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hey how's it going Dave 2d here so Microsoft launched their surface laptop the other day and I think it's a really cool product I'm personally very interested in it I think it looks awesome I think they're going to sell lots of them but I think there's some potential problems with this product and I wanted to go through them with you in case you're interested in purchasing one so the first thing is the design I really like the design I think a lot of the interest about this product comes from the fact that it looks as good as it does because let's be honest if this thing was super ugly it would be a much less exciting product but it's really good-looking so here we are it's one hand OpenAL the keyboard and trackpad look really promising but the most interesting thing about this product is the fact that they're using this Alcantara material on the keyboard deck and if you're unfamiliar with it it's this fabric type material it's a synthetic fabric that Microsoft uses on their signature keyboard on the surface pro product and it feels and looks really inviting to use it's much more durable than what you would imagine a cloth type of material to be but that being said it's not metal it's not plastic so there's going to be somewhere over time now I've seen Alcantara keyboards that looked really good after six months and I've also seen some that looked really worn down after six months so I don't know it's going to vary from person to person but one thing's for sure you can't just replace the keyboard the way that you could on the surface pro because if you really wanted to and yet a gunky surface pro type cover you could just buy a new one for a couple hundred bucks this is built into the laptop it's kind of like fused onto the keyboard deck I don't think it'll be as easy to just replace that okay let's talk about the operating system these come with Windows 10 s and if you want to the first year you can upgrade it for free to Windows 10 Pro after that first year or after 2017 it's going to become a $50 upgrade so the biggest difference between Windows 10 and whizz 10s is that 10s can't run any kind of executable program so any kind of like dot exe file you can't run it there's not even a command prompt this is crippling to a lot of users there's no steam there's no Chrome you're going to be stuck with Microsoft edge and you're going to be running Bing for the search engine it's streamlined and it focuses on the core of Windows and I think for system administrators it's a lot easier to get something like this deployed and for the user you're getting a better battery life you're getting a faster experience like a more optimized experience but it's a very limited experience so if you're using just regular applications that you're used to you're gonna have to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro ok looking at the hardware the base model comes with four gigs of ram and that is tight I really feel like they should put in eight gigs and the argument is that for most people that are interested in this base model select the university student that doesn't have a lot of heavy computer tasks for gigs should be enough especially you're not using Chrome so if you're just web browsing editing PDF documents typing up Word documents just doing very productivity focused tasks then yes four gigs should be enough but the thing is if you ever want to do some of this a little bit more RAM intensive you can't upgrade that now I understand they had to do this to create the price structure that they wanted but I'm just not a fan of that base configuration in terms of USB ports we're looking at a single-use PA and no use PC ports and the thought process behind that is that right now their target demographic of students is a predominantly use ba market so thumb drive external hard drives mice they're just all type-a and I understand that but this is a device that's supposed to last multiple years so you won't be upgrading this thing or you won't even think about upgrading the same for like two three maybe five years and in that amount of time you specie will be everywhere why not give it to them now so that people have access to universal charging to universal display output it's so weird that they're using USB a and they even had UCC ports on prototypes we were so close okay next up is pricing even the base surface laptop isn't meant for high school or grade school kids it's meant for university students and up and when I'm looking at pricing that base model feels a little expensive and I understand there's a premium with the awesome build quality the design the amazing screen the material choices and very nice-looking but in 2017 you're just not getting good long-term value with four gigs of RAM the mid and top-tier models seem to be priced well or at least in line with the competitors it's just the base model that I'm concerned about but one thing to note if you are students you're able to apply your student discount to these you're going to get about ten percent off so the base models at nine hundred dollars us the display panels are awesome with basically 100% srgb gama and they're all individually calibrate at the factory for color accuracy the 3x2 aspect ratio I mean this is great for tablets because you get a little bit more usable space vertically but on a laptop only device I would prefer to 16 by 9 screen just for consistency for other devices more importantly though even though the screen supports the surface pen writing or drawing on a vertical surface like a laptop screen is not an enjoyable experience during the presentation Pano's had to hold the screen to annotate on it but I feel like this product wasn't designed around using it with a surface pen if you want to write or draw frequently I would get a surface book or a surface pro instead so I want to talk about some things that I think Microsoft did right just kind of close this off they're running PCIe drives for storage so those are going to be really fast way faster than the ones on the surface 3 the CPU selection is good that top end I 7 actually has an iris + graphics chip I'm really glad they went with that instead of the more common 7500 you the battery looks promising they're claiming 14 and a half hours running Windows 10s I'm assuming but the way that I use my computer is probably 10 11 hours which is still really long overall I think this is a great product despite having a couple concerns I think Microsoft did a really good job on this thing so I will be doing a full review when I get the unit in if there's stuff that you guys want me to kind of take a look at in particular let me know I'm going to be spending more time in a comment section of this video just because I know a lot of you guys are students and you might have an opinion I'd love to talk to you guys about it let me know questions comments I'm going to be down there for quite a bit in this video hope you guys enjoyed this thumbs to be like that something we loved it I'll see you guys next time