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hey guys Boston and day I'm trying to new surface pro so big shout to Microsoft for inviting us out here all the way to Shanghai and this is the the lineup so this is not the surface pro five instead they're dropping the numbers and going with a much more simple and easy to remember new surface pro name but what's cool is pretty much all the stuff that you expect out of the surface pro is still here so you still have access to the type cover you do have a new surface pen but most importantly this is sort of the most advanced tablet this side of an iPad so there's actually a lot new with the surface pro even though it actually doesn't look all that different so one of the big things is they've actually refined the design a fair bit so even though it's very very similar on the outside they've smooth a lot of the edges down it's a little bit lighter a little bit thinner it does feel nice in the hand while the real improvements have been on the inside so those are now rocking Intel cable eight processors so this particular model is outfitted with the i7 7660 you there's also Core M 3 and Core i5 model what's interesting is the core i5 model actually is completely painless so you can imagine that while it looks pretty much the exact same on the outside it is completely passively cooled not exactly like this is going to be a loud device to begin with but it's really cool to have a proper Core i5 without a fan so with those new chips come better performance so they're claiming around 20% better performance which probably is a little bit optimistic what should be a big improvement is the battery life so the new surface pro 4 is rated for up to 13 hours of use now that's compared to nine hours on the previous generation and that is a big big bump they've achieved this in a couple different ways first of all it has a bigger battery which is always helpful those KB Lake chips are a little bit more efficient and Windows 10 creator update is a little bit more well optimized for the surface now this is actually a big jump not sure it doesn't quite match these 14 hours of the surface laptop we're talking about a device you can pretty confidently take with you all day without needing to charged up something that hasn't really changed are the ports so you still have a single USB 3.0 type-a I mean a display port as well as the magnetic surface connector for charging that's not really a huge deal but it's bizarre to see a mini display port on a brand new device in 2017 it really would be nice if it had USB type C or even Thunderbolt 3 for this price speaking of price the new service Pro starts at 799 dollars which is about the same as the last gen however it no longer comes with the surface pin add the Box now to be fair this is a upgraded version of the surface pen but if you want it's going to run you an additional $99 the new surface pen has four times more levels of sensitivity which is nice if you're actually talented unlike me what I can't tell is there's a lot less lag here so it pretty much feels almost one-to-one it's not quite perfect but it is a big improvement over previous surfaces now what's cool is this 10 actually is going to be compatible other surface models it's going to be pretty much ready to go add the Box 15 new surface pro the kickstand now goes almost entirely flat which is nice so they call this the studio mode but of course if you want a fully flat tablet you can just you know not use the kickstand and that's one of the cool things about the new surface pro well sure there aren't a lot of huge new upgrades it's a salt update there's a lot of small things that do add up so if we drop it on the tide cover you'll see this is a little bit different from the previous generation so it now has the new Alcantara touch that is very similar to what you'll find on the surface laptop the keyboard is not bad at all it's maybe not my favorite I think a lot of laptop keyboards are a little bit better but you have to keep in mind that this is built into a cover which is easily detachable it's fully magnetic and honestly doesn't feel bad so one of the cool things about this new tight cover is it does have a fair bit of travel I believe they quoted something like one point two millimeters which is a little bit more than on some certain other macro I mean laptops there's like an entire meeting right here ok so I got a little loud time to bust out the big guns something interesting is that Microsoft repeatedly called the surface pro a laptop and not a tablet which is interesting because it's exactly as much of a tablet as it was before as not only does it not come with the pen it also does not come with the keyboard so yeah the pro will also be available with an LTE option in a couple months which is nice as it does help to differentiate it between the other surface products as you can see on the table behind me there are now quite a few so the surface book is a little bit of an oddball it's definitely the most powerful laptop that Microsoft selves it's also just quirky and it doesn't close all the way and it's very expensive so I feel like a little bit more of a nice sort of thing the serpent's laptop I think is much more interesting because it really does feel like a major attack on stuff like the MacBook Air it's around the same price and I would argue that the hardware is much much nicer which leads the surface pro as a sort of tablet sort of laptop sort of not sure where it's at my life thing honestly for the surface line to have started with the tablets it feels like it's kind of gotten to a point where I'm not really sure well if they can take it from here and that isn't that necessarily a bad thing I think a lot of people really do like the surface pro line but with stuff like the surface laptop which kind of does the laptop thing better it's weird I'm not really totally sure who should really be picking this up we have options like this or that or this or that the new surface pro will be available on June 15th the same day as the surface laptop so let me know in the comments below what you guys think about this and I will catch you in the next one