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hey how's it going Dave Judy here so I like the surface pro products I've always liked them I think they're one of the most versatile computers you can get on the market right now like that hold two month or max you're super cool but there's a couple things I've kind of bugged me about the service Pro first is the price point even at the base model it's not particularly cheap and the second thing is that over the years and we're on our fifth generation of surface Pro products right now and they have not improved that much I mean incremental improvements every year but it's still the same kind of product that it has been since day one and there's nothing wrong with it but it's a pretty conservative approach to the whole tune one tablet thing this is the Eve V and to explain what this product is I think we have to go a little bit into story time about a year ago like July 2016 I was approached by this company and said hey Dave you know you do laptops we want to send you this product that's going to be like this laptop killer it's going to be an industry changing product and at the time I was like really you know this like unknown startup company thinks that they can make a product that's going to be a industry changer I mean I'd love to believe it but send me the product when it's done and I will gladly take a look at it but I really didn't think anything would come from it now fast forward one year later and they actually sent me a fully working prototype now keep in mind this is a prototype so I'm not going to do like a full review on it but I just want to go through some of my first impressions of it first the device is very similar to Microsoft Surface it has a kickstand and even the keyboard looks and feels like a surface and I think a lot of people could mistake this for some kind of special edition Microsoft Surface pro very similar the material is aluminum not magnesium like the surface lineup but it's still very solid feeling and it's very well made now one of the coolest things about this product is that the whole concept of it was crowd-sourced so they asked that ton of people I think like a thousand people what they would want in a laptop and this thing was born and one of the things that people really wanted was good io because the surface lineup doesn't have a great port selection so we have to use bas to USB seeds one of them actually being sound about three there's an audio jack that has a good quality amp in there the power switch also has a fingerprint sensor for logging in with Windows hello there's four speakers they sound pretty clean a lot better than I thought they would and the display panel looks nice its high-res individually calibrated at the factory so it's color accurate right on the box and it comes with a stylus for pen input and stuff and it's compatible with Microsoft Surface pens if you want they have a few configurations they're all running wide processors but these guys have done an amazing job cooling it passively so it's fanless this one's running a core m3 and the temperatures stay low even when the boost kicks in I could actually play overwatch at the lowest possible setting that wasn't amazing I was hovering around 35 40 frames per second but totally playable and remember this has a Thunderbolt 3 port so if you want to go nuts you can connect an external GPU for games the keyboard is also really nice and this is actually the first two and one keyboard that I've used that has RGB backlighting you can switch between a few colors typing is super comfortable the trackpad is good it's the glass surface with when it's precision drivers the inputs on this device are really good but the best part is you can remove it and this RGB backlit keyboard suddenly becomes a wireless keyboard it's got bluetooth 4.2 in it and it's got a small battery in it so you can control this thing remotely so if you have it connected to a projector or for like presentations or whatever that's a pretty cool feature now the battery in the main device 48 watt hours it's bigger than the surface pro 4 from last year it's similar in size to the new surface pro from 2017 the evie is heavier by around 100 grams or so I think a lot of the weight comes from the beefier heatsink and I'm not going to lie I think the extra weight is noticeable but even if you hold it one-handed it's an extremely comfortable tablet to hold now the cameras on this things aren't as good as the surface pro so if image quality on your tablet is important to you then this is probably not the best product for you another thing the stylus has less pressure levels but for me these are things I don't care too much about in the tablet there's all these features about the EEV that are pretty cool so like the fingerprint sensor the RGB keyboard symbol 3 the average guy that walks into the Microsoft Store like the business guy or whatever that goes in there looking for a two-in-one tablet they don't care about these features so Microsoft isn't going to put these features into their tablets anytime soon but these are the type of features that you guys and myself included like the enthusiast level guys we like this stuff and this is the type of stuff that makes this product special now the pricing of it is very fair it starts at $800 which is the same price as the base price of the new surface pro but the eve product includes a keyboard and you're getting 8 gigs of ram instead of 4 so I think you're getting a solid for the money now just to be clear I'm not saying that the surface pro is garbage and compare since that's not at all I think the surface pro is a fantastic product and it's a good fit a better fit for some people than this but if you're in the market for a tuned one I would say hold off on a purchase of the surface pro that's what you're getting at let this thing come out in the market let it kind of proliferate let the reviews come out because I think that for a lot of people this is a better fit than the surface pro you're getting better value for the money and it's just a more kind of enthusiast level product than the surface pro is ok hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it I'll see you guys next time