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what's up everyone John Brenner from TechnoBuffalo here at the first look for you at the brand the new Microsoft Surface two gone is the arty name what's here that was a brand new magnesium color improve specs some improvements to the kickstand and all kinds of other goodness under the hood and on the screen let's go ahead take a first look at the surface to so here we've got the surface to you got to fight the urge to say the surface RT two gone is the RT name but what lives on is the operating system it is Windows 8.1 RT be able to get this guy in two configurations either 449 it's for a 32 like we've got here or 549 for 64 I should say that this is pre-production hardware than Microsoft sent us always said the hardware is exactly the same as a retail but the operating system will get an upgrade once the final RT 8.1 comes out yet again just that little disclaimer so there's a lot of things different here in the surface to I think much more externally than there's a disservice Pro to the big difference look at it on the back it looks great which is what Microsoft is just calling magnesium it's that same vapor mag material which feels like aluminum but has better anticipation I suppose leaf but it comes in gray also like the black you've got that option to you now I have the surface logo there instead of the windows flag but I kind of like seeing another big difference here is the kickstand so I've always liked at the kickstand extended all the way across that was great for putting it on your lap but it was sort of hard to use at that angle so Microsoft said we will listen to you consumer and they gave it boom another angle which is much easier not only to use on your lap but also when you are at a desk it's a little bit thinner as well then the outgoing Surface RT this one's 0.35 to 0.37 on the outgoing version it weighs a little less twenty three point four ounces versus the 24 ounces but it feels much lighter and it feels you know very different to use also being powered this is now a Tegra 4 process opposed to Tegra 3 and is a huge speed difference here whether you're playing video 1080p content back you don't have to worry at all about me Lag that we saw before it's at 1.7 gigahertz Tegra 4 chip with 2 gigs of ram so there's plenty of storage here yeah we have an upgraded 5 megapixel camera living there on the back we've got a 3.5 megapixel sensor that lives right there on the front a Bluetooth 4.0 supposedly way better battery life to it set up to 10 hours of video playback or 7 to 15 days of idle life which is really nice I do get expendable storage here via micro sd overall the experience has been very positive I'm going to need to use it I'm put it through its paces what you're not gonna have though is a full desktop operating system so your legacy apps won't work you still have a desktop but all that's really gonna run here is Microsoft Office which will come pre-installed including Outlook now which is quite nice one of the big updates that we saw a Microsoft announced the surface 2 and the surface pro 2 are things like this these brand-new accessories what you're looking at here is the type cover which is gonna be $129 it's got actual physical tees it's thinner than the outgoing type cover it now has a felt key and track pad here and backlit and like all accessories for the surface most of them it snaps into very satisfactory noise I'll go ahead and restart that one later other accessories that are gonna be available there's batteries there's a type cover which does not have the physical buttons it's all touch with improved sensors and also backlight cost you $80 there's some DJ accessories there's wireless accessories fun to use this wirelessly in all kinds of other stuff not much reason to do that though it's got a USB 3.0 port so you can plug in really whatever you like go ahead and pull that out we'll continue our tour you've got that one windows button which is gonna take you right to the desktop you now got that Windows Start button in the bottom left which will take you right to the new Start menu here on the left hand side you've got a speaker 3.5 millimeter headset jack volume up and down on the right hand side and that's where your power connection is going to be a little bit of revised power connector there as well make it easier to snap in there's our USB 3.0 port there is mini display and underneath here is where your expandable storage is going to live it's going to throw in a microSD card you can go ahead and do so right there it's kind of hidden if you don't know where to look overall the build quality is outstanding I was ever the issue of Microsoft Surface devices how about is gonna sort of fit in the pantheon of tablets of course versus the iPad the onslaught of Android tablets Nexus 7 Nexus 10 is yet to be seen but I will use it put into its paces and let you guys know what I think any questions or things you want to see be sure to let me know until then I am John Britton 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