've got to say it looks like no other laptop I've ever tried so let me inside you still get that same Alcantara but in the red it really does pop this Alcantara finish does feel nice but I'm curious how it will hold up over a few months or years of use I can definitely imagine with your palm sitting on the rest all the time that maybe you could get a little bit stained or dirty now that's not a huge problem with the surface pro 4 keyboard which of course you could just take off and replace with something else where it was something like this it's pretty much stuck on I don't think there's any way of taking that not definitely not coming out there for comparison I've been spending a lot of time with the LG Graham lately now this is a very lightweight laptop which is nice and that is definitely not the case with the surface laptop now that's not exactly a huge downside that extra half actually does make this feel like a very premium product but it also is going to way a little bit extra in your back one slight issue with the surface hardware are the ports so on the right side all we have is the magnetic service connector which is mostly used for charging or dropping it on the dock around the other side the only other ports we have are a headphone jack mini display port as well as USB 3 there's no USB see there's no thunderbolt and there's only that single USB port it will be nice if there's a little bit more especially on a high-end laptop like this the big elephant in the room with the surface laptop though is Windows 10s so unlike the standard full version of Windows 10 that most laptops come with this guy is running the S Edition and what this means is that it cannot run any apps they're not from inside the Windows Store however say you want download some third-party apps such as Google Chrome too bad it's not going to be in the store to be fair there are a fair few apps that are available in the store such as Netflix Facebook and VLC but the issue is say you need to install some weird piece of hardware that needs a program to set it up well that wouldn't work on Windows 10s unless that driver is going to automatically install once you plug the device in you're out of luck now I get the general idea of having windows 10 s as an option so say you're going to be buying a budget laptop and to save a few bucks they decide to use the S version instead of Windows 10 same thing goes first say if you're a school you want to make sure that the kids aren't installing random malware exe that's fine that's great however this is a $1,300 laptop the idea that I can't even install Google Chrome on is a big issue the good news is you can't upgrade the service laptop to full Windows 10 Pro for free the only problem is you can only do that until the end of the year after that it will cost you $50 to do the good thing is the upgrade from 10 s to pro actually only took about like three minutes and now we have the full copy of Windows on the laptop inside the surface laptop has fairly standard specs so this is the mid tier version which will run you $12.99 and for that you get a seventh generation Core i5 processor a gigabytes of memory as well as the 256 gig SSD I feel like I'm going to keep making this comparison but that's literally the exact same expect as you get with the LG gram which coincidentally cost a couple hundred dollars left this guy is rocking a 13.5 inch display with a weird resolution of 20 256 by 1504 what that means is it actually is a really nice display not only is it sharp it has really nice color contrast viewing angles all the standard stuff and stop it all off it's a touchscreen hey guys is Austin my voice might be gone but what is this is the MacBook Air what also isn't are the speakers this is she sounds pretty good the keyboard also is pretty solid so it does feel very similar to what you would find on the surface pro 4 type cover but that's not really a bad thing now with a Windows 10 laptop generally I want to use the touchscreen more than the trackpad but as far as Windows trackpads go I don't really have a lots can play about it all here alright so we are up and running with overwatch now this is definitely not a gaming PC but you can't play some lighter titles and here we're running a 900 key on low it is usable however luckily we have a professional MLG overwatch player named savage Kent the framerate is not ideal I mean we're we're hitting like frame rates that are definitely like usable but if you're especially taking overwatch very seriously I find it really hard to like what what I'm getting out of this laptop oh my god once you upgrade windows 10s the service laptop is a solid piece of hardware however the value is just a little bit hard to justify don't get me wrong this is a terrific laptop but for the price you're definitely paying a little bit extra for that nice build quality and for that terrific screen so what do you guys think about the surface laptop let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one